Founder, Waterlution

To find a better balance between the needs of people and nature, first we need to focus on what unites people and nature: water. Karen Kun’s water epiphany began while living with Latin America’s Indigenous communities and, for more than a decade, she’s used storytelling, peer-to-peer learning and empathy as tools to foster meaningful water dialogue. And she’s succeeded wildly. Karen is the founder and president of Waterlution and the co-founder of Greatness – the Great Lakes Project. She has also served as the publisher of the critically acclaimed Corporate Knights Magazine. Indeed, Karen has become one Canada’s most influential and transformational leaders, celebrated for her trademark ability to create unexpected partnerships that allow for thoughtful debate and new approaches to old problems.

We spoke with Karen in her Toronto backyard to ask why good work starts with good questions and why we should all be willing to ask – and to be asked – the hard questions.

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What do you think?

  • Do you agree that we need to spend more time being reasonably uncomfortable?
  • Do we need to focus on process more? Or do we focus on it too much?
  • How can we be better collaborators?
  • How do we overcome blindspots in our thinking without losing sight of our original vision?

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