INSPIRATION

Kris Tompkins, former CEO of Patagonia inc. and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, knows where we should be heading. On 21 January 2021 Kristine spoke honestly about how she and her late husband Douglas had experienced the desire “to change everything’ in their lives, which led to them purchasing…

In amongst the personal limitations, upsets, doom-scrolling and separation from loved ones, many of us are starting to see that we’ve been freer, more open and grown more this year. When the Collins Dictionary picked ‘lockdown’ as the word of the year for 2020, they tapped...

In history, there have been periods so bleak we’ve called them the ‘dark’ ages. What makes 2020 different? Not the scale of the disaster, nor the nature of the pandemic, but the one thing that’s stopped it being a “dark” year.

Kristine Tompkins is an American conservationist, former CEO of Patagonia Inc., and President and Co-founder of Tompkins Conservation. Kristine is also a UN Environment Patron, recognised for her commitment to protected areas of the planet.

We’ve all spent most of this year being grateful for technology, from Zoom and Teams and the way they’ve revolutionised our work-lives through, to Netflix and curved gaming monitors that have helped us...

It can be easy to forget that every tradition was a response to current conditions, and that what we do this year will become traditional by the end of the decade. We all know that this Christmas will be like no other we’ve lived through...

Recent research says something different. In 2009 a Harvard Business School study showed that happier people give more, and that giving increases happiness – so it’s a virtuous circle. And it’s not just people; some primates demonstrate “pro-social behaviours”...

Books are written about it, podcasts focus on it, each of us has a personal barometer that charts our success level in all areas of life: financially, socially, romantically, educationally, sports, work and family. We measure our success everywhere...

The influence of travel is profound – it’s a whole-body experience that feeds every sense. But it also does something more remarkable… it creates the space within which that mercurial thing called ‘flow’ can happen. Flow is something we’ve all experienced, and yet few of us can predict...

As the current president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation and the former CEO of Patagonia, Inc., Kristine left the business world to protect wild beauty and biodiversity by creating national parks, restoring wildlife, inspiring activism, and fostering economic vitality as a result of conservation.