From time to time, I’m asked to publicly speak or comment on issues related to leadership, purpose, collaboration, technology, learning, talent, employee engagement and/or culture. I also occasionally write formal pieces in various magazines. I also write at Forbes, The Huffington Post, Psychology Today and Harvard Business Review.

Some of those quotes and columns can be found below.

Note: Dan writes at Forbes. Below are articles where he has been quoted. Forbes Magazine: Find Your Sweet Spot To Excel As An Entrepreneur (May, 2016) Forbes Magazine: Don’t Blame Baby Boomers For The Zombie Apocalypse (Jun 2014) Forbes Magazine: The Five Elements Of A ‘Simply Irresistible’ Organization (Apr 2014) Forbes Magazine: Why Most Of What We Know About Management Is Plain, Flat, Dead Wrong (Jan 2014) Forbes Magazine: How To Lead A Flat Army (Jun 2013) Forbes Magazine: The Pearl Of Leadership Comes From Collaborative Action (Jun 2013) Forbes Magazine: How Corporate Culture Drives Competitive Advantage (May 2013) Forbes Magazine: The Management Revolution That’s Already Happening (May 2013) Forbes Magazine: Make Your Company Top-of-Mind and Your Employees Proud (Mar 2013) Forbes Magazine: From Inside Out, Speed Your Company’s Social Transformation (Jan 2013) Talent Management Magazine: Breaking the Chain: The Benefits of Flat Leadership (Aug 2013) Talent Management Magazine: Practice Makes Perfect: Does It Work? (Aug 2013) Talent Management Magazine: Does Telework Thwart Promotion? (Apr 2013) Talent Management Magazine: The Future of Feedback (Jun 2012) Talent Management Magazine: When On-Boarding Goes Digital (Mar 2012) Talent Management Magazine: The Case for Collaboration (Oct 2011) Talent Management Magazine: Tips for Collaboration (Sept 2011) T+D Magazine: Culture as a Competitive Advantage (Sept 2012) T+D Magazine: Steer Clear of Organizational Leadership Turbulence (Jan 2012) T+D Magazine: Getting Social to Create Transparency (Oct 2011) T+D Magazine: Learning With and From Others: Restructuring Budgets for Social Learning (Jan 2011) T+D Magazine: Cream of the Crop (Oct 2009) The Vancouver Sun: Pontefract’s purpose? Envision, engage, empower corporate change (July, 2016) Big Think: Forget Work-Life Balance: Achieve Work-Life Integration by Finding Purpose (June, 2016) KM World: Collaboration: Enterprise social takes root (Oct 2015) The Economist: Collaboration meets learning: Driving culture change with cloud-based tools (Jun 2015) INC: Taking the Measure of Corporate Learning (Jun 2015) SAP Center for Business Insight: Why Companies Should Invest in Revamping Corporate Learning (Aug 2014) Education Week: Let’s ‘See Each Other Through’ the Learning (Jun 2014) eLearn Magazine: A Review of Flat Army (Apr 2014) IT Business: Cameco Taps TELUS Transformation Office to Boost Employee Engagement (Apr 2014) TechTarget: Get more out of your SAP JAM implementation with these tips (Jan 2014) Businesses are Jamming with SAP (Nov 2013) HR.com: TELUS Moves to the Cloud with SuccessFactors and SAP to Create Better Employee Engagement (Oct 2013) SAP Insider: How TELUS Communications Benefits from SAP Jam (Oct 2013) TechTarget: Enterprise social networking tools’ ROI tough to define (Aug 2013) Associations Now: How Leaders Can Get the Information They Really Need (Jul 2013) The eLearning Coach: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization Podcast (June 2013) Profit Guide: Strengthen Your Team’s Weakest Link (Apr 13) The Evolllution: Higher Education Must Create Links With Industries (Sept 2012) PC World: Social Software Users: Focus on Corporate Culture or Your Project Will Fail (June 2012) Training Industry Quarterly: Redefining the ‘e’ in e-Learning (Fall 2011) Learning Circuits: Disappearing Act – The Vanishing Corporate Classroom

The Globe & Mail: The beef with Earls – lessons learned from a messy mistake (May, 2016) The Globe & Mail: The Earls example: How to reverse corporate culture (May, 2016) The Globe & Mail: How employee engagement can boost the bottom line (Dec 2014) The Globe & Mail: Let’s move the needle on corporate jargon (Nov 2013) The Globe & Mail: Turning leadership into a team effort (Jun 2013) The Globe & Mail: TELUS’s collaboration sherpa points the way forward (Aug 2012) The Globe & Mail: 10 Tips for running online teams (Feb 2012) The Globe & Mail: Virtual water coolers and a meeting of minds (Jan 2012) The Globe & Mail: Say Goodbye to Email (Aug 2007) Harvard Busines Review: You’re Never Done Finding Purpose at Work (May 2016) Harvard Business Review: Leadership in Liminal Times (Oct 2014) Harvard Business Review: Rethinking the Work of Leadership (Jul 2013) CLO Magazine: Injecting Purpose Into the CLO Role (May, 2016) CLO Magazine: The Power of Purpose (Oct, 2015) CLO Magazine: Weighing the Options: Different Schools of Thought (Aug 2013) CLO Magazine: What is Social Learning Anyway? (Apr 2013) CLO Magazine: Informal Learning: Any Way You Want It, Any Time You Need It (Mar 2013) CLO Magazine: Learning Technology, Where’s The Money Going (Dec 2012) CLO Magazine: How to Measure Social Learning (Sept 2012) CLO Magazine: How TELUS Keeps Learning Plugged In (July 2012) CLO Magazine: Time’s Up – Learning Will Forever be Part Formal, Part Informal and Part Social (Feb 2011) Financial Post: Exploring ‘green fields’: How TELUS came to join the fray of the consulting services market (May 2014)   Inc.: 15 Business Books Worth Reading This Summer (May, 2016) Upstart Business Journal: Why Entrepreneurs Should Think About Purpose–Not Just Themselves (May, 2016) Fast Company: How Fairphone—The World’s Most Ethical Cell Phone—Stays Good (May, 2016) Fortune Magazine: The Future of Work: Say Goodbye to HR? (Apr 2015) Skillsoft: Reflecting on 2014 Perspectives AUS & NZ—‘Innovate, Influence, Impact’ (Sep 2014) SAP Business Innovation: TELUS – A Pervasive Learning Culture That Keeps Employees Tuned In And Engaged (Aug 2014) Skillsoft: Thought Leader Insight: Dan Pontefract on Social Learning (Aug 2014) CMSWire: Where Does HR Go From Here? (Jul 2014) IT World: TELUS to Offer Leadership Consulting (Apr 2014) IT Business: TELUS uses SAP Jam as ‘glue’ in corporate culture transformation (Feb 2014) WRLWND: No More Meetings (Dec 2013) CareerTopia: 8 Career Experts Reveal 8 Reasons Why Every Careerist Should Own a Personal Website (Nov 2013) IT Business: 3 ways TELUS improved its employee engagement (Oct 2013) ELearning Magazine: Training Becomes More Than An Event at TELUS (Oct 2013) The Work Revolution: Interview with Dan Pontefract (Jul 2013) HR Voice: Leading with the Brain in Mind (Mar 2013) Human Capital Media: Driving Social Learning (Mar 2013) The Evolllution: Exploring MOOCs from the Corporate Perspective (Jan 2013) Computing.co.uk: Let the business games commence (Aug 2012) IT in Canada: TELUS Gets Real With Virtual Learning (July 2012) CIO.com: Consumerization of IT – The Social Networking Problem (Mar 2012) Delta Sky Magazine: Training 3.0 (Oct 2011) HR Voice: The New Tools of Leadership (Dec 2010) ELearning Magazine: Implementing Social Learning BetaNews: Who Will Take the Upgrade Plunge and Why? ZDNET: Aussie Business Intelligence Lacks Enough Brains Job Postings: Life After The Dot Com Bust Business in Calgary: Online Collaboration CIO Magazine: Making Enterprise Social Networking a Reality Microsoft Case Study

 

From time to time, other bloggers point back to some of my musings. Thank you for that.

Some of those items can be found below.

Sameer Patel: Assessing the Real Value of ‘Me’ Jon Husband (FastForward): Employee Performance and Learning in the E2.0 Context Jay Cross: Snake Oil 2.0: Lipstick on a Pig Jane Hart: What is the Future of the LMS? Clark Quinn: When to LMS Dave Wilkins: Personal Brand, Professional Brand, and Perceived Bias in Social Media Jessica Lipnack (NetAge): Yes! Ability to Lead Remotely is Next 2.0 Skill Jane Hart: January 2011 in Review

Kristina Schneider: The Components of True Collaboration David Mallon (Bersin): Friday Reflects #2 Jeff Wilfong (Talent Culture): Musings on the Collaborative Enterprise Mark Fidelman (Cloud Ave): The Must Read Enterprise 2.0 Articles – A Guide Jon Ingham: My Thoughts on 2.0 Tony Karrer: eLearning Predictions Further Thoughts: eLearning Technology Michael Carty (Xpert HR): The Benefits of Microblogging