• “Saltwater cures everything:” My opening narrative at the Ocean Symposium

    This is how I framed the two-day oceansymposium.com in Tokyo, as emcee: “Good morning. And a special welcome to our distinguished guests and leaders from around the world” My name is Hanson Hosein. I will be your emcee over the next two days for this International Symposium on Capacity Building for Sustainable Oceans. It is fitting…

  • My story solution to fend off a poorer, meaner, hotter world

    Against our better judgment, we seem to be making our world poorer, meaner and hotter. I intend the opposite for my children and for my students. And I will use the two strategies in which I have most invested my entire professional life — content and connectivity — to do something about it.

  • Write Your (own) Headline

    As I now support my students in finding their own direction, I always exhort them to title their resumes and their online profiles appropriately. How we write our headlines, and what they say, matter enormously to others. More essentially, how we own them serve as a real-time mission statement to ourselves as we continue to…

  • Story: Capital, Story: Currency

    I’ve endeavored to put ourselves at the locus of Seattle’s highly collaborative energy, with this grandiose concept to establish our place in the world as the “story capital.” It’s founded in the notion that even as we create and engage differently here, it’s an approach that can be shared with others as we fearlessly tackle…