Class Note 1993
Issue
January-February 2022
Hello again, ’93s, hope you’re all well. This month we have a literary edition of Class Notes focusing on our classmates who have published books.
To me (Dwight), writing a book will always be a hugely impressive feat. I would like to think I have one in me, but then can’t conjure anything more than a page or two worth of content, double-spaced. Not the case for three of our classmates—Kate Gaertner, Geoff Tuff, and Pete McBride—all of whom have new books out.
As the founder and CEO of the corporate sustainability consultancy, TripleWin Advisory LLC, Kate is a sought-after speaker, a regular guest on John Tucker’s Bloomberg Radio Small Business Report, and writes a monthly sustainability column for the Portland, Oregon, Star-News newspaper. In Planting a Seed: 3 Simple Steps to Sustainable Living Kate tackles “how we can find better ways [of] living [and] shows you how to develop an action plan that will help you develop new habits and ways of living that fit into your daily life.” As we watch Washington, D.C., struggle to make meaningful progress for the country and the world in this regard, it’s a good reminder that we should start with the way we each live day to day, the smaller decisions.
As mentioned in a previous Class Notes, Geoff runs Deloitte’s future of energy practice. His new book Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws is all about how in the face of increasing uncertainty it’s critical to take action to provoke the future that you want. Co-written with Geoff’s longtime colleague Steven Goldbach, their second book together, the book explains that “what really matters now—in terms of what will create advantage in a world of uncertainty—is the ability to recognize (and create the management systems to support) the recursive nature of strategic choices and to actively work that recursion.” And while you’re loading up your Amazon cart, don’t forget about their first book, Detonate: Why—And How—Corporations Must Blow Up Best Practices (and Bring a Beginner’s Mind) To Survive.
And last up, in his third book, Seeing Silence, Pete, a filmmaker and National Geographic photographer based in Aspen, Colorado, “takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul.” Pete explains, “I define silence as not void of sound, but void of mechanical sound. If you’re immersed in nature—say, a penguin colony that’s all squawking and singing—it can be mind-numbingly loud in a really beautiful way.” The locations are incredible, as is the photography, and the context is super-interesting. For more info on Pete, you can check out petemcbride.com.
Our collective congratulations go out to Kate, Geoff, and Pete!
That’s all for this edition. As always, please drop us a line with news, thoughts, musings, ideas for future columns, etc. You can find us at Dwight Fenton (dwight.e.fenton.93@dartmouth.edu) or Natalie Weidener Kupinsky (natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu).
—Dwight Fenton, 200 E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, New York City, NY 10021; dwight.e.fenton.93@ dartmouth.edu; Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods Way, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu
To me (Dwight), writing a book will always be a hugely impressive feat. I would like to think I have one in me, but then can’t conjure anything more than a page or two worth of content, double-spaced. Not the case for three of our classmates—Kate Gaertner, Geoff Tuff, and Pete McBride—all of whom have new books out.
As the founder and CEO of the corporate sustainability consultancy, TripleWin Advisory LLC, Kate is a sought-after speaker, a regular guest on John Tucker’s Bloomberg Radio Small Business Report, and writes a monthly sustainability column for the Portland, Oregon, Star-News newspaper. In Planting a Seed: 3 Simple Steps to Sustainable Living Kate tackles “how we can find better ways [of] living [and] shows you how to develop an action plan that will help you develop new habits and ways of living that fit into your daily life.” As we watch Washington, D.C., struggle to make meaningful progress for the country and the world in this regard, it’s a good reminder that we should start with the way we each live day to day, the smaller decisions.
As mentioned in a previous Class Notes, Geoff runs Deloitte’s future of energy practice. His new book Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws is all about how in the face of increasing uncertainty it’s critical to take action to provoke the future that you want. Co-written with Geoff’s longtime colleague Steven Goldbach, their second book together, the book explains that “what really matters now—in terms of what will create advantage in a world of uncertainty—is the ability to recognize (and create the management systems to support) the recursive nature of strategic choices and to actively work that recursion.” And while you’re loading up your Amazon cart, don’t forget about their first book, Detonate: Why—And How—Corporations Must Blow Up Best Practices (and Bring a Beginner’s Mind) To Survive.
And last up, in his third book, Seeing Silence, Pete, a filmmaker and National Geographic photographer based in Aspen, Colorado, “takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul.” Pete explains, “I define silence as not void of sound, but void of mechanical sound. If you’re immersed in nature—say, a penguin colony that’s all squawking and singing—it can be mind-numbingly loud in a really beautiful way.” The locations are incredible, as is the photography, and the context is super-interesting. For more info on Pete, you can check out petemcbride.com.
Our collective congratulations go out to Kate, Geoff, and Pete!
That’s all for this edition. As always, please drop us a line with news, thoughts, musings, ideas for future columns, etc. You can find us at Dwight Fenton (dwight.e.fenton.93@dartmouth.edu) or Natalie Weidener Kupinsky (natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu).
—Dwight Fenton, 200 E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, New York City, NY 10021; dwight.e.fenton.93@ dartmouth.edu; Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods Way, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu