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$2.4 billion in goods cross the U.S.-Canada border every day, a number that reshaped how our Fort Worth Forum delegation thought about our closest neighbor. Proximity, it turns out, doesn’t automatically create understanding. Leadership trips work best when you return home with sharper questions, not just souvenirs.
Read MorePlanning a major event in another country is exciting and terrifying at the same time, especially when it means bringing 561 people from 15 countries to Izumisano City, Japan. Behind every fireworks display and tuna-carving demonstration was a team solving problems no one in the audience ever saw. A gigantic arigato to everyone who helped pull it off.
Read MoreWhat started as a pandemic-era idea to recognize minority-owned businesses in Fort Worth eventually landed in Rotary International magazine, reaching 1.2 million Rotarians in 200 countries. Community initiatives don’t need to start at national scale, they just need people willing to act. I think Richard would be proud.
Read MoreAmbassador Tom Schieffer was scheduled to spend 45 minutes with our Sister Cities International Youth Ambassadors. He stayed for three hours and skipped lunch. Experience becomes more valuable when it’s shared, and our young ambassadors still talk about that conversation.
Read MoreWhen the Fort Worth Forum picked Bozeman, Montana for our first Seminar trip, I wasn’t sure what Fort Worth leaders could learn from a city so different from our own. Turns out, plenty, starting with my first smudging ceremony. The goal was never to copy Bozeman, it was to come home with better questions.
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