I mean, there are a lot of things I probably could have done better. I don’t know that I would have done anything necessarily differently, maybe I would have understood that change is a long game and that you have to be willing to go through a journey that came for you with time, experience, and maturity. I wanted everything to happen so fast, and I was impatient in many, in many cases.
I now understand, and I try to lead by example, around this idea that the process of change is a journey. It’s not an event. That’s why you hear me often talk about this work in hockey being a movement, not a moment, and settling people on the fact that as much as you want to see change happen quickly, you have to measure progress in increments and not be dissatisfied with the fact that you may not ever get to the end of that journey, because it continues to evolve and change.
What I always say is that I want to leave spaces and places that I touch better than I found them, and somebody will come behind me and do the next level of work, but my role is to come in and leave those places and spaces that I am part of better than I found them.
