Letter from the CEO

Challenges we are now experiencing in the world, our communities, and often our personal lives, are significant. Many factors feel unsettling with the news of economic hardships, looming expansion of war in Europe, continued struggles with COVID and environmental crises.  While we have no control over most of these things, there is something we can do: we can choose how to react.  

 

The power and strength of the individual action is profound. We see it again and again in sustainable practice, invention, healthcare and human rights that one person can spark beneficial change in our world.  

 

At Promega, we find that the core principles of emotional and social intelligence (ESI) we have defined as central to our organization’s culture, can help lead to internal peace, equanimity and calm in the midst of a storm. These core principles are so effective because they tap into the profound strengths found in each of us. Our ESI core principles** like “Check in with yourself” and “Listen with empathy” sidestep global chaos and amplify personal strength. By focusing on what we can control, we can direct our time and energy to where we have the most influence, open ourselves to courage and creativity and enter a world bigger than ourselves.   

 

The choices we make have ripple effects on those around us. By choosing to live with calmness and confidence instead of fear and anxiety, we are in a better mindset to mitigate suffering in our own spheres of influence and to become more intentional to bring about positive change on a larger scale.  

 

Skeptical? Know that you are not alone. We all feel like starting with ourselves just isn’t enough in today’s world, and yet science shows the individual is where meaning making begins.  Says Galileo “In the questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reason of a single individual.”  

 

So we start with what we can control in ourselves and we go from there. That’s enough for today and who knows what it could become tomorrow