MY WISH FOR 2023

It’s Saturday, and I’m savouring the stillness. 

I honestly hope everyone on team Duke is doing the same, because we’ve had a heckuva year. 

2022 was a period of tremendous growth for our company, for our team, for our capabilities, and for me. I am grateful for it all, and so proud of our gang and everything we accomplished. 

I spent most of the year marvelling at the kinds of projects that came through our door. They reflected the pace of change in our province, the amount of invention happening in our region, and – dare I say it: a whole lot of optimism. 

While we celebrated the good times, though, the little voice that lives in the back of my brain was fretting and wringing its hands: what comes next? Correction. Recession. Scarcity. Division. I guess you could say I spent this year struggling to trust the change brought by 2022.   

But now it’s the end of the year and what comes next is about to take place. So where did I land on the whole trust thing? I realized it’s not about trust at all.  

It’s about deciding which road we take. 

We can decide to keep on embracing change. Keep trying new things. Keep setting goals and knocking them down. Keep tackling our obstacles. Supporting each other. Celebrating our wins. We can decide to keep being optimistic about what’s possible for us all. 

What does that mean? It means Duke is going to keep on walking the path 2022 set for us. And my wish for next year is that our region and our province does the same. 

2023: let’s be bold together.