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Life Lessons Under Lockdown
Dr. Karen Sumner
What can we learn and teach our children in the midst of a pandemic?
Our world changed at lightning speed earlier this year. Life felt normal in January, a bit uncertain in February, and almost unrecognizable by March. Our kids headed out for the break and then never went back to school. Many of us quickly set up remote offices or stopped working altogether. Zoom and Google Meets became fixtures of our days. Picking up groceries transitioned into an intricate dance of planning, distancing and sanitizing. We cut ourselves off from one another, hunkering down in our homes to stay safe. We worried about – and sorely missed – our extended families, friends and communities.
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Living His Truth
Michael Cherny ’08
Blazing trails in business, diversity and inclusion
It’s hard to describe exactly what Michael Cherny ’08 does at Deloitte. Before completing his bachelor of commerce at the University of Toronto, Mike started as an intern and has been there ever since. His first full-time role was as a staff accountant in 2011, after which he became a senior accountant, a senior consultant, chief of staff for the Audit Public Practice, and then the senior manager lead for the Future of Trust in 2019.
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The Door of Opportunity
Adrian Battiston ’05
Doing whatever it takes to secure a dream job.
When you practice law in the music industry, students often seek your guidance about breaking into the field. For Adrian Battiston ’05, who has spent six years as in-house counsel for what is now Anthem Entertainment, the advice is simple. “I tell them to put in the work so that they are ready when the door of opportunity finally opens,” he says. “And when it does, you don’t walk through it. You have to jump through it.”
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