03/03/21 John Dony Like many of you probably have, I've spent a good chunk of this long winter reflecting on the past 12 months (if there's one thing shoveling snow is good for, it's reflection). And like many of you, mostly I've simply been dumbstruck by the fact that it's been a year since life has been anything approaching normal. But part of my job is to take these sorts of musings and translate them into something useful – something that will help organizations make the To that end, late last year, I set out to synthesize what I had been hearing from EHS and business leaders both before and during the pandemic. And while it was obvious that the circumstances of our work had changed drastically, it turned out the underlying drivers, needs, and trends hadn't. When I sat down (or shoveled) and thought about it, it seemed to me that COVID-19 didn't really change us so much as it accelerated us on a path we were already on.