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Peggy Van de Plassche

Peggy Van de Plassche is a seasoned advisor with over 20 years of experience in financial services, healthcare, and technology. She specializes in guiding boards and C-suite executives through transformational change, leveraging technology and capital allocation to drive growth and innovation. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, Peggy also brings unique expertise in navigating complex issues and fostering public-private partnerships—key elements in shaping the Future of Business. Her skill

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11:25

⏱️ How I work out in 5-minute micro-sessions.

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2026/01/27

Yes. Five. Minutes. No leggings. No 45-minute commitments. No heavy weights. No “no pain, no gain” theatrics. Just short bursts scattered through the day that actually… happen. I don’t like working out. I like moving. Big difference. This newsletter is about how I stopped fighting my personality, ignored fitness trends, and built a system that: – strengthens my body – doesn’t disgust me – and survives real life, winter, ugly sneakers, and motivation g...

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9:47

🌍Uncomfortable optimism may be the most honest macro...

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2026/01/20

Last week I attended the 2026 Macroeconomic Outlook organized by 100 Women In Finance at Scotiabank—and walked away with one conviction: The conversation was anchored by Rebekah Young, Laura Lau and Nan Chen, CFA, FRM Global growth is holding (~3.2% in 2025), markets are still up, AI momentum is real—and yet: Job and wage cooling is unmistakable The disconnect between markets and the real economy is widening AI is shifting from hype to maintenance capital Canada sits at a ...

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10:05

📵 Let’s Go Back to Analogue. At least partially.

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2026/01/13

We all know the data by now: Screens are rewiring our brains, shrinking attention spans, and quietly eroding social skills and relationships. Yet family dinners look like a row of people sitting next to each other… scrolling. Parents model presence—or absence. Playgrounds are louder, attention is shorter, and boredom (which kids actually need) has disappeared. And Silicon Valley’s solution? 👉 More apps to help us be on social media less. I love the irony. Here’s the thing: I love my

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8:19

🍸 Why the Same Dinner Conversation Sounds Smarter...

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2026/01/05

Dinner party. Assigned seating. Luxury objects being passed around. Inventories compared. Photos shown. Colleagues' behaviors discussed—at length If this had been women with handbags, the verdict would have been immediate: vain, shallow, boring 🙄 But it wasn’t. It was men. With watches ⌚ So suddenly: – it’s not vanity, it’s craftsmanship 🛠️ – not gossip, but “knowing the ecosystem” 🌐 – not posturing, but passion Same behavior. Entirely different intellectual upgrade. No...

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8:07

🎯 Your Number One Career Resolution for 2026

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/12/30

🎯 If you set only one career resolution for 2026, make it this. Stop treating LinkedIn like a photo album And start treating it like your own HBR 📖 Thought leadership isn’t about posting more. It’s about thinking better — and making that thinking visible 🧠 Writing regularly has: sharpened how I listen 👂 clarified how I think ✍️ elevated the conversations I have 💬 and, yes, quietly unlocked career opportunities 🚪 Not because I post pictures of where I go — but because I share what I

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19:06

🚧 Career Slump? How to Shake Yourself Out of It

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/12/16

🚧 Career stalled? Before you panic — listen to this. Career slumps don’t mean you made bad choices. More often, they mean the environment shifted, the market moved, expectations drifted, or something quietly stopped fitting. I’ve been through several versions of the career slump — sometimes forced, sometimes chosen, sometimes just confusing — and I’ve tested more remedies than I care to admit. In my latest newsletter, I share what actually helped me regain momentum, without platitudes o...

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8:36

💻 ChatGPT-5 Deep Research: Overpromise, Underdeliver

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/11/25

Ever feel like you’re managing an overconfident junior analyst — only this one costs $20/month and never sleeps? That’s been my relationship with ChatGPT-5 lately. Brilliant at first glance, charming in tone, but when deadlines hit… it cheerfully tells you everything is “✅ On track” while the deliverables are nowhere to be found. I’ve done the homework — deep-dive courses, optimized prompts, feedback loops tighter than a McKinsey Gantt chart — yet the “deep research” experience remains ...

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13:43

💎 When a $135-million pearl challenges the art world

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/11/18

What makes something valuable? Its beauty, its rarity… or the story it tells? A few years ago, I met artist Abraham Reyes — heir to the world’s largest natural pearl, the Giga Pearl, appraised at $135 million. But instead of locking it away, he turned his inheritance into art. He uses real gems and wild pearls to create sculptures that question what value really means — in art, in markets, in culture. It reminded me of Marcel Duchamp, who once placed a urinal in a museum and called it ...

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10:07

💭 What if the next step in your personal growth… was...

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/11/11

For years, I was a model student of personal development — from the most structured to the most woo-woo. Therapy. Energy work. Coaching. Yoga. Breathwork. You name it — I did it. And it worked. I’m calmer, more confident, and more grounded because of all that work, not despite it. But here’s the catch: at some point, all that “growth” starts getting in the way of life itself. You go from living to self-improving. From “being” to “fixing.” You start chasing the next workshop instead of ...

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🔍Rethinking What Really Shapes a Career

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/11/04

💬 What’s the Best Career Advice You’ve Ever Given? Last week, I was speaking at the Club Canadien de Toronto during the Francophone Summit on Finance and Investment 2025. The panel was about Power, Leadership, and Investment: Who Shapes the Finance of Tomorrow? But the moment that stayed with me came from the Q&A. A young woman in the audience asked: “What advice would you give to someone like me starting out in finance?”My co-panelists gave wonderful, practical answers — build a n...

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10:30

📖Forget Self-Help — Read a Biography Instead

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/10/28

The most underrated form of personal development? Reading someone else’s life. Not the polished business bios that read like PR exercises. But the real ones — messy, contradictory, deeply human stories of artists, writers, and athletes who fail, doubt, reinvent, and rise again. Reading David Bowie makes you question how far you’d go to reinvent yourself. Jane Birkin teaches you what it takes to reclaim your own narrative. Didion and Babitz expose the eternal tension between disc...

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7:33

💪 Expand Your Career Longevity — Invest in Yourself

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/10/21

When I say invest in yourself, I don’t mean another AI course, eMBA, or leadership retreat in the Rockies. I mean literally: invest in your appearance, fitness, and energy. Why? Because ageism is alive and well — for both women and men. Pretending it doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. As a (very honest) friend working at a large bank told me: “I’m doing everything I can to look young. In my group, no one is overweight and no one is above 40.”Scary? Maybe. Realistic? Absolutely. In to...

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17:26

🤖 Is Your Agentic AI a Solution Looking for a Problem? 💭

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/10/14

I’ve seen it too many times. New tech emerges — blockchain, crypto, digital transformation — and companies rush headfirst into POCs, MVPs, and pilots… …forgetting to ask the most important question: 👉 Why? AI is no different. During my month in the Emirates, I attended several AI events and heard it all: ✨ AI for Good. AI for the People. AI as an Enabler. Refreshing, compared to the ego-driven “move fast and break things” we so love in North America. But I also met the Evangeli...

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💰What I Learned About Economic Development in the...

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/10/07

I spent a month in the UAE. And I came back thinking — they’re doing what we in the West keep talking about… but with coherence and conviction. In the Emirates, economic development isn’t an afterthought — it’s a strategy. If you want to access sovereign wealth funds, the rule is simple: 💼 No local office, no money. Capital comes with purpose. You invest in the country, not just from it. The same logic applies to government contracts and SOEs. Public funds are tied to publi...

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Finding a Job and Doing Business in the UAE: More...

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/09/30

In North America, the first question is usually: “What can you do for me?” In the UAE, it’s more often: “Who are you? What are your values?” That simple difference reshapes everything—hiring, compensation, execution, even how time itself is perceived. 👉 Relationships come before résumés. 👉 Compensation is negotiated differently (and turnover is built into the system). 👉 Time runs on a more elastic clock. 👉 Local presence and patience aren’t optional—they’re the ticket to cr...

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12:36

🌴 Networking in the Desert: Why Dubai Feels Different

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/09/23

✨ One week in Dubai and already noticing patterns in how people actually do business here. Networking feels… different. Meetings in days, not monthsFull attention, not 25 min with an Apple Watch buzzingInvites with no strings attachedExpats who get it — building new lives, new careers, new networksA buoyant economy where expansion (not survival) drives behaviorOf course, there are still the bullshitters, the bait-and-switchers, and the “investment advisors” who really just want to sell you a ...

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11:11

⚖️ Structural Inequality: Polite Silence vs. Blunt Truth

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/09/16

💸 In Dubai, inequality isn’t hidden. It’s right there: Lamborghinis next to labor buses. Nobody pretends it’s sad, nobody calls for change. It simply is. The pecking order is clear, unapologetic, and accepted. 😶 In the West, we play a different game. We polish inequality with layers of politeness. We don’t talk about money — it’s “unseemly.” We pretend everyone is equal. And by making inequality an off-limits topic, we protect the status quo. No one complains. No one rocks the boat. But

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12:46

🏃Four Weeks, Two Cities: Hitting Reset in the UAE

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/09/09

I’m pressing the reset button: 4 weeks, 2 cities, ~many coffees. Dubai Sep 10–20 → Abu Dhabi Sep 22–Oct 3. Why? Because sometimes it’s riskier to stay put than to move. The UAE’s dynamism is a pull; today’s noise is a push. I’m here to learn fast, meet great people, and map real opportunities in PE/SWF/value creation. What’s inside the newsletter (playbook included): • Join communities early. FrenchFounders, CFA (Emirates), 100 Women in Finance, biz councils = instant lift. • Be in the roo...

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19:38

🤖How to AI-Proof Your Career (and Actually Thrive)

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/09/02

AI-proofing your career boils down to 2 moves: 1) Amplify everything AI can’t do (or doesn’t do well). 2) Double-down on your secret sauce. Why now? The IMF estimates ~40% of global jobs are exposed to AI—~60% in advanced economies. If half of what you do is automatable, make the other half unmistakable. 🧭 Critical thinking is the operating system. Ask sharper questions, design the analysis, own the judgment. No report should come from an LLM that you didn’t architect and can’t defend. 🗣️

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12:38

😱Did You Lose Someone to Conspiracy Theory?

Peggy Van de Plassche ·

2025/08/26

Ever had a perfectly normal coffee turn into a TED Talk on how cannibals run the world? Same. ☕🌀 My new newsletter is a field guide to the conspiracy slide—how a chat that starts with “sugar is bad” ends with “the lizard people are late to the meeting.” Inside the piece: The Black-Hole Effect: How five “wellness” videos become ten anti-vax rants and—boom—global cabal. (Scroll = rocket fuel.)Spot the Tells: “You’re being manipulated.” ✅ “I have underground sources.” (Hi, Fred2009$.) ✅

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