On our recent TOMS company retreat, we took a creative route to getting to know each other. We were given a list of facts that each matched up with one of our co-workers. Our mission? To have a lot of conversations about a lot of random topics with each other to try and decipher who [...]

At TOMS HQ we are so thankful for all of our TOMS fans, especially those that support us in different locations around the world.  Including… underwater?! You all are truly an inspiration… keep those pics coming!

On a recent Caribbean cruise I packed my favorite pair of TOMS and my TOMS flag hoping to spread the [...]

Eleven strangers from around the country were chosen to work in one warehouse for five months.  Welcome to the life of a TOMS Spring 2010 intern.  My name is Sarah and I am one of the newest members to the TOMS family! I drove across the country all the way from Augusta, GA to begin [...]

Three of our staff – Andrew, Alejo, and I – just got back from a week in Ethiopia, finding exciting new ways to increase our giving there. In addition to participating in Timkat, one of Ethiopia’s biggest holidays (where Andrew and Alejo wore matching Ethiopian shirts and I got blessed/sprayed in the face by a [...]

My name is Hajime and I am a part of the International Sales Team at TOMS.  On our most recent TOMS Canada tour we were fortunate enough to meet Jared Sullivan from lululemon in the Newmarket, Ontario store. Jared is an incredibly passionate person, has a love for TOMS Shoes, and shared with us the [...]

Partners in Health has been working in Haiti for more than 20 years and are deeply committed to the betterment of Haiti. They made a “mega-commitment” in 2008 at the annual Clinton Global Initiative conference to expand efforts in Haiti after the country was devastated by an aggressive hurricane season in 2008. Blake was blown [...]

In a recent letter Blake wrote to each of us at HQ, he began:
My TOMS Family,
Please read the first three words of this letter again. Yes, i truly feel as if TOMS is a family, and from day one, i have done everything possible to treat each person with the same love and respect that [...]

As Blake put it, TOMS HQ is a pretty special place and we now have a way for visitors to remember their trip here: photos from our sweet vintage photo booth. It was quite an adventure to find the piece and our tech and creative department re-built it to get it in functioning order. It’s [...]

Just an update, the mystery box is still there… although I know what’s inside now. Soon the rest of HQ (and you!) will know too…

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.  He hardly knows which is which.  he simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine [...]