So much has been written about the forced mass exodus of women from the paid workforce during COVID-19. We know that women accounted for nearly 54% of job losses since…
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21st Century Leadership
Strengths, Blind Spots and Tools for Professional Transformation
This week’s reading and listening focuses on the benefits of professional development, how to approach it and tools to facilitate success. There are perspectives on the hows and whys of…
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How to Make Your Business More Attractive to Investors
Securing funding for a scale-up phase of a business is potentially more complex than securing funding as a startup. The risks and rewards are likely to be higher and there…
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Culture Essentials: Clarity of Purpose, Collaborative Relationships and Life-long Learning
This week’s collection reflects an eclectic range of reading and listening over the last couple of weeks. Thematically diverse in content and sourcing, these pieces all resonated with me and…
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Don’t Let Your RTO Milestone Turn Into a DEI Millstone
Like many of our clients, you’ve probably spent considerable time in the last few months making facilities decisions and getting ready for employees to starting returning to the office. They…
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Organizational Confidence is Personal
Organizational confidence is a nice concept, but how does it come to life in the real world? Here are some typical personas that mission-driven organizations — both for-profit companies and…
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WFH or WFO: What’s a 21st Century Leader to Do?
Now that masks have (mostly) come off and vaccinations are hitting meaningful levels, we’ve launched into a global case study about the workplace that will undoubtedly be written about by…
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The 21st Century CMO and the Future Of Marketing
The role that marketing plays in a company has evolved significantly in recent years, and has led to a significant shift in the role of the chief marketing officer as…
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Summer Vacation Reading
As I resume writing my column following my family vacation, I thought it might be nice to lead off with a recap of the great books I read over my…
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Waiting to Exhale
I was talking to a friend recently, making plans to get together in person (finally) and comparing notes on our year, when she said something I can’t get out of…
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