The first thing I ask clients when asked to facilitate their Strategic Plan is “How is your current plan serving you?” The answers range from “well” to “not at all” to even “I don’t know.” After a little research into how it was designed and how they implemented it, I have discovered a few common […]

Do you have a kids table in your organization? The one you place young professionals, baby bankers, “those” entrepreneurs working out of coffee shops on pipe dreams and $6-dollar americanos? Burn it. Burn it down. In the U.S., roughly 73 million Millennials were born between 1980 and 1996 (Gallup, 2016). Fast forward to 2018, and […]

“There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.” – Ralph Ellison I define a sleepwalker as someone whose actions do not align to how they say they want to be perceived by others. Easily stated, they lack self-awareness! These individuals view themselves one way but everyone else in the organization has a […]

In 2016 I was celebrating 5 years at the Chamber as the President of the organization, I was making great strides in professional success, but I had turn over in my small staff…yet again, and the community was seeking even more guidance and leadership from the organization that I had worked so hard to build […]

Sorry to break it to you, but you’re all writers now. With the Twitbooks and the Facetubes, we all have the opportunity to demonstrate expertise and build  our networks while remaining at all times no more than two clicks away from a video of a kitten sneezing. Whether you’re publishing on your own behalf, or […]