Marketing Makes The Business I just spent three days at a Rockstar Marketing conference. If there is one thing I have learned from being business over the last 2 years, its that no matter how amazing you, your products, and services are, you will not make money if no...
I want to tell you the best kind of Thanksgiving story. The kind that starts with giving and ends with the thanks. Sometimes, when building our businesses, we forget that we started them with the intention of being of service to others. If we can get back to that...
The White Guy In The Room In the month of April I taught 8 workshops on the topic of unconscious bias and 3 on microaggression and inclusivity. Between those engagements there were other clients and other topics around various forms of communication. But it always...
The Big Performance Review Talk It's that time of year again: annual review season. Now we are all familiar with annual reviews at work. Those horrible conversations where you are waiting for your boss to tell you all the things that they've been harboring for the...
LinkedIn is Easier Than You Think It Is I know it's hard to focus on learning another social media platform when it seems like you can already get lost just fine in Facebook, Insta, Pinterest and of course the godawful Twitter feed that gives us a peek into a madman's...
Black Women Carry The Load Women are always carrying a disproportionate amount of the load. And I wrote a poem about it. We do more in the home, we do more on the job. And now, more than ever there seems to be a trend in noticing just how much more, in particular,...
Going Live in 3, 2 . . . Yesterday September 27, 2017 I hosted my first live event and sweepstakes. I went live on Instagram for about 45 minutes to engage in some live Q and A. We talked about career planning, coaching, entrepreneurship and all things work life...
Independence Day One of the best days of my professional life, was the day I got fired. I walked out of the HR meeting and wished the company the best of luck (I meant it). And then I went to the airport so I could be in San Francisco for one of my independent...
Millennials, We Are The Future I’m a Millennial and I love it. I am part of the generation that birthed social media, and the gig economy. My peers made coming to work in hoodies, and literally phoning it in the norm. I come from a generation that insists “hey,...
Politics on LinkedIn makes sense and here’s why. Brands are About Beliefs Implicit in branding are core values. That’s why great mission and vision statements focus on behaviors and impact instead of sales and operations. A mission statement is deeply rooted in the...
In times of tumultuous change and especially new political climates, it's important for leaders to remember that part of the burden/opportunity of leadership is being the go-to person that people can trust when they need support. Great leaders demonstrate...
The holidays were good to me. I went to a place that I so disliked and that was so devoid of the cultural stimulation that I crave that I had no other choice but to be still. To eat and to breathe and then to eat again. I went to Florida and spent time with my...
Allyship and the Problem with Labels Allyship is a slippery word. We want people to do better so we tell them to “be an ally” but then people ask us “okay, I want to help. I’m an ally. Now what do I do?” So then we told people that allyship wasn’t enough (...
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