I’ve helped businesses navigate compliance scares, overhaul hiring processes, build policies from scratch, and lead through the kinds of employee situations that keep owners up at night.
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Quite a while ago, I did a presentation at a fantastic networking group on Innovation, Creativity, and Facing Fears. The hosts distilled some of the talking points in a video that, when I watched it, I was surprised at how much it helped me! In going through my resources and
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I’m one of those people who sees a life lesson in a lot of different things, and movies are definitely one of them. A favorite of late has been the Avengers. It’s great, I love the plot, the script, just everything about it, but the last few months,
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A while back, I wrote a post about lessons I learned while I was a learning development teacher, and how some of these lesson are quite applicable in our current day to day and business lives. As I shared and got feedback, I found that there was more to the
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Keep On Last month, I spoke at a ribbon cutting gala, and I included this incident I experienced some years back about how we should keep going, and not turning back. I had so many people tell me how much it made an impact with them, I decided to share
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Hope on Display Posted on 4 March, 2018 As I travel the hope journey, I contemplate the very familiar verse, “‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.'” – Jeremiah
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I recently had the privilege of being on a podcast with John Sanchez of On RAMP to Success, a group dedicated to helping people with self-development. "Speaker and coach, Akpene Torku Sims, embodies the true meaning of an Ezer, a strong person who protects and delivers; a strong
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One of my favorite quotes from Alice in Wonderland (aside from “We’re all mad here”) is a conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat: Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?
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I had the privilege to speak with Iyman Bradwell-El, founder of Dabi’s Daughter on topics such as business etiquette, reputation, and the like. Dabi’s Daughter is an organization developed to teach young women the ropes of succeeding in the corporate world through theory and through practice. They
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I love what Nelson Mandela said about fear: “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” What does fear tell you about your goals, your methodology,
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In Saving Mr. Banks, Walt Disney had been wooing P.L. Travers for the rights to Mary Poppins with huge gestures and plans, to which she remained impassive and unimpressed. There’s a scene when Walt Disney finds out her real name is Helen Geoff, and he realizes who she
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What do you limit yourself to when you do things the way you’ve always done them? I read in an article long ago lost, "Although we humans can be remarkably inventive, we are also resistant to change and can be persistently stubborn (or perhaps ‘practical’) in trying to
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In this driving society where multi-tasking can be king, do you find yourself being a Jack or Jill of all trades? A better question is – Should you be a Jack or Jill of all trades? There’s a 1930’s quote that says, “The man who can drive safely