CEO Advisory

Today’s landscape is starting to feel more and more like The Upside Down. From an enterprise perspective, where we once talked about how to integrate virtual workers with your brick-and-mortar staff, the opposite now proves necessary. We’ve often joked that the future is now as work teams now often include...

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought with it a host of new issues and concerns for businesses as they focus their efforts on protecting their employees, workstreams, and revenues. It is a worrying time with rapidly changing scenarios, advice, and understandably the concern for people’s wellbeing is rising. The pandemic has...

While grappling with coronavirus stress, it’s easy for your employees to feel disengaged and uninspired. Motivation can be doubly hard to find when you’ve gone from a fast-paced, tight-knit office environment to 2 p.m. Zoom meetings in which everyone’s still wearing their pajamas. Now more than ever, employees are counting...

CEOs and their leadership teams seek digital transformation and cloud adoption to compete for success in the new economy. Despite the prevailing advice and encouragement to move rapidly on transformation plans, CEOs know all too well the challenges associated with authorizing and implementing sweeping digital and cloud adoption. Organizations want to pursue digital initiatives,...

Let’s say you’re the proud new owner of a chihuahua. You go to a pet store to buy a collar, but the clerk tells you, “We only have collars in one size.” You slip the one-size-fits-all loop over your dog’s head, only to find that it’s so big, it could...

Many in the business community believe that people will be working from home even when we are given the “all-clear” to reopen the economy. Some experts predict that by the end of 2021 a third of the workforce will be working remotely at least several days a week. Certainly, remote...

Within five minutes of talking to someone new, I often find they are trying to put you in a box that sums up the type of person you are. The usual questions are things like, “What do you do for work? Do you have kids? What sort of education do...

Well before Covid19 began to impact our lives the demand for flexible work conditions that allow people to more effectively integrate their job with the rest of their lives was growing.  Largely driven by a generational shift in mindset around the need for greater balance between home and work, the...

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging leaders worldwide in ways most have never experienced. The health of your employees and their families is threatened. You are experiencing an extreme range of challenges. Some of you are under government orders to close or demand for your products has disappeared. For others, demand...

Please let me be clear — before the leaders of any essential businesses can do our jobs, we first need to thank our heroic first responders and medical personnel for their service and commitment to our communities. As COVID-19 sweeps across the globe, we’ve seen additional people step up in heroic ways:...