CEO Agenda

At the ripe old age of 29, I was part of the team tasked with redefining my company’s culture. Every employee had been given a comprehensive guidebook on how these new values should shape our future behavior. As a company in the energy industry facing huge disruption, refocusing on values...

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Report, there are over 2.5 million veteran-owned businesses in the United States, employing more than 5 million people. These businesses generate a massive $1.1 trillion in revenue and represent over 9% of all US businesses. As any small-business owner will tell you, running...

2020 was INSANE for many of us with all kinds of global ‘crazy’ happening and on top of that, we all had our normal life events and challenges going on too. I personally had a big year, giving birth to my second child in January 2020, only 4 months after...

Stop letting manual document processing hold your productivity back. Enterprises handle an ever-increasing number of documents each day. And ever since the late Charles Geschke first introduced the PDF in 1982, an increasing portion of those documents are digital – yet they are still being processed manually. These documents –...

The competition is stealing my talent; the CDC says masks/no-masks; WFH staff don’t want to come back to the office! What am I to do? As we know, the business has always been about profits and beating the competition. We have to be first at anything –be it product, service,...

Everyone I talk with lately is grappling with the “What’s Next?” question for their teams. That being the case, I can’t think of a better time to reflect on what you’ve learned during the pandemic. As the CEO or leader of your team, consider starting that reflection by answering the...

Whether at work and at home, we all have those occasional moments of total clarity where we know exactly what we should be doing, where we want to end up, and which tasks are the most important for getting us there. Unfortunately, the brain doesn’t tend to linger there for...

Holistic wellbeing comes from managing your physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual energy. To achieve a positive energy balance requires you to first become aware of what is giving you energy and what is drawing energy from you. In some ways, it works like a bank account. When you are...

Time is one resource you can't duplicate despite our desire to have more of it. You may understand this, which means there needs to be another way to leverage the time you already have to get more done and accomplish your goals. The habits you're cultivating are an indicator of...

Continual investment in improving your skills as a CEO is the best investment you can make – for yourself and your company. Of course, spending time educating yourself through online classes and workshops, Ted Talks, and reading books about executive and leadership tips is time well spent. But time spent...