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When I set out to write Sticking to my Story: The Alchemy Of Storytelling For Startups, my goal was to help founders by giving them the surefire recipe for what “to do” in their pitch deck. But as I wrote and reviewed my endless notes from nearly 20 years of...

As a woman of color, I have been fortunate to have advocates in my network who have stepped up to help me drive my career path upward. Through building my network both internally and externally, I have met hundreds of Black and Brown women who are achieving incredible things in...

Businesses are creating and collecting data significantly faster than before. Unfortunately, data can hurt businesses more than it helps if different departments or business applications process it in silos. In order to turn data into an asset, companies must engage the people providing it, keep it updated, and improve interdepartmental communication....

An environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy focuses on how a company can become more socially responsible. The pandemic shifted people's thinking. People care more about the world they’ll leave to future generations and worry about how their spending impacts the world at large.  While an ESG strategy impacts all...

Managing finances as a college-going student is not easy. Even when you receive financial backing from your parents or university, you will still have to be mindful of how much and where you spend. A student budget, after all, is a formula based on cost-cutting, selective purchases, savings, and occasional...

Customers are a business's most valuable resource, and knowing what a customer is looking for is vital for every business endeavor. How a customer views a business, or a company is essential for business operations, since it impacts its overall reputation. Therefore, to truly attain success, putting the customer and...

With all the research and evidence on benefits of being methodical, why are so many top executives hares rather than tortoises? Here are five benefits of slowing down that will give you pause. Many business leaders and entrepreneurs believe that the key to getting ahead is to go-go-go, work at...

Can social entrepreneurship contribute to a better future for the world? Paths of Greece is a Social Co-operative Enterprise that was founded 12 years ago. Fivos Tsaravopoulos is the general manager of Paths of Greece, and his vision for the company is to help Greece become one of the top...

26.5% of administrative roles are being misrepresented, or worse, left out altogether when it comes to company organisational charts, a recent survey by the Australian Admin Awards shows. The Australian Admin Awards recently conducted a survey experiment through their Instagram and LinkedIn profiles to ascertain where assistants sit on their...

Several years ago, I was speaking to an investment manager who constantly delivered a good and steady financial performance. I asked him what his investment principles were. One of them, he said, was that he never invested in anything that was labeled as ‘exciting.’ His view was that exciting things...