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Citizenship by investment is one of the most fluid and prominent concepts today. The major reason why the idea has experienced such enormous acceptance is due to the promising opportunities it brings with it. Like many countries, Canada in recent years has become a hotspot for immigrants all across the...

When businesses enter a hypergrowth phase, CFOs have to be as much “Chief Growth Officers” as they are “Chief Financial Officers.” Gone are the days when the CFO’s sole focus was improving cost efficiency through data driven results and cutting costs. Financial solvency is obviously essential, but in the past...

Self-made billionaire, philanthropist, and conservationist are just a few adjectives that describe Brian Sheth. He is the son of an Indian father and an Irish Catholic mother. He grew up in the Boston area and earned an economics degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  After graduation,...

Predictions were rightly cancelled in 2020; instead, benefits professionals look to 2022 with thoughtful planning. One of my new year’s resolutions is to never make another prediction. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that predictions don’t hold much water. Instead, I’ve learned to make flexible plans rather than firm predictions....

We know intuitively that trust is a feeling – often a gut feeling. It cannot be purchased, outsourced, automated, created through a policy or process, or sent out as a message. Trust is an emotion, as it relates to the limbic system, which is also involved in motivation, learning, memory,...

What is common among Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, or the University of Tokyo? They are all famous, among many other things, for their robust research-oriented frameworks ranked among the world’s finest. There are many like them that have established a solid reputation in terms of academic publication, research...

When, as a young man, I set my sights on the future and imagined what it would feel like to have achieved my ambitions, I always pictured a serene version of myself, surveying his achievements with satisfaction, certain of his place in the world. While some of my youthful hopes...

One thing I’ve learned as an executive leader in a Fortune 50 firm and now a small business owner: size doesn’t matter.  For companies large AND small, putting the customer at the center of business decisions is key to long-term success. The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) calls this...

Working while raising a child can be a challenge. Working while raising a child as a single mother brings on an entirely new list of challenges. I happen to be a single mother and have learned a tremendous amount during the process. Prior to being a single mother, I was...

What boards should keep top of mind as they refresh strategies to be future-ready. In brief Management and the board should define “long-term” and develop a strategy that is focused not on where the organization “is going” but where it “can go.” It is essential for an organization’s talent strategy...