Getting Return on Your Eco-Investment: A Primer on Green Marketing in Dental...
This is a piece I wrote for Burkhart, a dental distributor, and their annual green dental practices publication back in 2012. I thought I’d share with you because many of the points made here are...
View ArticleFacebook Wants Me to Leave
I want to preface this post by saying that I am an avid social media user. I’d go so far as to say I’m an addict. I am constantly checking in with Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and LinkedIn. I...
View ArticleFor Science! The Perfect Egg
I love to cook. I can put together a tasty, healthy meal from whatever is in my pantry and in my fridge at the time. The one thing that has eluded me was the perfect hard-boiled egg. It’s like...
View ArticleLessons in Kindness from My Five-Year-Old: Be Kind to Yourself
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. Read the original copy here. As hard-working professionals, we all know the importance of being able to juggle multiple priorities. I may start my...
View ArticleSeizing Opportunities: Riding the Storm When Customers Go Social
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. Read the original copy here. Photo credit: Andy Mitchell This is a long one, but it’s a complex topic that so many brands get wrong. Stick with me...
View ArticleLessons in Kindess from My Five-Year-Old: Be Kind to Others
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. Read the original copy here. “[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” ― Jim Henson, It’s Not Easy Being...
View ArticleTactical Bridge Building (or Why Your Customers Don’t Trust You)
Image Credit: Nicolas Raymond This article was originally published on LinkedIn. Read the original copy here. Commitment. It’s a word we in the business world use a lot when talking about our...
View ArticleBias, Conflict & Kaizen: When Complacency Becomes Complicity
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. Read the original here. Every day business operations often require collaboration across a variety of functional teams within your organization....
View ArticleInnovation Is Not the Goal; It’s the Method
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. See the original here. In the tech industry, the word “innovative” is often used synonymously with “successful.” After all, tech firms who fail to...
View ArticleMy Dog Loves Working From Home: 8 Tips for Making the Most of Working Remotely
This article was originally posted on LinkedIn. See the original here. This is Dash. He’s a 6-year-old Jack Russell Terrier and he loves that I work from home. Someone commented to me once, while I...
View ArticleDear Facebook – It’s Not Me, It’s You.
This article was originally posted on LinkedIn. See the original here. Yesterday, I broke up with Facebook, with intention and with purpose. As they say, “not every relationship has to last forever...
View ArticleFinding Space: Purpose & Mindfulness in Your Every Day Life
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. View the original post here. Balancing 2 young children, a very busy tech career, school, and managing my household, I think quite a lot about living...
View ArticleLessons from my (almost) 7-year-old: What Did You Learn Today?
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. View the original post here. One of the first questions that I always ask my daughter when I pick her up from school, aside from “how was your day?,”...
View ArticleHomework is Teaching Our Kids Terrible Lessons on Work-Life Balance; It’s...
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. See the original here. I was shocked when I learned that my kindergartner had homework last year. A 5-year-old, who spends 6.5 hours a day in the...
View ArticleHumble Leadership: The Power of Apology
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. See the original here. A good leader knows how to take action with authority. A great leader knows that he or she is neither the expert on all...
View ArticleThe 140-Character Lesson: Better Business Communication for Women
It’s amazing what a vacation can do for clarity of mind. About two days into my “momcation” – as I was basically live-tweeting my solo jaunt into Canada – I finally internalized the message: Women say...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of American Millenials
I am not going to tell you how to manage millennials. There are already 549,000 Google results you can look through for advice from all the “experts” on decoding the secret language of my alien...
View ArticleIt’s okay to have a bad day.
I’ve only once read an explanation about dieting that made any sense to me at all. The basic gist of the advice was this: One bad day does not negate all the other good days. The concept is simple....
View ArticleHumble Leadership: Don’t Drown In Your Own Kool-Aid
I hate corporate jargon. So, just for a Friday dose of irony, here’s an article chock full of cliches and jargon. There is a saying that is oft used by leaders in the context of employee motivation:...
View ArticleThere is no big stick of empathy: 5 Tips for Building Empathetic Teams
The practical application of empathy to leadership strategies is a topic that has fascinated me for a long while. Empathy is the ability to understand and feel from another person’s perspective without...
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