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After-Cycle Cohort Connection: Continuing the Conversation
Professional conferences are built around some simple premises: bring people together from across an industry, share knowledge and insight, build career enhancing connections, and teach fundamental and emerging skills to link the next generation to careers and to keep those with experience up Read More
Entrepreneurs, Let’s Talk About Advice
Every professional strives to be an expert in their particular niche. Whether you build the best products or provide the best service, you work tirelessly to ensure you are a thought leader in your industry. Breaking new ground and forging ahead is Read More
Where Did All the Skunk Works Go?
Remember the heady days of skunk works? When the most innovative companies stealthily pushed the envelope, and developed their most advanced products? Covert teams at Lockheed Martin and IBM used this method of development to create game-changers in their respective fields. In this Read More
Changing the Way We View Mentorship
For many people, the idea of having a mentor seems a bit outdated. Traditional perspectives around mentorship don’t fit in the context of the modern day. Mentorship is something that adults do for kids. Or mentorship is a 1-1 relationship with someone in Read More
Let’s Make Mentoring Integral to Modern Society
The pace of information is so rapid that it can feel more than a little overwhelming. With so much available at the click of a mouse, or at the tap of a finger, it seems like we are but one step from any Read More
Building Effective Mentoring Relationships
Eva Yao, Ph.D. Sep 25, 2017 Mentors can be found both in and outside of work. Mentoring is considered a positive activity that allows individuals to learn from role models and with the guidance of a more experienced person. Many employers thus establish Read More
You’ve just had a baby…Now comes the hard part!
Congratulations! That beautiful baby you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. Even better – you’re among the 12% of American workers that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics recognizes for to paid maternity leave! All good things must come to an end; you Read More
Funding a StartUp
So, you have a great business idea and you want to learn about how to get funding? My experience tells me that there are lots of variables that determine if your idea is fundable or not (not the same as if it is Read More
Longing To Change Your Career? Forbes Writer, Kathy Caprino, Offers Advice
Before 9/11, I felt trapped in a 15-year corporate career that didn’t align with my values, preferences, talents and desires. But I had worked so hard to create success and recognition in it that I was, simply speaking, scared to death to let Read More
Are You Helpful Or Hurtful In Your Communications? Here’s Exactly How To Tell
I spend a good deal of my time every day writing, speaking and training, so becoming an effective communicator is something very important to me. Despite my experience, as a former corporate VP, therapist, and now coach and leadership trainer, I don’t always Read More