What is “power”? Alina Okun of Analytic Partners captured it perfectly when she said, “Power is the ability to impact outcomes,” at the recent event at New York City’s Cipriani celebrating women’s rising power produced by Crain’s New York business journal. Here are “power tips” from the Crain’s NY 50 Most Powerful Women event: 1.… Continue reading Power Tips from the 50 Most Powerful Women of Crain’s New York
Guest blog by Mary Juetten, Founder and CEO of Traklight In the world of clean technology innovation, how to protect your technology is a key issues that can make or break your success. While many companies are driven to be “first to market” in their industry or use, it’s important to take time to ensure… Continue reading Protecting Your Innovation: Technology and Intellectual Property Protection, including Patents
How do you position yourself to be a “media magnet” and monetize the exposure? How can you build your audience and touch more people without hiring a PR firm? Listen to GC’s Joan Michelson’s short interview with the effervescent Geeta Nadkarni – who wowed the audience of 1700 professional speakers at the National Speakers Association… Continue reading From the National Speakers Association: Geeta Nadkarni
The 2015 annual conference of the 42-year-old National Speakers Association focused on “influence,” made me reflect on the fact that we are “influencing” people in every conversation no matter how small, and how important influence is to achieving our goals. We influence our teams, our bosses, our friends, our family members, our neighbors — even… Continue reading Having ‘Influence:’ Top 10 Takeaways From the National Speakers Assn. Conference
Grapes as eyeballs? Coach, author and speaker, Laurie Guest explains to host Joan how to interject stories, images and humor into your conversations and presentations to engage and influence your audience. That can be a lunch meeting for two, an internal meeting of five, or a conference with hundreds. Live from the National Speakers Association… Continue reading From the National Speakers Association: Laurie Guest on Influencing your Audience
Do you want to grow your career? Feel stuck? David Dye, a leadership and career coach who is president of Trailblaze Inc., explains practical things you can do and say at work tomorrow to boost your performance and your career success in this in-depth interview with Green Connections’ host Joan Michelson. Do you manage a… Continue reading From the National Speakers Association: We Can Do It! Conversation with David Dye
Are you a change agent? Do you want to move up in your organization – or any organization? Then listen to Joan’s fascinating conversation with “The Dragon Lady of Leadership Accountability” Liz Weber, CEO of Weber Business Services. Especially if you’re a woman…. Liz and Joan reveal behaviors and strategies that can help leaders, change… Continue reading From the National Speakers Association: “The Dragon Lady of Leadership Accountability” Liz Weber
You may be sitting on plastic bottles in your car! Carol Kordich, head of Global Sustainable Fabric Strategies and Development at Ford Motor Company explains to Joan how significant parts of several Ford cars and trucks are made from sustainable materials, including seat fabric made in part from the REPREVE material that turns plastic water… Continue reading Carol Kordich, Director of Sustainable Materials at Ford
I was having my computer serviced at the Pentagon City Mall in a D.C. suburb last week when I discovered that the mall does not recycle. Really? In 2015? The computer folks recycle them themselves. This shopping mall is managed by Simon Properties, a huge global property management company whose website says it operates 109… Continue reading Will It Matter? The Pope, the Environment and Six Tips
Janet Crawford, M.A., is CEO of Cascadance, “aligning business and biology for organizational excellence.” She has over 15 years of experience working with executives in Fortune 500 companies and high potential start-ups and a pioneer in the application of neuroscience research findings to leadership and organization culture. So, what is neuroscience-informed leadership? How can companies… Continue reading Neuroscience-informed Leadership
