As an entrepreneur, you don’t really get time off. You have to make time, sometimes against all odds. Most people I know who are entrepreneurs and...

What makes a good company culture?  Most leaders think culture is defined by vacation days and work retreats, what games you play in the office and...

Ideas don’t come out of nowhere. Eureka moments are really collisions of prior experiences hitting you all at once—or collisions of ideas between people in moments...

One of my favorite business frameworks is Jeff Bezos’ “Regret Minimization” framework. In a nutshell, when debating within yourself as to whether or not you should...

Change always forces change. When a big company experiences a change—a new CEO or CMO, a new competitor in the market, a shift in the economic...

Content marketing can be incredibly powerful for driving leads for your business. If you know how to do it right. I have been helping brands, businesses,...

Onboarding at a new company is a momentous “first.” And not unlike other major firsts we experience—first day of school, first date, first time in a...

School doesn’t teach you a lot of things. When I was in 3rd grade, I switched school districts and moved to a new town. At the...

Some communication best practices are timeless. In the age of Zoom, Slack, and our hyper-connected “always on” society, a lot has changed over the past decade...

Every entrepreneur faces the same types of challenges. Trying to hire great people Unfortunately having to fire people Maintaining positive, healthy relationships with clients Managing workloads...

Both of my parents are immigrants. My dad came to the US by way of Australia, where he learned English, so his words were buried beneath...

Angel investing is sexy. The moment you say to someone, “I’m an angel investor,” ears perk up. And while most entrepreneurs turned angel investors probably won’t...

The adage, “The rich get richer,” is changing. In a world of advanced medicine, therapeutics, superfoods, and smart devices, the rich are also getting healthier.  One...

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Viral videos all follow the same basic formula. Hook: “Woah, that’s different! You have my attention.” Story: “Take...

I recently gave a presentation for the Consumer Health Summit (CHS) about the fundamentals of building a long-term, sustainable brand. When I was thinking about what...

When a company experiences a crisis, a wartime mentality is necessary. Some crises are outside the company—as we’ve seen with COVID-19 and its impact on businesses...

We don’t think about business meetings the same way we do today as we did 100 years ago. Today’s working culture is more relaxed, more casual,...

In a changing world, what does it mean to stay relevant…or competitive…or better yet, to get ahead. One benefit of COVID has been reinvention. For example,...

I have done Ayahuasca three times. Five or ten years ago, saying that out in the open probably would have prompted a very different response than...

A few weeks ago, I was chatting with a mentee within SAP. This person explained to me that they had inherited a new internal team, and...