Lisa-Maree Blumenfeld, the founder of Retain, LLC, is an accomplished HR professional who has held many leadership roles for clients in a wide array of industries. Her vast experience spans from fast-moving startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Over the past few years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of women in leadership roles, with each one helping organizations reshape how they view success, power, and leadership. Brenda Demers, CEO of SmartyPants Vitamins, is no exception. She is a brilliant leader showing loyalty, dedication, and a willingness to go the extra mile to ensure success for her organization.
Learn what you need to learn before you need to know it, because you will get asked…once. It is a prerequisite of representing any industry that you and your team understand that industry at a deep and comprehensive level. You can fake it but not for long.
The above words are etched in Berno Stoffel’s office as a poster. These words perfectly describe Berno’s nature—100% solution-oriented and forward-thinking, always keeping the big picture in mind, always acting in the interest of the cause. Berno is a rare combination of unshakable optimism – the glass is never only half full, but always complete
The business world is competitive, and it takes a special kind of leader to succeed. A successful business leader can motivate and inspire their team,
A good business leader is essential to the success of any team. They are the ones who set the vision, motivate the team, and make the tough decisions.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court rejected affirmative action in college admissions, leading business leaders to ask whether their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts could be interpreted as unlawful. Following the ruling, at least one US senator sent threatening letters to hundreds of private employers warning them that certain diversity practices could subject them costly litigation. And other companies are already being sued over policies they have enacted on social issues such as race and gender. For example, this week a conservative legal organization sued Target on behalf of an investor over LGBTQ-themed merchandise.
Steve Cadigan, LinkedIn's first Chief Human Resources Officer and author of Workquake, wrote in the Foreword of my book Humony Leadership, "Most legacy leadership models strive to achieve control, consistency, and reliable outcomes. As we all have come to realize in recent years, in a world where so much is unknown, and the pace of change is relentless, what we really need is a model to help us expect change and instability."
In the dynamic business realm, leadership is the compass steering organizations toward success. Picture a CEO as a conductor guiding an orchestra
The breakneck rate of innovations and the tsunami of technological advancements driven by artificial intelligence, esp., ChatGPT, signals that a futurist view of leadership is more important than ever.
Twenty-plus years ago, Joel Barker presented a perspective on leadership from his paradigm as a futurist. Barker defined a leader as “Someone you choose to follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” That place is the future. He further recognized that a leader is someone who will “Find, Recognize, and Secure the Future.”
