Author name: Laura Close

The key to a great, successful fight that moves your strategy forward is to pick the overlooked, undervalued or forgotten aspect in your landscape that aligns with core business or core leadership goals.

We are for people who love to work. People who always need a mountain to climb, for people who know

The book Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff is a secret weapon in our arsenal of senior and executive level career coaching. But

Measure What Matters will make you want to go disrupt something nearby –like inefficiencies and broken team alignment at work. Riot like a middle manager. Is this why our startup clients love it the hardest?

How do you think Zuckerberg prepared for the congressional hearings? By skimming his resume? No. He wore fabulous clothes, had an A-team grill him in mock hearing preparations, just like we do in our private work together.

Apparently it’s hard for me to talk about soft power strategies for professionals without sounding like a total jerk. Let’s dive in.

Some of you already know I love working with immigrants. Fresh off the boat, first generation in the States, I’ll take it all.

On any given month one of the local behemoths –Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft has a director or manager in my office bracing for their ReOrg. Here are four common ways that stress among staff manifests in the work environment..

Endless multitasking, I would suggest, is a behavior ultimately rooted in anxiety. It lands in the body at the same vibration as fear.

Work no longer requires you to serve one master employer, work no longer even requires you to be rigorously tested in every aspect of what you produce. Work now requires that you grow continuously as a person.