Futures
Stand and Deliver: Uniting Senses and Fueling the Dialogue Between Brands and Their Audiences with Sasha Wallinger
pushing the boundaries of technology, fashion, and sustainability
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Lisa Gable
Author, former US Ambassador, CEO
Career
Stand and Deliver: Unstuckable Leadership with Heather Kernahan
how to prepare yourself and build the confidence to proel your business and personal growth
Frontier
Stand and Deliver: Combining Creative Problem-Solving With a Passion for Public Good with Laura Kovacevich
Roots Food is on the cutting edge of food innovation, intending to bring unprocessed, clean-label, nutritious food products to improve health and wellness for those in need.
Practice
Stand and Deliver: Mastering the Innovation Mindset with Jennifer Kenny
Bestselling author Jennifer Kenny insights on "Women Catalyzing Innovation" and "Innovate Better Together" provides practical strategies to enhance innovation capacity.
Career
Stand and Deliver: Succeeding Against All Odds with Ungenita Prevost
Ungenita Prevost caught my attention due to her remarkable story of overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges when she aged out of the US foster system, including homelessness, financial insecurity, and parental absence.
Career
Stand and Deliver: Infusing Humanism into Our Workplace with Jennie Byrne, MD, PhD
“Everyone thinks the future of work is about better technology, but ... I am convinced that the future of work is about being a better human.”
Career
Stand and Deliver: Providing Inclusive Access to Safe and Affordable Foods with Emily Brown
The importance of ensuring everyone has access to affordable foods that fit their medical needs.
Frontier
Stand and Deliver: Helping the Underserved Patient with Susan Bratton
“Food As Medicine,” an evolving scientific field where food and nutritional interventions are used like medicine
Money
Stand and Deliver: Saving Democracy One Person at a Time with Tracy Schandler Walder
I chose to interview Tracy Schandler Walder because she has served on the front lines of the fight to preserve democracy and the American dream both at the FBI and CIA.
Futures
Stand and Deliver: Define Who You Are with Laura Thomas
I chose to interview Laura Thomas not only for her brilliant analytical capabilities and her fascinating somewhat nomadic lifestyle, but also because of the laser focused, can-do mindset she brings to every challenge.
Culture
Stand and Deliver: Elevate the Voices of Other Women with Laura Cox Kaplan
Laura Cox Kaplan runs a small media company focused on helping women build and sustain influence in their lives and careers. Influence isn’t a topic we often focus on as it relates to career and personal development and yet it’s essential, especially as we contemplate or plan for future career evolution and pivots—both those we know about and plan for and those that tend to surprise us or that take us off guard.
Futures
Stand and Deliver: Embrace the Challenge of Starting Over with Osnat (Os) Benari
Osnat (Os) Benari is author of the upcoming book, Starting from Scratch, which is about managing change and making smart career choices. She is a product creator and active mentor and is grounded in her belief in the power of women supporting other women.
Frontier
Stand and Deliver: Find Meaning with Purpose, Passion, and Profit with Kathleen Tullie
Kathleen Tullie discusses how life's events made her more empathetic, aware, humble, and resilient. She shows how she takes her experiences, including the building and scaling of an international program, and combines it with her personal passion and experiences to write each chapter of her life.
Career
STAND AND DELIVER: CHOOSE TO LIVE WITH OPTIMISM AND RESILIENCE WITH JULIANN EDWARDS
Interview with Juliann Edwards a woman known for meeting her career goals with commitment and kindness and meeting life’s challenges with fortitude and patience.
Career
Stand and Deliver: Embrace Your Inner Unicorn with Michelle Guillermin
Today’s article is about how to embrace your inner unicorn to achieve inner significance. I chose to interview Michelle Guillermin, because she is a woman known for pursuing the unexpected while applying the mind of a sharp strategist and tactician.
Career
When Your Planned Career Path Is No Longer an Option
Have you been discouraged when expecting a promotion or interviewing for a job, and left the room feeling like you are missing the secret handshake? You are not alone. I have been there many times. Throughout my career, my name has been put forward for positions for which I knew I was qualified, but the hiring committee did not believe I fit the mold. Had I not had the confidence to explore a variety of sectors, I would not be where I am today. I embraced “not fitting the mold” and created my o
Business
End Ghosting by Reintroducing Respect
Who among us hasn’t experienced “ghosting”; an abrupt halt in communications with people with whom we share a business relationship built around agreed upon outcomes? Recently, I executed and delivered my end of a transaction, and the other party disappeared. Gone.
Culture
Regaining Our Lost Art of Decorum
These days when I step into my heels, fix my hair, and enjoy the feel of lipstick after the two-year mask hiatus, my mood subtly shifts back into something I recall! I have more confidence. I feel my spine straightening, my chin elevating, and my shoulders pushing back as I face my next challenge.
Career
When Things Are Going South, Step Up Your Mentorship
When things go south, organizations and individuals swirl and twirl. Perhaps you have a team that not only can’t “shoot straight,” they are engaged in target practice. Tempers flare. Good people get caught in the crossfire. Or even worse, other people begin to tattle. Work can begin to resemble a pre-school sandbox more than a professional environment.
Career
How I Went From Managing Complexity to Becoming a U.S. Ambassador and CEO
For the last 30+ years, I have focused on bringing together political parties, corporate competitors and disparate nations to foster quality leadership, diplomacy and results that better society, creating sustainable partnerships and profitable business models. Has it been easy? By no means. Rewarding? Immensely.