When I was interviewed for my first job in media my soon-to-be new boss asked me how I felt about change. My response was easy. I loved it. That was why I was sitting in his office. I was looking for change. I wanted a new direction. I hadn’t been in the workforce for very […]
Bahriye Goren-Gulek on Mindfulness And Other Leadership Skills You Might Not Have Considered Before: Episode #62
This week Joanne is in conversation with Bahriye Goren-Gulek, a brand strategy expert who has worked across the globe on both the client and agency side with organizations including Unilever, Kantar, Wallace Church, and The Art of Branding USA. Bahriye is the author of Be: Become Your True Self and Inspire Those Around You and […]
Cecile Hofer on Leadership, Empathy and the State of the Workplace: Episode #38
Joanne’s guest this week is Cecile Hofer, the Co-Managing Partner of Amrop, Hofer Tan, a global executive search and leadership consulting firm based in Singapore. Cecile offers her global perspective on leadership, empathy as a job qualification, and the state of the job market as we move into a post-pandemic world. They also chat about […]
7 Reasons You Should Be Taking Notes
There was a time my mind was a steel trap. I didn’t need to take notes. Taking notes was for old people. I remembered everything and forgot nothing. But I took notes anyway. I’ve always liked taking notes. If I was sitting in a lecture or at a conference, opening to a fresh page on […]
When You Need A Leader And There Is None To Be Found
Every time my mother says to me that she has never seen things as bad as they are now it tugs on my heart. My mother is 96. She was born into the Great Depression, lived through WWll, lost her mother when she was seventeen and one of her brothers when he was nineteen. She […]
