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Are You Ready For More? Most people wait for a promotion or a performance review to tell them it’s time to grow. You don’t need any of that because you already know it’s time. You need a reset, a plan, and the confidence to lead yourself into the new year. Join me on December 17,…

Stop posting your random thoughts and feelings to social media. It’s weird. I’m not saying that from a high horse. I’m saying it from the front seat of the same clown car. Who are you talking to? Who am I talking to? Why are we performing our loneliness in public like it’s a talent show?…

I’ve been giving a virtual talk called “Ready for More” to employees and leaders at learning events, lunch-and-learns, and sales meetings. It’s about taking ownership of your work, making wise decisions, inspiring others, and finding momentum in a world that won’t stop changing. I’ve shared it with Fortune 100 companies, tech firms, healthcare groups, nonprofits,…

“If you were my wife, I wouldn’t let you do this job.” A friend said that to me in 2010. We were offstage at a conference, and I’d just shown him the emails I was getting. Vulgar, obscene, stomach-turning messages. He was horrified. This was fifteen years ago. We were younger, optimistic, and the business…

There’s a lot of chatter on LinkedIn lately about how HR needs to be “AI fluent.” It sounds urgent. Strategic. Maybe even inevitable. It’s also mostly nonsense. The people pushing this idea often mean well. They want human resources and talent-focused professionals to understand how large language models (LLMs), automation, and predictive tools might reshape…