Your COHORT is OPEN! 🥳

As everything we know about the way we work has continued to shift, you might find yourself totally stressed and overwhelmed. And if you’re a people manager—one of the MVPs of the last few years—you’ve played (and will continue to play) a critical role leading through these times. In other words, managers are having a […]

Loneliness is still a thing

Last week, at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival, I attended two sessions that were so oversubscribed that people were actually sitting on the floor. Surprisingly, these were not the sessions with tech guru Kara Swisher and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, or even the session with author Michael Lewis talking about Sam Bankman-Fried. The standing-room-only sessions were Dr. […]

I deleted instagram

For the last 19 years (except during Covid), I’ve gone away by myself once a year to take a break, get off my technology, and just relax. This year my reset ritual took place over Memorial Day weekend, and as a bonus, I brought my two daughters. As we drove out of NYC to the […]

Is it enough to just listen?

It’s pretty impressive how ChatGPT or any other AI tool can respond to a basic question and spit out the answers. So fast! Or find information that gets a conversation started. Or even “sit in” on a meeting and take notes. Or any number of other data-centered tasks. In a sense, AI can listen, but […]

The chat was on fire 🔥

Last week I hosted a free event called The Case for Community: The ROI of IRL Connection as a preview of a new keynote + workshop I’m offering. The chat was so full of comments and questions I couldn’t get to them all, so I wanted to follow up. Here are just a few: – “People often commute […]