A SEAT at THE TABLE: Conversations with Today's Top Industry Leaders
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A SEAT at THE TABLE: Conversations with Today's Top Industry Leaders
Industry leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and authors join us on A Seat at The Table to share their insights and help us build more successful businesses.
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Great Product. Not So Great Sales.
It's a story I hear all the time.
We have a great product, but our sales are not where we want them to be.
Your customers know you, but...
From Overlooked to Influential: The Power of Quiet Presence in Personal Transformation
When your image, presence, and brand aren't aligned, the cost isn't always visible, but it shows up in the rooms you're not invited to, the leadership...
June Market Outlook: From Panic to Disciple
This is a short executive briefing built for sourcing leaders at brands and suppliers who need a fast read on where the market stands right now.
...
The AI Accountability Crisis No One Is Talking About
Everyone feels that agentic AI is the next big thing and that they need to make haste in order to stay ahead of the curve - or at least not be left...
Beyond the Hustle: Transformative Strategies for Calm, Confident Leadership
If you’re like most leaders, you’re facing an increasingly business landscape which is making leadership even more challenging.
The popul...
Real World AI Adoption: What Works and What Fails
There’s an abundance of information about how some of the newer tech solutions work. What tasks we need to consider automating and macro views of how...
Transforming Office Culture: Going from Stress to Success
If you’re like most of us, being able to destress your life - or at least your work life - is something we only dare to dream about .
To...
The Quiet Loneliness of High‑Achievers – and How to Heal It
Are you the person who everyone else leans on — steady, capable, high-functioning?
To the outside world you appear to be unshakable.
Why Your AI Strategy Is Stuck – and How to Fix It
Most of us have used ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot or one of the many AI platforms.
Yet few of us really understand how to integrate AI into...
When Everyone Agrees but Nothing Gets Done
How often have we experienced a meeting that we think went really well. Everyone on the team agreed what needed to be done.
But then no...
The 90-second Reset to Reclaim Your Calm
If you’re like most senior executives, you never get enough rest.
I know I rarely do.
There’s always 10 more things that n...
What it Takes to Build a Successful Tech Product
One of the most difficult things to do is build successful tech products.
That seems counterintuitive at a time when its seems that e...
Smart Scaling: Rethinking Who and How We Hire
One of the biggest challenges for growing companies is not having the staff to help the business get to the next level.
And not having t...
How to Turn Storytelling into a Brand Strategy
Marketing these days feels overwhelming. Most companies lurch between scattered marketing efforts with no clear path to take them from where they are...
Why Successful Founders Have Executive Mentors
We all want to grow our businesses, but often get stuck trying to make that happen.
This can be especially true for leadership at smaller...
UX Band-Aids that Hide Real Problems
Most companies don’t realize that bad UX shows up in support ticket patterns before it shows up in their metrics.
As more organizations...
How Not to Be Decieved By Data
What if we are hardwired to fall victim to data illusions?
Those spurious patterns, those misleading headlines, and and those cognitive t...
How to Make Work Less 'Work'
It seems like no matter how hard we work, no matter how efficient we try to be, there is always more to do than days in the week (and I’m including we...
Evidence-Based Impact: Applying Corporate Rigor to Philanthropy and Beyond
One of the biggest challenges in business is being able to turn one-off projects into repeatable, profitable project management systems.
...
The Key to B2B Sales Mastery: Precision Over Volume
Winning sales isn’t as easy as it used to be - especially in a challenging economic environment with a never ending stream of new competitors coming o...
From Burnout to Buy-In: Navigating Senior Leadership’s Toughest Moments
Sometimes the most difficult challenge senior leadership faces is finding purpose in their work.
It’s not that they don’t care about t...
Modernizing Heritage Brands – Without Losing Their Legacy
One of the biggest challenges companies face is how to maintain their heritage while adapting to changing consumer preferences.
The task...
A Smart New Approach to Building Successful Virtual Teams
Hiring remote staff is not a new concept. Companies get access to a wider talent pool. Can oftentimes arbitrage wages and find people who are eager t...
Making International Payments Simple, Safe and Humanized
Sending international payments is no longer something only large companies do.
Increasingly everyone from startups to individuals are s...
Turning A Business into a Powerful Brand
Everyone wants to build a brand. Not just a brand, but a power brand. A viral brand.
The problem is few companies know how. Most foc...
Tactics for Building Leadership Momentum in Uncertain Times
One of the biggest challenges people in leadership roles face is steering the business while also managing their own careers.
It’s a de...
How To Read a Room – and Close More Deals
Sometimes the key to winning the contract, closing the sale - or even hiring the right team member - comes down to more than what that person says or...
Strategies for Senior Execs Looking for Their Next Career Move
Looking for a job is never easy - or fun. But if you’re a senior level executive, it can be particularly challenging and oftentimes demoralizing.
Building Products That Actually Sell
The tech sector often appears to be a goldmine that anyone with a few coding skills can tap into and reap massive profits - literally overnight.
...
How Product Deficit Quietly Kills Great Companies
Companies dream of building that amazing product that does all kinds of incredible things or has a cool user interface.
It all about th...
A Young Designer Who Takes a Thoughtful Approach to Slow Fashion
Many people dream of starting a fashion brand.
The combination of a doing something creative with the glamour and energy of catwalk sho...
Why Apparel Sourcing Might Be Returning to China
Today supply chain success is driven by a combination of speed, reliability and innovation.
The concept is easy to understand. Executi...
What Top Brands Are Quietly Doing Differently to Beat New Competitors
In the face of rising competition from new brands, more demanding consumers and ever present cost pressures, it’s not easy to run a successful brand.<...
Hidden Inefficiencies Draining Retail Profits
The retail landscape has becoming increasingly challenging with more brands struggling not only with top line growth but also with bottom line perform...
How Activwear Innovation is Influencing Apparel
Activewear continues to be a a top performing apparel category with consumers worldwide having a seemingly insatiable appetite for both the look and t...
Why Brands are Investing in the GCC
In an increasingly competitive retail landscape, more brands are looking for new markets with high growth potential.
That’s put the GCC (...
Building Consumer Engagement with AI Customized Apparel
What happens when an apparel guy decides to found a tech company?
A game-changing concept that can drive retail sales - and build custome...
Why Pakistan Could Be The Next Big Sourcing Country
After being off the sourcing radar for almost a decade, suddenly everyone is starting to talk about Pakistan.
The combination of brands l...
The Critical Role of Human Connection in an AI Driven World
Do people still have employment opportunities in a world increasingly focused on AI?
And if so, where? And what competitive advantage d...
Using Asymmetric Principles to Boost Your Luck
What if you could find a system that maximized luck and generated outsized returns?
A method based on decision science that led you to m...