It has been said that those who made financial resolutions at the beginning of 2015 are more likely to be more optimistic and feel more financially secure as we begin 2016.  Just making a plan and resolving to improve financial well-being seems to have big benefits,...

What to do you see? 　When I look at this image, I see life and wisdom and experience and history and love and stories that make my head spin. This is Grandma Kay. She is a brilliant, loving, cantankerous, feisty, opinionated and devoted mother of 1, grandmother of 2,...

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”- Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder. Nobody builds a company to stagnate. You build it to grow and often to sell. Understanding your company value is critical. In most cases that means building on...

There is a definite shift in the language of health care these days … for a number of years we have been hearing words like “accountability”, “transparency”, and “collaboration”. Or you might have heard the terms “governance”, “integration”, and “evidence-based”.  But...

I’m a firm believer that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ and subscribe to the notion that as long as we are learning and growing, we continue to ‘be raised’. During a recent coaching session with a client whose background goes from law enforcement to...

Toronto Blue Jays fans were disappointed this week to hear that the team’s 2015 “Rent-an-Ace”, David Price, has signed a new contract with the Boston Red Sox. The contract is reputedly for 7 years and 217 million dollars. It occurred to me that here was some...