We Should Start Recess in the Workplace

Why is recess not incorporated into the workplace? Recess: A regularly scheduled period during the school day for students to engage in physical activity and play with their peers. A concept that is deeply embedded in educational systems around the world and incorporated into the average school day, but not workday. My experience with recess […]

New Year, New Career? Coaching Can Help

At the start of every new year, people take the time to reflect on their lives and question their personal status quo. This questioning can often lead them to wonder if their current job is the right fit for them. Moreover, there have never been so many people rethinking their careers in general given the […]

The Easy Way to Talk About Money

Finances made simple by Tina Hay, founder of Napkin Finance Personal finances can be complicated. Everyone handles money differently, and many people don’t go into much detail about their situations. Much of people’s decision making has to do with how they were raised, or their personalities and habits, and ultimately how much they know about […]

Find Your Passion?

When people ask for career advice, the most common response is “find your passion.” The phrase, apart from being incredibly vague, can also be incredibly misleading. Passion is not just highly subjective and open to interpretation, but it is also incredibly abstract. The lack of direction makes it a terrible place to start. The better […]

Successful People Use Coaches

As pointed out by accountability coach Kiera MacDonald in the title of her article, successful people have coaches. This is a constant fact across countless fields. Sports? Professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo still values his coach’s advice at 36 years old. Politics? Barack Obama, former president of the United States, turns to a coach for […]

How Can Coaching Help You?

An article released by the Harvard Business Review posed an important question in the title: What can coaches do for you? As authors Diane Coutu and Carol Kauffman point out in their research, the coaching industry’s rapid evolution over the past ten years created so many misconceptions and blurred lines, that even most interested clients […]

5 Steps to Ease Your Transition out of Wall Street

Camilla Gazal and Flavia Naslausky are two women who understand how to make the transition from Wall Street to starting a small business. Camilla and Flavia first met on Wall Street where they launched their careers in the finance industry. When the markets crashed in the 2008 financial crisis, Camilla and Flavia decided that they […]