5 Tips for Getting People to do What You Want Without Asking
Last month I gave a talk at the Roseville Chambers of Commerce. It was a talk on behavioral messaging. Essentially, how to motivate others in […]
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The Marriage of Nature and Business: Comparing Living Systems and Disruptive Entrepreneurship
I love it when ideas converge – especially when they come from very different sources. I’ve been reading The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra […]
Continue reading »How Startup Burnout is Affecting the Wellness Industry
Recently, I met with several fellow wellness professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. We talked about the delicate balance between using technology to promote wellness, […]
Continue reading »3 Leadership Tips for Motivating Your Team
Think about it: everything you do is a behavior, whether it’s eating lunch or designing a new robot. The challenge is, as team leaders we don’t […]
Continue reading »Hacking Mental Health: 4 Important Goals
Last weekend I volunteered as a mental health mentor at the Hack Mental Health event in San Francisco. This first-of-its-kind event was buzzing with energy. […]
Continue reading »3 Wrong Ways to Structure a Corporate Wellness Program: What to do Instead
Recently trending articles such as those featured in Bloomberg and the Chicago Tribune claim that corporate wellness programs don’t work. This is misleading, because the study they are […]
Continue reading »The Era of Purpose: 10 Highlights from BetterUp’s Shift 2018
I was fortunate enough to virtually attend part of BetterUp’s inaugural Shift Conference this week via YouTube livestream. BetterUp is a startup that provides coaching services […]
Continue reading »Design Thinking for Good Governance
Back in grad school, I wrote an National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal called Policy as Design. It was an extension of my work with the Research […]
Continue reading »2 Tips to Reach Your Highest Potential At Work
In follow up to an earlier post about collective intelligence, I want to dig deeper into what makes us give our best at work. In response to my […]
Continue reading »5 Biomimicry Principles for Collective Intelligence
I’ve been reading my esteemed colleague Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker’s Teeming: How Superorganisms Work to Build Infinite Wealth in a Finite World for the past few […]
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