Career Conversations
Winning the Battle in Your Head
We all struggle with self-doubt, but it's a battle in our heads that we must win. Tune in to hear some tips to address it.
Taking the First Steps
When taking the first steps, it is important to fail often, fail fast and fail forward. Join me and Peter Ruppert, the author of Limitless and CEO at Fusion Education Group, as we sit down and talk about taking the first steps.
Finding a Champion
Sometimes, we need others to lean on to achieve our goals. This week, Peter Ruppert and I share our thoughts about the importance of finding mentors and those who will push you to achieve your goals.
Are You Motivated by Fear or Failure?
What motivates you to win: the opportunity to win or the fear of failure? I've heard this question asked to sports people often, and I've heard varying answers. Some people want to win. They're obsessed with winning, very competitive, and that's what...
Open Communication Portals
Find a portal with your teams and your kids to open lines of communication. I do this a lot with my kids. As I've said, they're all off at college and I'm an empty nester now. How do I stay in touch with them? One way I keep in touch with my sons is...
Manage Your Calendar
Leaders and non-leaders alike, I see too many people who don’t do a good job organizing and managing their calendars. They say yes to everything, or there’s no plan, and their calendar is all over the place. Then guess what happens? They lose control, and everyone...
Connect With Your Team
Leaders, stop working all the time and get with your people. One of the common mistakes I see in leadership is leaders that are just focused on doing the work all day, every day. They're in their office working on their laptops, and they don't come out. Leaders,...
Put Yourself Out There
Let's talk about putting yourself out there and the benefits of meeting new people. This fall, all my kids will be going away to college. One of my sons will be a junior, the other will be a senior, and my daughter will be a freshman. One thing we talk about is...
Embrace Adversity
"If you use adversity right, it will buy you a ticket to a place you couldn't have gone any other way!" This is a quote I saw by Tony Bennett, the University of Virginia men's basketball coach. For those who remember, the University of Virginia was...
Fall in Love With the Problem
Fall in love with problems first, then focus on solutions! Too often, when I have a problem in life, I find myself looking for a solution as fast as possible. I’m a leader and a problem solver; it’s what I do at work and in my personal life. I’m...
Embrace the Good, Bad & In Between
Good days, bad days and in between days, you need them all to grow! Embrace them all; they're all a part of the journey. In my last blog, Life Is A Series of Calibrations, I talked about calibrating my golf swing, personal life and professional life...
Life Is A Series of Calibrations
Calibrate your golf shot, business and life! Recently, I've been taking some golf lessons. One reason is because I need them, and another is because my kids are older and going off to college. I have more free time without as many practices, games or...
All Gas, No Brakes
“All gas, no breaks!” I love that phrase and what it represents: hammering all the time and always going forward. However, the truth is that we all need brakes. I need breaks, and I need to put them on for myself, and my team needs breaks from me...
About Me
I am the President & CEO of Service Express, a National Best & Brightest Company to Work For. Service Express has averaged double digit growth every year since 2001.
We attribute our success to a unique corporate culture that we call The Service Express Way. I am a member of the Young President Organization and sit on the Board of the Spectrum Health Foundation.
