My 18yo Son Shares His Generation's View of Work and Leadership. Plus a High Schooler's Review of Taylor Swift
May 29, 2023
Meet my son Spencer. A tradition of What's Working is to interview my children upon their high school graduation. He's off to the University of Alabama in the fall. We discuss what skills he predicts will be needed in the job market, his prediction of the impact of AI on tomorrow's workplace and where he hopes to land...
A Family Cake Recipe. A High School Class Trip. A Fundraiser. Now April McClung's Pound Cakes are in Sam's.
May 22, 2023
April McClung's sons had a chance to travel abroad as high school students. April needed money to make it happen. A decison was made to use a family member's old pound cake recipe to sell them at farmer's markets. Today those cakes are sold at Sams and have been shipped across the country. Meet April, hear her...
ESG is Here. It's in the Background of Nearly Every Product You Touch. Kai Gray's Consultancy Helps Companies Ready Themselves For It.
May 15, 2023
ESG is not something "out there" or only discussed in political environments. ESG (environmental, social, governance) is here and is shaping the way businesses interact with each other and with customers. Kai Gray and his parters run Motive ESG. They work with businesses to improve their ESG scores, thereby enabling...
Heikki Malinen is CEO of Outokumpu. $10B in Revenue and 10k Employees. He's an Influencer in World Business.
May 8, 2023
I met Heikki Malinen at a conference in Point Clear, Alabama for his company, Outokumpu. His presentation showed a grasp of world events like none I'd seen before. He travels nearly non-stop, visiting the company's stainless steel plants across the world. The war in Ukraine has impacted his company's ability to get the...
Domenick D'Andrea Coaxes a Reluctant Middle Age-Man (Me!) to Dig in on Social Media to Generate Leads
May 1, 2023
I've long been suspcious that social media can do anything for me. For kids today, yes. For me, a middle aged guy? Hardly. Domenick D'Andrea and I met at a conference and he assured me that if I learn how and when to post and what subject matters people want to see, it will generate profitable business leads. I commit...