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On Managing Purpose-Driven Brands
Communications Cascade Can Elevate an Executive’s Brand
Executive branding involves many facets of maintaining open and clear communications with stakeholders. Ajit Kambil outlines this with his “communications cascade,” which he says provides a systematic approach to enhance and elevate an executive’s brand.
What It Takes to Be a Successful Leader
A CEO’s job is as difficult as it is important. The high standards and broad expectations of key stakeholders including boards, shareholders, consumers, and employees often create an environment of relentless scrutiny. So what attributes are needed to shape the right culture, set the right strategy, and pull together the right team?
Longevity Is an Intentional Outcome
There is an art to building a long and successful career as an executive with one organization. Wendy Baumann of WWBIC shares the keys to a professional mindset that accommodates longevity.
The Value of Working Moms
Working moms are superstars! The pandemic has added new layers to already busy plates for working moms. The division between work and home disappeared while additional caregiving responsibilities piled on. Kimberly Kane talks with three working moms and shares how companies can provided added support.
Pondering the Post-Pandemic Positives
As we see hope on the horizon amidst the pandemic, some positive have emerged. Dave Wendland, vice president of strategic relations of Hamacher Resource Group Inc., shares seven “post-pandemic positives” in this C-Level.
Mastering the Art of Personal Transformation
Entrepreneurs are not strangers to change, especially as industries evolve and shift. E. Keller “Kelly” Fitzsimmons reflects on her journey of reinvention and shares her maxims of personal transformation.
Pivoting is Essential to Leadership Through the Pandemic
As we turn the calendar to 2021, Steve Jagler takes a moment to recapture some of the most profound thoughts of executives featured in C-Level columns over the past year.
Reflections on Leading a Team During a Crisis
The PR and marketing industries were hit hard during the pandemic, with small businesses suffering most. Kimberly Kane reflects on an unusual year and offers advice on how to keep businesses running smoothly during a crisis.
Pay It Forward by Being a Mentor
LaNelle Ramey, executive director of MENTOR Greater Milwaukee (MGM), says mentoring is a way of “paying it forward” for adults who received a guiding hand along the way in their own upbringing as they climbed their career ladders.
Change Management Is Key to Business Survival
Business consultant and author Jim Bohn offers 10 suggestions for business leaders to manage change amid the crises of 2020.
Does Your Business Model Need a COVID-19 Reset?
Retailer Kohl’s adjusted its business model to adapt to the new realities amid the public health crisis and the adjoining recession. Other businesses could learn from these pivots.
Leadership Needs a Compass Amid Chaos
Over the past few weeks, Kenneth Munson, CEO of Community Care, Inc., and I exchanged a series of emails and phone calls about the guiding principles of his leadership style in his career of service to the community.
COVID-19: Our Response
Our team at Kane Communications Group is responding with decades of crisis communications experience.
COVID-19: Focus on Small Business Needs and Crisis Communications
With Wisconsin governor Tony Evers issuing a “Safer at Home” order, business leaders from all over the Milwaukee region continue to learn as they go when it comes to running their businesses.
Leadership Takes Courage
As an entrepreneur and mom of four, I can hardly remember a day that I didn’t reflect on this statement. Hiring my first employee, signing our first office lease, teaching my boys how to drive. Throughout our lives, we encounter countless situations that make us feel unprepared, insecure, even scared. How do we confront these emotions? How do we work through them to discover what’s on the other side? How do we not retreat to what we’ve always known? It takes courage.