Ken Baugh: One Company, Nearly Four Decades of Workplace Transformation
Careers, in this industry as in most others, are usually told through a chain of job titles, each one a rung on a ladder leading somewhere else. Ken Baugh’s story resists that shape entirely. He has spent nearly four decades at the same company, joining Pivot Interiors Inc. in 1988 and eventually becoming its President […]
Joseph P. Lozowski: How a Failing Dealership Became One of North America’s Largest Interior Solutions Providers
In 2002, somebody had to want a failing business badly enough to buy it. Most people would have looked at the books and walked away. Joseph P. Lozowski looked at the same books and saw the outline of something else entirely. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Tangram Interiors, a title he has […]
Tony Nelson: The Architect of Workplaces That Outlast the Furniture Inside Them
There is a particular kind of expertise that cannot be taught in a classroom or simulated in a training module. It accumulates slowly, through years of watching people move through spaces, of listening carefully to what a client says and even more carefully to what they do not say, of learning the difference between a […]
Matt Krall: Beyond Inspiration: Installing the Behaviors That Drive Performance
There is a moment that Matt Krall returns to, again and again, in conversation and in his work. It is not a boardroom triumph or a product launch or the signing of a consequential deal. It is, in his telling, a very ordinary Tuesday afternoon. The pressure is high. The data is incomplete. The calendar […]
J. Michael Daniel: How One Man Turned Government Service Into a Force for Collective Security
There is something quietly paradoxical about the work J. Michael Daniel does every day. He spends his time convincing rival companies, companies that compete aggressively for the same clients, the same contracts, and the same credibility, to hand each other their most sensitive intelligence. He asks them to trust one another with information they would […]
Parker Conrad: The Man Who Set Out to Untangle the Knot at the Heart of Every Company
There is a particular kind of frustration that every HR manager, payroll administrator, and business founder knows intimately. It is the frustration of doing the same thing twice, or three times, or twelve times. A new employee joins the company, and suddenly someone has to enter their name into the payroll system, then into the […]
Safwan Shah: The Aerospace Engineer Who Landed in Finance and Decided to Change It Entirely
There is something quietly extraordinary about the career of Safwan Shah. He trained as an engineer, earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder, and was awarded the Norlin Award, the university’s highest honor. Then he looked at the financial services industry and saw something that looked, to him, like a […]
Steve Goldberg: Thirty Years, Three Continents, and the Relentless Pursuit of HR Technology That Actually Delivers
Some careers are built in a single lane. Steve Goldberg’s is not one of them. Over more than three decades, Steve has occupied nearly every vantage point that the HR and human capital management space has to offer. He has been the practitioner inside the enterprise. He has been the product strategist at one of […]
Josh Bersin: The Analyst Who Made It His Life’s Mission to Make Work Life Better, One Research Report at a Time
There is a particular kind of influence that does not announce itself loudly. It moves through industries quietly, in the form of ideas that practitioners adopt without always knowing exactly where they first heard them, in frameworks that HR leaders use without necessarily remembering when those frameworks became part of how they think. Josh Bersin […]
Evan Perdikouris: Building High-Performance Teams Rooted in Trust
Leadership often gets reduced to numbers on a dashboard or slogans on a wall. Some leaders chase results and forget the people who produce them. Others talk about culture but struggle to create measurable progress. The tension between performance and connection is real. The strongest organizations learn how to hold both. For more than two […]
Karen Koenig: The Financial Advisor Who Flies Harleys and Fortifies Futures
There is a certain kind of freedom that can only be understood on the back of a Harley-Davidson, a feeling of command over your own direction as the landscape of Surprise, Arizona, unfolds around you. For Karen Koenig, this is not just a weekend hobby; it is a metaphor for a life lived on her own […]
Brian Briscoe: Pioneering the Path to Apartment Investing Success
In the realm of real estate investing, the prevailing belief often centers on the purchase and management of single-family homes. However, Brian Briscoe, the Founder and Visionary of Streamline Capital Group, is challenging this perception. He offers individuals to invest in apartments without the hassles of day-to-day management. Investors can participate in their ventures, acquire ownership shares commensurate with […]
