While most people celebrate MLK Day by volunteering in their communities or just enjoying a day off, I honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy year by climbing Mount Diablo.  One of the things I love most about the Bay Area is exploring the seemingly endless number of parks and hiking trails, but the combination of Read more...

Following on my prior post from Bobbie LaPorte’s talk on Achieving a High Quality Work and Personal Life,  I wanted to delve a little deeper into the insights Bobbie shared about staying focused on What Matters to You Most. Bobbie posed some good questions that I’ve been trying to work on daily: Do your commitments Read more...

At WIC’s General Meeting on January 16th, Bobbie LaPorte, Leadership and Career Coach at RAL & Associates, presented “Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: How to Have a Successful Business and High Quality Life”. I really enjoyed hearing Bobbie’s insights.  Balancing work and personal life is an issue I can always learn more about, Read more...

Please join the WIC community at the January 29 Workshop when Liz Williams, founder of Collaboration Zone, will teach you how to drive project success through better collaboration. As founder of Collaboration Zone, Liz helps executives, managers, and consultants take their meetings from mind-numbing to soul-stirring by teaching, coaching in real-time, and modeling a simple Read more...

As I was emptying out the end of the massive Costco package of oatmeal into our oatmeal container (yes, honey – we did use it all!), I noticed the famous Quaker Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe on the bottom of the box.  My next thought was that I should make some of those cookies soon.  Read more...

I would have to say S-Corporations are my favorite entity.  Why?  Because the entity has many options and advantages.  Some of the advantages are that they have a liability protection, if the business operates legitimately, as well as no double taxation with distributions and losses typically reduce other personal income.  Here is a checklist that Read more...

I DEFINITELY know from prior experience that keeping in touch with my amazing database which consists of prospects/former clients as well as potential project partners and referral sources is my most productive marketing work, but I shy away from it for a myriad of reasons. I recently read a great blog by business coach, C.J. Read more...

Last Thursday, December 12th, Women in Consulting released the full results of our 12th Annual Best Practices and Compensation Survey.  The survey found that while gross revenue of top Bay Area consultants increased dramatically, revenue margins were down, in part due to a decline in the use of consulting best practices.  According to the report, Read more...

What is the value of a retreat?  Insight, clarity, rest, renewal, refreshment, energy, excitement, and more.  The rewards are numerous and powerful.  Yet very few actually give themselves permission to go on retreat.  Especially women. Yet, like exercise, the more someone says she doesn’t have time to do a retreat, the more I would argue Read more...

The post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy started early this year, with some stores actually holding Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving evening.  Just to complicate things, online merchants started holding Black Friday events, and some brick and mortar stores held Cyber Monday sales.  And in the ultimate confusion, Honda had two full weeks of Black Friday sales events...huh? Read more...