By Emily Kestel Say you’re in an all-staff meeting the day after a poor quarterly sales earning report comes out. The mood in the room is tense, but nobody’s mentioning it, preferring instead to focus on the sales team’s wins in hopes of boosting morale. Or maybe you’ve got a Read more…
By Emily Kestel Despite controlling a sizable chunk of the wealth in the United States and often serving as primary financial decision-makers in households, women face many systemic and personal barriers when it comes to financial empowerment. For starters, there’s a knowledge and confidence gap when it comes to financial education in Read more…
By Nataliya Boychenko Stone, employee benefits consultant, shareholder, Holmes Murphy Editor’s note: This column first appeared on the Holmes Murphy blog. Nataliya Boychenko Stone was part of the Business Record’s 2020 Women of Influence class. As I watch the tragedy and events unfold in Ukraine, it is like watching a Read more…
By Suzanna de Baca, president and CEO, Business Publications Corp. Recently, someone asked me to be a part of a very worthwhile civic project and I heard the word “yes” coming out of my mouth even though the words going through my head were: “You don’t have time right now.” Read more…
By Emily Kestel Since the beginning of the Fearless initiative, we’ve been adamant about connection being one of its core values. Women are often seen as the glue that holds communities together – but women often lack opportunities to sit at tables where decisions are made about how the communities Read more…
By Brittany Heard, lead adviser, Foster Group Clients are more interested than ever in aligning their investments with their beliefs and values. This may be correlated to the fact that people are more likely to work in jobs that they feel reflect their values compared to prior years. That’s why Read more…
Tell us about a time you were fearless. I’ve done hard things before. I moved to New Mexico at 21 years old by myself. I worked as a hospital chaplain, repeatedly walking into the worst moments of strangers’ lives. I gave birth to two children with no pain medication. I Read more…
By Emily Kestel, Fearless editor One year ago, vaccinations against COVID-19 were just becoming widely available. Health care workers were optimistic that the public would largely accept the vaccine and the light at the end of the tunnel was nearing. Close to 500,000 Americans had died from COVID-19 – 5,000 Read more…
By Suzanna de Baca, president and CEO, Business Publications Corp. What have you said yes to? Once I said yes to a job that paid much less than I had been making, required relocation from a city I loved, and involved personal danger. Why? I believed so deeply in the Read more…
By Emily Kestel, Fearless editor I have to believe that one of the most common questions professional athletes get asked is what advice they’d give to others. Retired professional soccer player Mia Hamm doled out several words of wisdom at the annual Greater Des Moines Partnership Dinner, all of which Read more…