The Art of Evolving As A Modern Millennial Family: Part 1

by admin | Mar 27, 2018 | Culture, Emotional Intelligence, Experience, Millennial, Values

In the past three years, my family has shifted, broken, ebbed, and flowed more than bottles of liquor on a cruise ship battling rough seas. We made sweeping changes, we reversed roles. I retired early to stay home with two young children, we moved to a different city...

Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

by admin | Mar 12, 2018 | Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Experience, Leadership

Why Leaders Must Prioritize Human Values Over Power: Lessons from the Harvard Business Review There’s an article on leadership in the Harvard Business Review titled, “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” The author, Bill Taylor, posits that businesses create...

Informational Interviews: How Drinking Lattes Landed Me 4 Jobs

by admin | Mar 6, 2018 | Culture, Engagement, Experience, Leadership, Millennial, Reflection

How to Land Multiple Job Offers Using Informational Interviews: A Step-by-Step Guide As a result of drinking copious amounts of soy, sugar-free vanilla lattes, I landed not one, not two, not three, but four jobs. Four! Okay, it wasn’t just those daily Starbucks trips...

What Dr. Seuss and Autism Can Teach Us

by admin | Feb 27, 2018 | Culture, Diversity, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Experience, Inclusion, Millennial, Mindfulness, motherhood, Values

The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Sam I Am, The Sneetches, The Grinch are well loved Dr. Seuss personalities in The Ranno household. With three book-loving children, we have spent eight years enjoying the rhythms, delighting in the whimsical stories, and taking away...

The Places We’ll Go

by admin | Feb 19, 2018 | Culture, Engagement, Experience, Leadership, Reflection

As a child growing up in our family we read a lot, however, Dr. Seuss books weren’t a regular in our library. Instead, I gained an appreciation for his writings as an adult early in my career. From that, you may think my early career was in children’s education, but I...