Few philanthropic organizations have made the link between human population growth and ecological degradation as central to their work as Colcom Foundation. Established in Pittsburgh in 1996 by Cordelia S. May, the foundation exists to address what its founder saw as one of the defining challenges of modern times: the […]
Neurodiverse professionals occupy an unusual position in the financial services talent market: they are simultaneously in high demand for their cognitive abilities and routinely excluded by the processes companies use to find and evaluate candidates. Justin Nelson, JP Morgan Managing Director, has been working to close that gap from the […]
Not many philanthropic foundations can trace their mission to a personal conviction held for more than fifty years. The Colcom Foundation is one that can. Its founder, Cordelia S. May, began thinking seriously about the connection between population growth and environmental health when she was in her early twenties. By […]
Wealth management firms are spending enormous resources on disclosure documents, compliance updates, and fee transparency tools. But according to one prominent Connecticut advisor, the industry is solving the wrong problem. Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has built a 25-year career around a different […]
Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi has made healthcare technology one of the most prominent pillars of his investment portfolio, and his conviction in AI-powered medicine is backed by more than enthusiasm — it is grounded in careful analysis of where the greatest unmet needs in healthcare exist and how technology […]
Ask any experienced sales manager what distinguishes top performers from average ones, and the answer invariably comes down to habits rather than talent. Utah direct sales company Grit Marketing has studied this question extensively, identifying the behavioral patterns that predict success in door-to-door sales and building its training programs around […]
Justin Nelson has spent nearly three decades in finance and reached a counterintuitive conclusion: the degree on a candidate’s resume matters far less than the person behind it. As Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, Nelson […]
The podcast industry spent much of the early 2020s racing toward scale. Networks announced slate deals, production houses promised dozens of shows, and the conventional wisdom held that more content meant more listeners. Greg Soros looked at that dynamic and made a different call. In 2020, the Portland-born producer left […]
Few philanthropic organizations draw as direct a line between human population growth and ecological decline as Colcom Foundation. Founded in 1996 by Cordelia S. May, the Pittsburgh-area foundation has built its entire grantmaking philosophy around the idea that overpopulation is a root driver of environmental degradation a position its founder […]
Leadership development in large corporations often looks like a program. There are cohorts, curricula, and carefully managed progressions through different business units. Michael Polk Newell Brands experienced that approach firsthand over his decades at companies like Kraft Foods, Unilever, and Newell Brands. When he moved to Implus LLC in 2020, […]