Susan Clapham shares an article on how to delight your customers and increase productivity. Delight your customers and deliver 20-30% productivity improvement year-over-year by focusing on maximizing the value-added work (and minimizing the non-value added work). I was reminded of both benefits recently when I was at the post office purchasing international stamps. In addition […]
Ralph Bou Nassif announces a new position. “Those who tell stories rule the world” I’m happy to share that I’m joining the board of directors of Pas à Pas, l’Enfant, a French non-profit helping children learn and grow through the power of storytelling. I’m looking forward to collaborating with their exceptional team and contributing to […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Doron David Grosman. Doron is a serial Board Member, CEO/President and Private Equity Operating Partner with a proven track record achieving record revenue and EBITDA growth at leading private equity and public companies. Most recently Doron was the CEO/President of GCT Global Container Terminals a business in the marine terminal […]
Sean Brazier shares an article that explains how their EDai portal provides analytical tools to help business leaders. Our Located by EDai portal is live! Our analytical tools help business leaders and economic developers make better, faster location decisions, especially when it comes to economic development incentives. To coincide with the launch of our portal, […]
Vitaly Baskin shares a professional development update in this post. I rarely post on social media, but at this time I want to share my major professional milestone – I have completed the Program for Leadership Development hashtag#PLD37 from Harvard Business School hashtag#HBS! This program was transformative to me, thanks to wonderful faculty, administration team […]
Zweli Oyena shares a few words on leadership. Can I say for many of us who have been led, we don’t actually care at all how leaders lead, we care how they live among us. It doesn’t matter that you tell me not to “even look at emails at 10pm”, if I wake up at […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Mark Maczat. Mark is a seasoned manager in strategy development and commercial due diligence projects with over 25 years track record in top management consulting and TMT industries. He has acquired outstanding analytical skills and experience in communicating with the top-management level and provides deep know-how in strategy development, new […]
Katherine Feeney shares a Forbes article where she was interviewed on how emerging technology is affecting women who work. As an independent adviser on private equity deals, Katherine Feeney has figured out how to liaise with clients from almost anywhere in the world. She has made presentations from locations that include a mountain hut in […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Monisha Nag with MN Advisory. Monisha has worked at the intersection of HR strategy, workforce planning, and analytics throughout her career and loves to help organizations transform and grow. Monisha has extensive consulting and in-house experience in working with executive leadership to build a robust talent strategies. She was in […]
Patrick Böert shares a short post on attending the WEF at Davos this year. Spending time at #WEF Davos can leave you feeling the vanity, at times. Time is precious. After all, not everyone is here for serendipity, inspiration, and all the good stuff: a spark from a new insight into a topic. A new […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Vitaly Baskin. Vitaly has spent 3 years with Boston Consulting Group in Chicago, Tel-Aviv and Moscow offices. He was supporting clients on multiple topics, including GTM Strategy, Organizational Design, Capability Development, Ecommerce Strategy, Supply Chain optimization, ESG strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to BCG, Vitaly had 10 years of experience […]
Lisa Carlin shares an article on how to ensure continued relevance in the future of work. “The biggest shame trigger at work is the fear of irrelevance.” Brené Brown [1] Brené says when we’re afraid, we tend to self-protect. This is an instinctive reaction when faced with an unpredictable future. We can respond by building […]