I’m excited about delivering the keynote to 700 women at the Grand Rapids Business Journal’s Top Women in Business Awards luncheon in a few weeks. If you attend that event, please come up and introduce yourself to me.

Here are some key considerations when creating a great presentation.

Five Steps to Create a Great Presentation

Life would be great if we could get along with every person we see on a on a regular basis, but that’s often not the case. So, what do you do when you have to interface daily with someone who doesn’t see eye-to-eye with you?

If you have to deal with a difficult person on a regular basis, here are five questions to mull over.

Five Questions to Ask Yourself about a Difficult Person

As a business owner, you must come across with confidence when you speak. To be persuasive, you must appear to be sure about what you say, rather than tentative.

To speak more powerfully, check whether you use any of the following five words or phrases, and if you do, work to eliminate them from your conversation.

Five Words to Eliminate to Increase Your Power

We’ve all tried the worn out resolutions of losing 20 pounds, watching less TV, hitting the gym every day. This year, try something different.

Here are five unique New Year’s Resolutions. Go for one!

Five Unique New Year’s Resolutions

The first step in improving your relationship with an employee, customer, family member or friend is to truly connect with that person. Regardless of the relationship you’ve had with that individual in the past, things can always improve.

Here are five approaches to creating and maintaining enduring connections. 

Five Ways to Enhance Relationships over the Holidays 

I’ve dedicated the past two years to launching a unique program called The Woman’s Advantage® Forum. Our Forum provides women with smaller businesses the face-to-face structured learning they need to reach $1MM in annual revenue.

Since our initial launch, I’ve learned some important lessons that I thought you’d like to hear about.

Five Keys to Launching a New Offering

It takes serious confidence to lead a business. And some days you may be more confident than others. But not to worry. You can learn to be confident just as you can learn any other skill.

Here are 5 ways to increase your confidence in business.

5 Ways to Gain Confidence in Business

When people feel that you are really listening to them, they will approach you more, trust you more and confide in you more. So, whether it’s a partner, an employee, a client or a prospect, it really pays to listen.

Here are 5 approaches you can use to improve your listening skills.

5 Ways to Really “Hear” Others

There is a direct correlation between being easy to do business with and rising revenue. If you want to grow your business, you must be accessible to customers in a way that is convenient for them. Just how do you do that?

Here are five ways you can make it easier for your customers to do business with you?

5 Ways to Increase Revenue by Being Accessible

Do you know that almost 70% of clients who stop doing business with an organization do so because of what they call “indifference”? When you consider the cost of acquiring a new client, you understand the true value of retaining those that you have.

Here are five approaches to keep your clients coming back.

5 Ways to Keep Clients Coming Back