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Happy Birthday to #MelindaFrenchGates! Lessons we can all learn from her lead: 👁Focus: find a mission you care about and do all that you can to positively impact it every day. 💪Autonomy: take control of your time, attention, and decisions so that you can focus! 🤝Earned Trust: build a network of people from all walks of life that have one thing in common--reliability. They earn your trust in how they live their lives every day. 🙌Empower Women: work with intention to meaningfully change the systems and norms that hold women back. Lift them up publicly with big opportunities and resources. Just imagine what would be possible if more leaders led like Melinda! 🌏 #rolemodel #womenwholead #momentoflift #regenerative #innovation #leadership #goals Pivotal Ventures Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Microsoft

Today, I celebrate my 27th birthday 🥳 (Longer and a bit cheesy post alert) Over the past year, I: - Started creating content on LinkedIn - Grew my following from 440 to 2,900+ - Bought our very own home with my partner - Started running LinkedIn & copywriting workshops - Made some new friends & reignited old friendships - Attended amazing Coldplay & Ed Sheeran concerts - Played a lot of padel and disc golf, and learned salsa - Fulfilled my dream of seeing LeBron James play irl - Invested thousands of $$$ into self-development - Became a copywriting teacher at a college - Traveled to the UK, Sweden, and Cyprus But alongside the wins, I also: - Faced failures - Burnt out hard - Had sleepless nights - Gained some extra weight - Had difficult conversations - Felt constantly overwhelmed - Dealt with tons of doubt and fear - Missed out on some business opportunities It's been quite a rollercoaster, but every experience, whether good or not so good, has made me wiser, stronger, and better. And I'm grateful for all of it! (Shoutout to my support system—aka my partner, family, and friends—whose unwavering support has helped me keep my sanity :D) Anyway... what's a proper LinkedIn post without a takeaway message, right? So, to celebrate my 27th birthday, here's a 27-word message/pep talk for you and myself: Bet on yourself. Take the leap of faith. Give your best. Say "no" to what doesn't 100% align with you. Keep going, even without seeing immediate results. With love, Kristo (Back to enjoying my birthday here in Cyprus 😎✌️)

I am honored to have one of my articles, "12 Tips to Find Time for Coaching" included as one of the Top 10 Blog Posts of all time on the Contact Center Pipeline blog! Check out all of the Top 10 articles in the link below! #contactcenters #CX #EX #coaching

Innovative thinking leads to groundbreaking solutions. Sharing insights and knowledge can inspire growth and change. Let's drive progress together through thought leadership. #ThoughtLeadership #KnowledgeSharing

Whatever sector we're in, it's often said that we neglect the very thing we help others with, either in ourselves or in our business. So too for us at Heartward. We may have spent most of our adult lives exploring for our clients how to communicate to greatest effect, or how to ensure external representations match the original intent, but as small business people, our own business can get left behind. Too much time working in the business, rather than on it. To celebrate our 5th birthday and our 6th year of operation, we are currently refreshing the way we show ourselves to the outside world. Its time. After navigating COVID only 14 months after we started, it's time. After having our heads down to grow our business, it's time. After evolving and finessing what we do, it's time. Time to grow up a little. To value our own organisation as much as we value the wonderful work of the organisations we work with. Who better to partner with us on this again, than the talented Zoë Scott :) And it starts with a refreshed colour palette. We've dropped one colour and added two. Given what’s happening in the world, granted this may seem surface, flippant even. But if you are going to run a business, it’s hard work, but it can be fun too. Goodness knows we all need some fun. Do you like it?

Imagine using the same search for records management. That's most "In-Place" products. They use the native search that's on your Outlook, Teams etc. I call them piggy-backers. If you hear connectors or APIs in their pitch, you are getting a 🐷-backer. Pro Tip: Go to teams and try running a search. See how much of a horror story that is.

Super successful #CES trip for Polymath Robotics: Key wins: 1) Hundreds of successful live robotics demos. Basically, everyone who walked up to our booth could issue waypoint commands to robots in 2-3 countries 2) A whole load of big, excited current and prospective customers. 3) A sheaf of quotes saying things like "this is the most impressive thing I've seen at CES," or "how do you have a better demo on [specific OEM]'s equipment than they do?" 4) Getting to spend a bunch of the show with our partners at dolaGon, and showing off robots with BIA5, HARD-LINE, and Sygnal Technologies 5) Livestreaming an autonomous 4'x5' defense + mining vehicle on a 100' screen Key ways robots were jerks: 1) It snowed in Idaho and Ontario. Whiteouts made some demos harder to appreciate. 2) -40 wind chill in Idaho + overcast made it hard for our friends at Sygnal to debug Starlink connectivity 3) It rained in Queensland, Australia; which also made satellite-enabled connectivity less than perfect. Kindof cool when the hard things about robots are the weather and not software (or our amazing partners' hardware!)

We have all encountered this scenario previously. Offering pragmatic resolutions to clients can aid sales teams in elevating customer contentment and enhancing lead conversion rates. In the grand scheme of things, this approach plays a pivotal role in circumventing delivery delays and guaranteeing a seamless project lifecycle. #sales #projectmanagement #projectcoordination #salescoordination

Had the pleasure of attending Ohio Society of Association Professionals Annual Conference in Cinncinati and really enjoyed the networking, sessions and conversations. Thank you Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for making this possible. My key takeaways include: - find ways to make your team feel valued at work and incorporate play as a primary research tool - Geoff McLachlan - understanding the challenges of hybrid and remote work models allows the whole team to discover ways to problem solve, and cultivate a healthy work environment by encouraging ways to build psychological safety and resilience. - don’t be afraid to question the status quo - a willingness to tell your story doesn’t have to be selfish or narcissistic and you can have a great and powerful impact by relating to others through story telling - meeting new people is fun, don’t forget that! #professionaldevelopment #remote #work #attendee #osap