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I am incredibly passionate about building thriving cultures and believe that community is where organizational culture comes to life. There are four phases of culture development that I recommend to leaders: curiosity, collaboration, clarity and connection. Let me walk you through how to use these four Cs to identify issues and intentionally build a thriving workplace culture. CURIOSITY When I first stepped into my position as CEO of SUCCESS, I made it my goal to personally meet with every single person on the team. I conducted a listening tour spanning several weeks. Through back-to-back calls and Zooms, I uncovered and learned from each person’s perspectives, passions and personal stories. This helped me understand key value drivers and points of joy or discontent. I tuned in to how people feel about their purpose,…

Hello, everyone! It gives me great pleasure to join SUCCESS Enterprises as the new editor-in-chief. Having worked in media, publishing and the personal development space in both Canada and the U.S., I believe every new editorial role is an opportunity to inspire and inform a captivating audience in a creative way. As a result, I look forward to helping bring a fresh perspective to all of our amazing SUCCESS channels. We plan to innovate our content offerings for dedicated leaders and entrepreneurs who seek purpose and growth in their personal and professional lives. On that note, I’d like to give a shout-out to the entire media team. This talented group of individuals has embraced my SUCCESS “newness” from the get-go—and I can’t wait to see what transpires over the coming months with…

103 Years Later Aug. 26, 1920, saw the official ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in the U.S. While this was a hard-fought triumph for women’s suffrage, it must be noted that many women remained disenfranchised, including Black women, Asian American women, Latina women, and Native American women on reservations and women in U.S. territories. Aug. 26 has since been memorialized over the past century under many names. It has been celebrated as Suffrage Day, Women’s Emancipation Day and others. A bill, championed by multiple congresswomen and the second-wave feminist movement, passed in 1973 finally designating Aug. 26 as Women’s Equality Day—which is how we still know it 50 years on. Aug. 26 is Women’s Equality Day. Picketers, led by Hazel Hunkins Hallinan, leaving headquarters for daily White…

When Camille Burns joined the Women Presidents Organization in 2000, she was fresh out of NYU and energized about her new role as program assistant. Now, 23 years later, she’s still passionate about the WPO—and hard at work making the nonprofit a valuable resource for women presidents, executives, leaders and entrepreneurs. Comprising 2,000-plus members and more than 137 chapters that meet monthly across eight countries, it provides a professional environment for women to seek business advice and feedback from a village of noncompetitive peers. “When you look at women-owned businesses, only 4% of them generate over a million dollars,” Burns says. “When I started at WPO, that number was 2%. So we’ve seen a lot of progress with women taking companies public and women in the C-suite running Fortune 500 companies—but…

There are lots of things you can do if you want to live a long and healthy life. Eat healthy. Exercise regularly. Avoid cigarettes and drinking heavily. And? Make sure you spend time with your friends and loved ones. According to the Harvard Study of Adult Development—the longest-running study there is on human happiness—having strong relationships makes you both happier and healthier. The Harvard Study of Adult Development began in 1938. Back then, it was actually two separate studies of human development. One started at Student Health Services, with 268 Harvard sophomores—roughly 19 years old, all men—who were selected for observation of “normal” young adult development and the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. “It was basically a study of thriving—of what goes right in development,” explains Dr. Robert Waldinger, the study’s…

1. Check in with a casual “hello.” One trick Waldinger uses when giving talks is to ask his audience to think of people they haven’t seen in a while, or people they miss, and send them a “just thinking of you” text or email. Then, during the Q&A portion of his talk, he’ll ask if anyone has heard back. Most people have, and the recipients of their messages are often delighted; it leads to dinner plans and reconnections. “This doesn’t have to be some Herculean effort,” Waldinger says. 2. Keep with it! “In The Good Life, we have this concept called social fitness, and we deliberately coined that phrase because it seemed like what we were trying to talk about was so analogous to physical fitness,” Waldinger says. If you can send one…