Speaking, publishing, professional positioning
Leading with data requires judgment. This April, I’ll be speaking at the 2026 Women in Hospitality Leadership Conference at Wynn Las Vegas about what leading with data really means. In my experience, analytics are rarely the constraint. Interpretation is. Strong leaders don’t react to persuasive metrics at face value. They examine context, surface assumptions, understand…
A LinkedIn post by Carolene Meli this week imagined helping Celine Dumont, the impeccably ruthless executive from The Morning Show, reshape her public image. Carolene’s idea was elegant and powerful: help a leader tell her story through consistent writing and speaking that reveals her dimension and credibility. Done well, it benefits both the leader and…
Earlier this month I attended the Las Vegas Women’s Marketing Collective quarterly meetup, which featured a panel discussion titled “Hard Truths & Honest Wins: Navigating Advice That Stuck.” During the audience Q&A one of the speakers, LVCVA’s VP of PR and Communications Molly Castano, responded to a question from a UNLV student with a line…
Somewhere along the way, “networking” became a dirty word. It started to conjure images of working a room, collecting business cards, or adding people on LinkedIn you’d never actually met. At its best, though, networking has never been about card stacks or contact lists. It’s about relationships: think of it more like networking as a…
In his 2005 Stanford commencement address, Steve Jobs famously said: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” It’s true – and I believed it long before I ever heard that quote. My own nonlinear career path has unfolded more like a series of unexpected links than a straight…
Stepping Into a New Role After more than a decade at Allied Global Marketing, including the past three years as EVP of Strategy & Innovation, I’ve stepped away from full-time agency life to begin a high-impact new chapter through SW14 Group. My time at AGM was nothing short of extraordinary. I’m proud of the work…