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September 2025 Member Spotlight – Justin Jones-Fosu, Founder/CEO, Work. Meaningful. -This is part 1 of 2 conversations with Shannon Minifie, Box of Crayons Justin Jones-Fosu is the founder and CEO of Work. Meaningful. where he speaks 50-60 times per year to companies,...

Award-Winning Training Company, PowerSpeaking, Inc., Sees Next-Gen Ownership Transfer to CEO and EVP  Redwood City, CA, July 28, 2025 - PowerSpeaking, Inc., a Silicon Valley based, global presentation- and communications-skills development company, announced that its...

-A conversation with Shannon Minifie, Box of Crayons I got to meet with the fabulous Maggie Sass, EVP of Content, Research, and Professional Services at TalentSmartEQ, to talk about building on a strong Founder-led foundation, and why EQ is something AI can’t disrupt....

-A conversation with Shannon Minifie, Box of Crayons Becky Haight’s the CFO at HRCI®, the premier HR credentialing and learning community for the human resource profession. Because I don’t often get to chat with people in the finance seat, I thought it might be...

Shanon Olsen, VP Business Development, Henley Leadership Group -A conversation with Shannon Minifie, Box of Crayons Shanon Olsen of Henley Leadership Group talks customization, growth and expansion, and getting clearer about who they best serve. SM: Can you share a...

An interview with David Kolbe, CEO of Kolbe Corp -A member conversation with Shannon Minifie, Box of Crayons David Kolbe on conative strengths (nope! That’s not a typo!), and the power of the Kolbe Index to improve individual and team performance. SM: David! Can you...

An Interview with Krista Skidmore, CEO and Founder of FlashPoint Leadership -A member conversation with Shannon Minifie This fall, I had the chance to catch up with Krista Skidmore, who I remember meeting when I was a newbie at the ISA-ALP back in 2017.  Krista’s the...

November 2024 Member Spotlight Nickolo Villanueva, Chief Information Officer, Crisis Prevention Institute   -A member conversation with Shannon Minifie, Box of Crayons  Shannon: Nickolo, it seems that CIOs are sort of in the hot seat for thinking about how GenAI can...

October 2024 Member Spotlight – Mary McGlynn, Owner and President, and Carrie Beckstrom, Chief Executive Officer, PowerSpeaking, Inc. -A member conversation with Shannon Minifie, Box of Crayons This past March at the ABR, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down...

September 2024 Member Spotlight – Cara Paulan Cara Paulan, Chief Operating Officer, Global Public Speaking -A member conversation with Shannon Minifie, Box of Crayons In August, I met with Cara Paulan, Chief Operating Officer at Global Public Speaking. Cara’s...