Trends from the Natural Products Expo West Tradeshow Trade shows are back. We were on location for the Natural Product Expo West tradeshow last week with about seventy thousand buyers, exhibitors, and industry professionals. The atmosphere was almost exuberant as attendees and exhibitors all celebrated being back together in person. The natural products industry has…
Connect with Your Peers to Inspire New Ideas Do you feel like you need to escape the isolation of Work-From-Home? Has COVID created the first opportunity you’ve had to work from home full-time? Has this been a way of life for you for years, but its felt different because travel had been suspended. Working from home has…
5 Strategies to Make Confident Decisions It can be hard to make a confident decision. Whether you have been asked to create a new strategy to grow a business, or find an innovative new product idea to disrupt a category, you may be suck trying to make a decision. You may be bogged down by…
What Is A Peer Group A peer group is made up of business leaders with similar roles in similar sized businesses. They meet on a regular basis to discuss challenges, opportunities, strategies, innovation, and other topics impacting their business. Since each member talks about their business, each group member gets feedback on their ideas and…
Top 12 Reasons to Join a Peer Group I’ve been facilitating peer groups for almost a decade, and I’ve realized that no matter the subject matter of the group, or the economic environment when it takes place, members leave the meeting feeling more inspired, motivated, and confident than when they came into the meeting. Peer…
Why Peer Groups? Being a leader at any level of an organization can be difficult. You are expected to know the answer, to have the way forward, to think of the innovative new idea. Depending on the size of your organization and your position, there may be relatively few people internally for you to collaborate…