Business

  • One of the most powerful lessons I learned from my business mentor was this question: What’s in it for them? It’s the missing part of your company vision, strategy and goals … and the overlooked ingredient to unlocking passion … for your team. We know why we as leaders and founders care. We know what’s…

  • I posted this on LinkedIn and wanted to share it here as it’s part of my core passion in the work I do today …. Here’s how I got started building, running, leading customer communities, which I now do specifically at hosting.com as Chief Evangelist: It was 2009, barely two years into running iThemes &…

  • I’ve been a leader, I am a leader … and love thinking about and practicing leadership. Even if I’m a little anxious acknowledging that here. But my one-word definition of my brand of leadership is this: CARE Care about the humans, first, always and forever. It’s about people. AND that starts with myself …. Caring…

  • At hosting.com, we’re working on our first version of our core values, along with our vision and mission. And I’m honored and thankful to be contributing to this work for us. But I put a HUGE emphasis on our values and this work. They aren’t just another checkbox for me and I take them very seriously…

  • What is a Chief Evangelist in Business?

    It’s been over a year in my role as Chief Evangelist for A2 Hosting, now hosting.com. And I get asked often, “What is a chief evangelist?” Candidly, I don’t always know what to say either. So part of this post is for me and clarity. First, though, I want to say: this was not a position…