Discover the transformative potential of establishing a sounding board within your organization. Learn how to assemble a diverse group of employees to provide constructive feedback and valuable insights on change initiatives, restructuring, and post-M&A integration.

My favorite metaphor is about change management as a bus journey (by leadership and workplace communication expert Merge Gupta-Sunderji). It reflects most of my transformation experience, having led change projects as diverse as cost-cutting, creating a company’s purpose, or accompanying a voluntary organizational redesign effort.

“How do you embed and sustain change?”. - is the title of a LinkedIn collaborative article I helped flesh out. So what makes a change project stick? In my view, applying KPIs, assessing the project stakeholders (+ their agendas) and setting up change roles.

Dive into the world of corporate intelligence by tapping into the valuable insights provided during quarterly earning calls of publicly listed fashion companies. Explore financial performance, strategic visions, and leadership dynamics with expert analysis from industry insiders.

I recommend conducting informational interviews at every stage of one’s career. Let me rephrase: “Talk to people whose job you find interesting”. One may not want to work in that role right away, but mapping a job’s requirements in terms of skill set and professional stage is helpful.

Creativity has many facets, including mini-c and little-c creativity - ingredients for learning and transformative experiences. At times, a boring corporate setting can make you feel your creativity is dormant. But you can revitalize it!

Culture is fluffy. It is difficult to discern. It is like pink cotton candy. If you don’t know how to manage it, it will stick to you in the most uncomfortable way. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be taken seriously. This article illustrates Edgar H. Schein’s model of organizational culture.

“Know thyself” is attributed to various Greek philosophers and poets, including to Socrates, the Phemonoe, or Chilon and Thales. Role analysis helps you accelerate this process. You ask yourself which roles you held at age 6, 16, 26, 36 and so on to identify patterns.

A Forbes profile isn’t that complex. By writing a feature about your future professional self, you use your imagination skills to make a career change a reality.

By asking a potential customer about their pain points and whether he or she would pay money for your solution / product, you get *real* market feedback. If, after a number of customer development interviews, none of your interviewees respond they’d renumerate you, you may have to change course.

In early 2020, I started a fashion brand. I called it “Club Lucienne” in homage to my late grandmother, Lucienne Léonie Heintz. My vision consisted of bringing slow fashion back and combining French chic and Vietnamese craftsmanship. This article focuses on the related costs.

Coach and author Jen Sincero is right: “You have to get good at sales”. I concluded to make this process as enjoyable as possible and use one of my strenghts — networking. It paves the way for creating connections with potential clients before you actually “have to” sell to them. It creates a degree of sympathy and mutuality that makes it easier for them to react positively to your sales pitch.

As part of their research on the psychological reasons of employees’ resistance to change, Harvard professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey define “competing commitments” as psychological forces undermining an individual’s efforts to achieve an objective.

Capitol Hill is a place like no other. You have to befriend people from the other side of the aisle (translate this: who serve the OTHER political party). You constantly attend brown bag luncheons, conferences, events at think tanks.

Ranging from Southeast Asian online marketplaces such as Caroussel to the US-based Poshmark, preloved fashion is getting more popular. Explore a groundbreaking concept in sustainable fashion consumption with The Fashion Pulpit, Singapore's premier clothing swapping platform. Discover how this innovative venture is reshaping the fashion landscape, promoting circularity, and empowering consumers to make eco-conscious choices.

Brussels can be a bit of black box. Even to Europeans. You may have heard about the EU’s push to reduce the environmental impact of the (fast) fashion industry. But do you know what this entails in detail and how both both consumers and textile manufacturers will be affected? The following article sheds lights on the scope and timelines.

Luxury fashion and the “competing commitments” concept from business school professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey may have no overlap. But when it comes to transparency in fashion supply chains and why luxury fashion employees may undermine this, there is a lot to gain from understanding this approach.

When it comes to prototyping, speed and simplicity are key. There are cost-effective tools to do so - and I chose one, a click dummy. By showing the click dummy of a marketplace to customers, I gained valuable feedback.

My new marketing performance consultant and I had a conversation last week. We both agreed: We have more than one professional identity. Yet, we don’t know how to consolidate these online. How to best achieve this?