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Redefining Corporate Culture: A Vision for Supporting Women Through Infertility
Discover actionable strategies to create a workplace culture that truly supports women navigating infertility. From flexible policies to leadership training, this post outlines a vision for transforming corporate environments.
AI Disruption: The Quiet Revolution Reshaping Business Strategy
While political headlines dominate, a quieter revolution is underway. AI agents are transforming industries, reshaping business strategies, and demanding adaptable leadership. Explore how this shift impacts organizations and what leaders must do to stay ahead.
Leading Through Change: Change fatigue is real—here's how to lead through it
Change fatigue can derail organizational progress, but intentional leadership can prevent burnout and disengagement. Explore five practical steps to help your team navigate continuous transformation.
A Decade of Impact: 10 Things We Learned From Starting Our Own Consulting Firm
10 key lessons from our decade-long journey of building a social impact consulting firm that helps businesses navigate change and foster resilience.
February 2025 Trends
February 2025 brought key insights for business leaders: consumer values driving spending, fertility benefits reshaping HR strategies, and global AI governance challenges. Dive into the trends shaping the year ahead.
Crisis Communications in 2025: Expect the Unexpected
Leadership is the cornerstone of organizational success. Explore proven strategies to develop resilient leaders, foster team collaboration, and achieve sustainable growth through expert coaching and training.
Getting your team started with A.I.
AI is already transforming workplaces across industries. Learn how leaders can guide their teams through strategic, ethical, and effective adoption of artificial intelligence tools.
Employee Choice, Autonomy, and Distributed Ownership: Empowering Teams for Success
Discover how distributed ownership empowers employees, enhances engagement, and drives organizational success through shared decision-making.
Leading in 2025: When the political becomes personal
Regardless of how you voted, it would be naive to not understand and plan for the kind of stress this new political environment is bringing to your workforce. As the new administration begins implementing sweeping changes to federal policy and regulation, American workers—especially those from marginalized communities—are bracing for impact.
New Research: People Are Done Waiting for Things to Change
For 25 years, the Edelman Trust Barometer has given us an annual temperature check on how much faith people have in institutions. This year’s results are ice cold.
Davos 2025: Finding Resilience Through Collaboration
Every January, the world’s most powerful leaders and business elites gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos to talk about the future. This year’s theme was “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age,” meant to be a vision of global challenges—climate change, AI safety, economic inequality—solved through cooperation. These kinds of global issues are too big for any one nation or one company to solve alone. The future is complex, and it demands collective action.
Redefining Corporate Culture: Supporting Women through Infertility
When I cofounded my company, I never imagined that the most profound leadership lessons would emerge not from boardroom strategies or client victories, but from the raw moments of navigating fertility treatments while building a business from scratch. This parallel journey—one of professional creation and personal loss—has illuminated a critical truth for me about how workplace culture can serve as a support system for their people.
Pocket Change: Trump, “Common Sense,” and “The Intelligent Age”
While Americans on Monday were watching a parade of billionaires and debating about what constitutes a Nazi salute during the re-inauguration of President Donald Trump, the world’s elite were gathering in Davos under the banner of “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.”
Looking Ahead: 2025 Trend Predictions
Where we go from here on A.I., sustainability, employee engagement, and more. As we head into 2025, we asked subject matter experts within the 18 Coffees community for their perspectives.
Pocket Change: 2025 will be a year that asks questions
The impacts of a second Trump administration are far from certain, but we do have some directional indicators based on his campaign promises.
The Next Media Frontier: Navigating the Uncertain Trump 2.0 Landscape
In the aftermath of November’s election, many leaders have been interpreting what the future of journalism may look like over the next four years. 18 Coffees’ Managing Partner Caleb Gardner recently connected with Dr. Danielle Tomson to explore the rise of content creators and influencer power in shaping behavior and brand perception, how data can help or hinder our understanding of community behavior, and the impact the shifting media landscape might have on communications going forward.
Pocket Change: The world holds its breath over Trump 2.0
The impacts of a second Trump administration are far from certain, but we do have some directional indicators based on his campaign promises.
Preparing your workplace for election chaos—no matter the outcome
Tomorrow the United States finishes the most chaotic presidential election of our lifetimes. It’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day news cycle, but taking a step back, consider the unprecedented nature of this cycle…