An Interview with Karen Mangia — Mission: The mission or focus of any nonprofit organization must be crystal clear. Organizations should be mindful not to take on too much, because it’s impossible to solve everything. For Boys Hope Girls Hope, we are hyper focused on helping young people long-term to change the trajectory of their lives. …

An Interview with Karen Mangia — Re- and up-skilling: Even with a recession looming, the talent wars have made it so that no one can take their employees for granted, so organizations are making greater and smarter investments to develop and train their existing workforce to meet their needs instead of spending months looking for the…

An Interview with Karen Mangia — Overlapping Skills: Employers are seeking people who can wear many hats and take on various tasks should they need to shift responsibilities within the company. When it comes to designing the future of work, one size fits none. Discovering success isn’t about a hybrid model or offering remote work options…

An Interview with Karen Mangia — Diversity, Equity and Inclusive: People. Purchase. Philanthropy. Business diversity needs to go across all these areas in spending, with accountability from the top down and down top. When it comes to designing the future of work, one size fits none. Discovering success isn’t about a hybrid model or offering remote…

An Interview with Karen Mangia — Remote culture is something that’s emerging. It hasn’t taken off yet but you’re going to hear that a lot more people, for example, living in places like Bali and working for hot tech companies. When it comes to designing the future of work, one size fits none. Discovering success isn’t…

An Interview with Karen Mangia — Flexibility: At Xplor Technologies we’ve spoken to our Xplorers worldwide to understand preferences for returning to the office, and then created flexible working policies to suit. By listening, encouraging, and engaging, our workforce has shifted to 2–3 days a week in the office, or in some cases fully remote. The…

An Interview with Karen Mangia — Companies offering to support their employees in ways that go beyond the standard benefits. The pandemic pause brought us to a moment of collective reckoning about what it means to live well and to work well. As a result, employees are sending employers an urgent signal that they are no…

An Interview with Karen Mangia — The biggest issue from our small business clients about remote work is — How do I know if they are actually working? How do I track their productivity, are they maintaining our standards, what are they doing? When it comes to designing the future of work, one size fits none…

An Interview With Karen Mangia — Define what it means to be successful for YOU. Pursue it, and don’t permit external influences to minimize or dilute your mission. Have you ever noticed how often we equate success with more? Whether that’s more products, more profits, more activities or more accomplishments, we buy into the belief that…