There I sat, in a state-of-the-art conference room in the engineering department, listening to one scientific team after the next pitch a variety of promising biomedical breakthroughs to a small granting committee at a private California university. As a writer and a delivery coach,  I’d been invited to give feedback to this group of PhD scientists on how to improve their startup stories. While I’d coached hundreds of entrepreneurs on the fine art of crafting and presenting a

One Thanksgiving a few years back, we were in New York on a family vacation when this message board caught my eye...

Recently, I had the good fortune of reading a thought-provoking thought from the Dalai Lama. What I love about this piece is how each idea