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Lessons from a Billion-Dollar Brand Founder

“You’ll never believe it,” said the excited voice on the other end of the line. “I just got off the phone with Brian Smith. He agreed to be our closing speaker at Small Business Festival.”

Finding the exact right person to close our festival is always difficult. We look for a real-world business success story with an excellent track record in presenting from the stage. It’s always hard, because many founders don’t do public speaking…or at least, not very well. And most professional speakers d...

How to Network Effectively – or Skip it Altogether

Discover the bolt of insight that led Dorie Clark to realize she could say goodbye to networking forever and still accomplish all her goals.

Small Business Growth, On Your Own Terms

From a convoluted career path with lots of doors closing in her face, to becoming a wildly successful business owner and the author of the Inc. #1 business book of 2015, Dorie Clark is a testament to the amazing things introverts can achieve when we identify and harness our inherent strengths.

For introverts who e...

What Makes Introverts Thrive in the Workplace?

Ed Frauenheim, Director of Research and Content at Great Place to Work®, shares the simple steps managers and leaders can take right now, to not only increase the happiness and productivity of introverted employees, but triple the company’s revenue in the process.

Creating a Great Place to Work for All Employees, Introverts Included

You may be familiar with the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for list, which pulls data from thousands of companies (and hundreds of thousands of employees) to...

Podcasting Strategies for Introverts

If you’ve heard of the Eventual Millionaire podcast, you know that the host, Jaime Masters, is a big deal. Recently ranked by Entrepreneur and INC as one of the top podcasts in the world for entrepreneurs, the Eventual Millionaire demonstrates that Jaime is by far one of the best interviewers I have ever seen.

When she interviewed me for the first time on her show, I was struck by how natural she was, how easily she was able to ask the questions that dig deep and get to the heart of the matte...