Gifted Professionals and Communicators Journal

February 19, 2022

Is It Liberating or Daunting to Discover You are Gifted Professional?

What Happens When You Discover Your Gifted Traits Well Into a Professional Path?   As a professional who works exclusively with gifted, talented, and creative professionals, I know something about the particular experiences, careers, and relationships of gifted professionals who also have communication and storytelling skills. For more than 30 years I […]
February 6, 2022

Do Other Gifted Professionals and Communicators Find You as Amazing as We Do?

Who is the Everyday Genius™ among us who looked past her own complexities and fears of “not fitting in” to see the greater need for real communication among gifted professionals and communicators? Meet Sia Papageorgiou.  Her red-hot career path to communication strategist for global companies and 2021-22 chair of the international certification […]
February 1, 2022

There are gifted professionals and storytellers walking among us.

What to do if you meet one or find out you are one of them.   If our network of professionals and creators of credentials have ever finished their weekly pile of reading of online information and books and felt there were still big gaps in what they needed to find, then […]
September 25, 2020

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) Can Cost You $500,000

Conventional Wisdom and Better Questions What would happen if you never went to another professional convention? What happens when we choose to eliminate professional conventions from our career paths and networking habits? Do we become boring, lose relevance, and become self-absorbed? Does our Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) push us into bad […]
August 27, 2020

10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Stepping Into Online Learning

Online learning experiences range from extensive, such as an entire career devoted to lifelong learning and professional development, to the beginner.  Wherever you land on the spectrum of online learning, you will benefit from insights and assumptions questioned by others, in your same shoes.   It was 1999, when professional development specialists […]
August 17, 2020

New Thinking on Networking Creates Success You Want

Because there is more said than done in the name of networking, let’s try some new thinking. Let’s come at this from communication and humanity mindset, instead of sales.  If you do one thing today that will change your life and career, form a different relationship with the whole of networking.     […]
August 10, 2020

You Get To Choose Your Customers

Marketing Built for Others Never Works for Certification Creators Have you noticed? The marketing advice, courses and templates created for product businesses and consumer service providers don’t work in credentials enterprises.  Many a creator of a certification, accreditation or standards program discover through money and time they will never get back, that […]
August 5, 2020

The Value of Your Credential is in Storytelling

When credentialing owners say their biggest problem is “people don’t understand the value of our certification” they send a signal they struggle to bring their story to life. They struggle to humanize their story. What is your highest intent or motivation—that thing beyond profit? What is the excitement and satisfaction your audience […]
July 29, 2020

Proven Ways to Achieve Calmness and Unstoppable Energy

Every day we have the option to see everything as a threat or opportunity.  We have this choice all of the time.  It’s more obvious now.   It’s all we can see and feel. Today the mail from Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of Stillness Is The Key and other books about culture, the […]