June 18, 2025

Don’t wait. If it calls to you, do it now. Seize the day!

Somewhere around the third chapter of your life, the story of you needs a rewrite. I didn’t see this until I turned 50. This seemed overwhelming and scary, so I called for backup. Who would understand this, and who has experience with life journey rewrites? I surrounded myself with a trusted inner […]
March 8, 2025

Kerrie Hawkins: The Architect of Connection in a Fractured World 

By Sia Papageorgiou, Co-Founder, Gifted Professionals & Communicators Some people follow career paths. Others forge them—taking the scenic route, collecting knowledge, questioning systems, and building bridges where none exist. Kerrie Hawkins is the latter—an architect of connection. Gifted professionals don’t fit neatly into career boxes. They see patterns before others do, chase […]
June 24, 2024

Is Your Genius Hidden or Not Yet Communicated?

It’s high time to turn a simple story into a powerful narrative It seems like yesterday we were writing and chatting about the hidden genius in you. Polina Pompliano’s book Hidden Genius: The Secret Ways of Thinking that Power the World’s Most Successful People celebrated its first anniversary this week. In our […]
February 22, 2024

It Started With Wolves

Curiosity, exploration, and relentless pursuit of excellence In the bustling world of communication, where noise often reigns supreme, there exists a quiet force, a subtle gifted professional and communicator who weaves intricate webs of understanding amid the chaos. Meet Terri Ellman, whose journey through the realms of curiosity, exploration, and relentless pursuit […]
March 14, 2022

Time is an Odyssey and a Blink for Gifted Professionals. Meet Carrie M. Jones.

Visionary is a word we often use to describe what we experience when working with a gifted professional.  What’s really happening is that the complex, multilayered, sensitive mind of the gifted sees thousands of diverse dots so very clear.  This is why communication strengths are so important so that the gifted professional […]
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 […]
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 […]