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Dispatches from the 90 Days 90 Ways Book Tour

By Alexia Vernon | May 9th, 2012

It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks. I went from hosting the 19th Annual CUNY/Creative Arts Team’s New York City Student Shakespeare Festival back to Las Vegas to “rest” (if rest means prepping for a book tour, gearing up for Moxie TeleCamp, and leading leadership and communication training for new nurses), and then was off [...]

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When Respect and Ethics Collide, What’s a Well Intentioned Leader to Do?

By Alexia Vernon | April 29th, 2010

In Five Minds for the Future, author Howard Gardner discusses the difference between respect and ethics. He states that respect is the process of understanding where other people are coming from and giving them the benefit of the doubt while ethics is fulfilling your roles (e.g., employee, parent, child, citizen, etc.) responsibly and from a [...]

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If You Open the Door, Be Ready for What Walks In

By Alexia Vernon | January 19th, 2010

As I mentioned in my last post, Millennials/Y’s love feedback. We frequently disengage from managers and from our work when we feel like what we are doing and who we are being is failing to leave an impact on others. One of the greatest lessons Gen-X and Baby Boomers can learn from the younger generation [...]

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Make 2010 a Year of Millennial Thinking

By Alexia Vernon | January 7th, 2010

After nearly each of my speeches or workshops this fall, at least one person (equal parts eager and irritated) would approach me and say, “I really want to shift from surviving to thriving” or “I want to recycle the box I’ve put around myself,” but “I’m just too old. I’m not like these Millennials you [...]

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I Have Found My Nutritious Community

By Alexia Vernon | November 5th, 2009

Brilliant leadership coach and arts consultant, Steve Barberio, often talks about the importance of building yourself a tribe of people who share your values, vision, and professional and personal interests and enthusiasms. He calls them your nutritious community, because you feed one another on a variety of levels. (Keith Ferrazzi has done perhaps the best [...]

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You Know You Need a Virtual Intern When…

By Alexia Vernon | October 30th, 2009

Virtual interning can be a great, inexpensive way for young people (as well as non-traditional students/career transitioners) who may not be in metropolitan cities to gain experience with companies. It also is an effective way for companies and solopreneurs to minimize the expenses of workspace and hands on supervision. Virtual internships can be paid or [...]

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Why Gen-Y (Millennials) Should Learn About Solar

By Alexia Vernon | September 29th, 2009

Whether it’s closer to 400,000 or 1 million solar jobs that are created in 2010, as has been forecasted, numbers alone do not tell the story of why college students and recent grads want to bone up on their solar know-how. Although I’m confidant that the U.S. is still very much transitioning into a green [...]

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"Entrepreneurship is no longer a career field; it’s a way of being": An Interview with Sarah Katyal, President of Impact Entrepreneurship Group

By Alexia Vernon | September 14th, 2009

If it were not for youth entrepreneurship initiatives, I would never have had the means or strategy to launch a nonprofit girls’ leadership institute as a college sophomore. By winning the Independent Means National Youth Business Plan Competition, I connected with a community of business leaders who showed me that making a big difference and [...]

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No Regrets. But If I Had A Do-Over I Wish I’d Known…

By Alexia Vernon | August 26th, 2009

It’s been nearly a month since my last blog post, meaning I’ve utterly violated my principle of posting at least once per week. However, I can’t imagine having had a better time NOT blogging. Over the last third of the summer I’ve had the opportunity to meet some amazing emerging and evolving leaders as I’ve [...]

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