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Certify, Staff, and Grow!

That’s the phrase that I close with in my email signature block and that I autograph books with at book signings.   It encapsulates everything I do as a professional; help military veterans achieve meaningful, lucrative post-military service careers.   And although, as a military

This is Doug; Doug the tug!

Doug, a tug, and its crew and cargo sailed past the Fish Lips restaurant in Cape Canaveral, Florida yesterday, right before I went on stage to present the Florida Association of Veteran-Owned Businesses, Inc. (FAVOB)’s State of the Mission Keynote about how local Florida businesses

The Context:Leadership Grid

My Context:Leadership Grid. It’s the grid you see depicted as this post’s image, and it’s one of the fundamental concepts I discuss when I address professional and industry audiences on the topic of Using First Principles Thinking to Solve Our Hiring Heroes Problem in the

Veteran Reintegration is a Matter of Mattering

TL;DR: https://youtu.be/h5UJaGQJkiI Global consulting firm McKinsey and Company produces many studies of workforces.  One of them is conducted every couple of years, and it focuses on what matters to employees and how that makes their work meaningful.  We explore the role meaningful work can have