Making a Dream Team

How to become a leader who wins hearts to maximize performance

These three steps can improve your leadership capabilities and help create the dream team that you have always wanted.

Maturity Loves Company

Trends point to a growing interest in mergers and acquisitions

The recent spate of mergers and acquisitions in the Capital Region tells a story beyond the pandemic, speaking to growing interest in the area and a red-hot financial craze that catapults private companies into public markets.

Building a Better Board

How to take advantage of a new law to create better oversight and decisions

Here’s how experts say companies can strengthen corporate governance.

A Future by Design

The inequities women still face are exacerbated by the pandemic, but there is opportunity for change

While the road to economic recovery, gender pay parity and equitable female representation may be long, there are things that employers and employees can do now to ensure a better future.

Breaking Ground

Women in the Capital Region are founding biotech companies with a global reach — but venture capital remains elusive

Women founders in the Capital Region are developing groundbreaking technology in biotech and ag-tech, emerging industries where territory is still uncharted.

Three Keys to Leading

Learning how to trust, be vulnerable and listen well can make you a better leader

Some people are natural-born leaders, some learn leadership skills and others fall into it.

Retail Survival

The co-owner of six local La-Z-Boy Home Furnishing & Decor showrooms talks pandemic strategy

The pandemic recession has shaped businesses in big and small ways, and its impacts have reached employers, employees, suppliers and customers.

Technology on Your Side

For small businesses, free or low-cost tools can provide an advantage

Here are seven things small businesses can do right now to help with their technology challenges.

Where’s the Party?

Companies have to get more creative to replace familiar holiday events of yore

Employers have been scaling back their annual holiday parties for years. What will they look like in 2020?

Helping Businesses and Individuals Thrive

J. Smith & Co.

Founded in 2013, J. Smith & Co. offers small businesses and nonprofits strategic HR consulting services, as well as professional coaching for executive leaders and leadership teams.