Why The Michigan Municipal League Offers Sabbaticals The cool thing about doing a sabbatical is that it isn’t just for the person to get getting time off, but it’s for everyone around them who has to fill in. When you look taking a sabbatical and we decided to put one forward where people of a certain point in the organization get one month off –...
Read MoreTranscript: My journey is not a fairytale journey, I think by any means. And I think that’s where my kind of explains to you somewhere I guess I saw some things, and I wanted to do some things differently. It Started With Me But most of that started with me. Because at that point in time in my life I started saying so what’s in it for me what’s in...
Read MoreWe are taking our own advice and we are going to take a hiatus from producing weekly podcasts at PureReinvention. We have a big event coming up (Connect: Detroit on May 22 – there’s still time to register) and all of us here feel that we need to take a step back and assess how we can best build and present future content in more digestible and...
Read MoreWant to see reinvention in action? Look no further than the former Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association (now Check In Michigan). They have a new and innovative executive director and a board that is dedicated to serving the next generation in the Michigan hospitality industry. They hired the firm, Advance 360 to help guide them through the initial...
Read MoreThe interviews we conducted this month profiled success stories in reinvention readiness. Both Erin Patten and Dene Westbrook were ready to take the reinvention plunge. What did they have in common? We believe that they both had the four pillars of reinvention readiness: desire, curiosity, flexibility and confidence. Everything begins with a desire to...
Read MoreErin Patten is very accomplished with a Harvard business degree and a Kresge Fellow highlighting her impressive resume. She walked away from the standard career path to chase her dream of being an entrepreneur. In January 2018 she launched DaO Detroit. DaO stands for “defy all odds” and Erin personifies that sentiment. QUOTE IT “[My...
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