“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln To do something well, you need to prepare. And part of preparing to have an incredible year is to reflect on the last year, capture highlights, identify learnings…

The practice of gaining buy-in is one that will serve you in every facet of your career. Whether you’re trying to gain momentum for a new idea, a process, budget approval, or get buy-in to have more people understand what you do and why it matters, you need these skills…

HubSpot Academy recently turned 10 years old. To celebrate this milestone, here are ANOTHER 10 lessons I learned from starting, scaling, and marketing HubSpot Academy. (FYI: I’ve shared my previous 10 lessons in a blog post linked here. ) 11. Internal Communication To build something transformational outside of the organization, you have to first build something transformational inside the organization.

It’s been 10 years since Mark Kilens, Chris LoDolce, and I started the HubSpot Academy team. In honor of this significant milestone, I’m sharing 10 lessons I learned from creating, scaling, and growing the team. 1. Team Purpose We created our Team Purpose very early on. Our team purpose was: “To educate and…

A couple of years ago, my dad's good friend and neighbor was diagnosed with an aggressive and rare form of cancer. The news was devastating and hard to accept for everyone. What made it worse though, was that leading up to his cancer diagnosis, his doctors told him it was…

Are you ready to ring in 2022? I’m not. I usually feel this way when I haven’t taken the time to process my year. And it’s true; I haven’t taken the time to reflect on where I succeeded, failed, what I learned, loved, hated, etc… yet. However, it’s a worthy…

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” — Albert Einstein Part of understanding the problem is making sure you’re asking the right questions. Unfortunately, we’re not taught in school how to ask ourselves better…

How fast do these things biodegrade if left in the environment? Vegetables? 5 days — 1 month Paper? 2–5 months Orange peels? 6 months Tin cans? 50–100 years Styrofoam cups? 500 years to forever Plastic bags? 500 years to forever 500 years to forever 500 years to forever 500 years…

Have you ever had one of those days where everything seemed to be going wrong? You spill your expensive coffee, get cut off in traffic, and the day just got worse from there. Or maybe you experience feelings of frustration, anxiousness, overwhelm, self-doubt, regret, shame, and guilt on a more-than-you’d-like…