I now realize that when I first started Grants Works my company’s services were an extension of the work I performed when I was an employee. 

It wasn’t until about one year in business that I realized I did what many business strategists tell us to avoid--creating another job for myself instead of ...

Being an entrepreneur comes with its ups and downs. As a glass-half-full person, I try to learn what I can from my downs so I can become a better person, a better leader, and a better, more successful entrepreneur.

To celebrate my fourth year in business, I’m sharing some of the not-so-great decisi...

I remember a conversation I had with my former business coach when I shared the method I was using to generate leads for my business. Her suggestion on how to add rocket fuel to my lead generation strategy was simple and effective.

Today that simple suggestion is generating more leads than we can h...

After almost four years of running an independent consulting business, I’ve started to notice some quarterly trends in business activity. For example, the first quarter of a new year has shown a similar amount of interest in our consulting services with a predictable change in the second and third q...

An independent consulting business has one of the lowest start-up costs.

 As a new consultant, you basically need to a website, a logo, a scheduling application, a project management system, and maybe a customer relationship management system (CRM). The CRM is optional especially since there are mu...

Gone are the days when you saved seven different versions of your resume, one for each slight variation of the many job postings you monitored. You likely shudder at the thought of smiling through the multi-step recruitment whac-a-mole of the screening call, the hiring manager interview, the five-pe...

There is no shortage of advice about how to manage (and optimize) your time as an entrepreneur. I’ve given this some thought and decided to share the time management strategies I found helpful when I was a solo consultant and now that I have a small staff.

Some of these tips you may have seen befor...

Lisbon was the third and final destination on a three-country trip in Europe spurred by my daughter’s study abroad stint in Germany. 

As soon as I arrived at the Humberto Delgado Airport, there were noticeable differences from Barcelona.

I stayed at an Airbnb located in Belém, a district in Lisbon...

Barcelona is a beautiful city full of amazing sights.

It is also the capital city of Spain’s autonomous Catalonia region and is known for its art and architecture. 

I arrived in Barcelona in June 2022 after spending eight days with my children in Germany because my youngest was starting a study ab...