J.D. Massey Associates™

Last week, I blogged about the art of influencing people. In part one of this three-part series, I discussed the importance of first understanding where peop...

You know how difficult it is to get a dog into the vet's office in that moment when he realizes that he's about to enter the vet's office? People are similar...

Human beings can handle absolutely anything in the moment; it is the thinking about it that makes it a problem.

#Socialdistancing is not precisely what we are doing… and that is not a bad thing. What we are doing is physically distancing while...

When people are in the midst of a crisis, they say things like, “Did that only happen two days ago? It seems like a month went by!"

As a crisis communications specialist, I have been talking with nonprofit organizations in the past few days about how to communicate with their constituents...

Blog about 4 things companies can do to facilitate multigenerational understanding and collaboration.

Blog post about Millennial job hopping, which is not as frequent as we think it is.

For companies, understanding Millennials and Gen Z workers is more and more vital by the day. But just how similar—or different—are these two groups, especia...

Gen Z—and to a somewhat lesser extent, Millennials—have grown up in a world where virtually everything is available immediately on demand at their fingertips...

I mentor several younger women who work in a variety of fields, including management consulting, communications, software development, and real estate, among...

I spoke on a panel this week for the European American Chamber of Commerce about hiring practices in the United States. The audience comprised the Consul Gen...

If you want to know just how much Millennials are changing the world, you need look no further than Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duc...

I had a conversation at dinner with a colleague about the different ways younger and older generations communicate. Broadly speaking, Millennials prefer emai...

Today, young adults do not have to go looking for news. News goes looking for them. What do I mean by that? The best way to explain it is by regaling you wit...

The Great Recession of 2008 affected all of us, but if you want to understand why young adults have no interest in jobs in Corporate America, you need look n...

They may be young, but Gen Z now accounts for 40% of consumers and already influences between $29 billion and $143 billion in direct spending. Since the youn...

The one thing companies can be grateful for this Thanksgiving... The massive change in the marketplace thanks to Millennials and Gen Z. Why? Because change f...

I gave a leadership talk this morning to an angel investment group of mostly Boomer and Silent Generation women about managing five generations in the workpl...

As a Gen Xer, I have been around long enough to remember corporate retreats as schmoozy events in La Jolla or Miami, where only senior level executives went ...