How to Make Meetings Actually Awesome for You

Want to run a meeting that is actually good for all involved? Do a bit of up front planning using PALO, suggests Ellen Leanse.  By Ellen Leanse (Tech Veteran, Investor & Entrepreneur) Here’s a question I wish I heard more often: “What would make this awesome...
“Just” Say No

“Just” Say No

  Tech veteran Ellen Leanse to female founders: Stop adding “just” and start adding impact.  A few months into the three-plus years I spent at Eastwick, a Silicon Valley tech strategic communications agency, I noticed something: the frequency with...
2014: Time to Be the Change We Want to See in the World

2014: Time to Be the Change We Want to See in the World

The tech industry is an exemplar. Yet often we forget to act like it. By Ellen Leanse (Tech Veteran, Investor & Entrepreneur)  My friend Jerry – strategist, community architect, and notable brain – worked for an oil company back in the ‘80s. While in the men’s...