As part of our LifeDev initiative, we have lined up Michael Cady to speak on personal finances. Michael is the Chief Financial Officer at Digimedia and has also taught accounting and finance classes at the university level. In this two-session webinar, Michael will discuss some simple steps you can implement now, how to develop discipline, what “budget” [...]

Michael Smith of iMentorLeaders.com spoke with the iThemes team and community today about creating our Why Statements. There were 3 main things we walked away with from this conversation with Michael: MEANING is a very powerful motivator – Ever have a meaningless job?  You probably weren’t very motivated to get anything done, were you? A [...]

As part of LifeDev, April’s theme will be “Defining and Achieving Success.” One of the first learning events we have scheduled is “Determining Your WHY Statement” taught by veteran business leader and coach Michael Smith of iMentorLeaders.com on Thursday, April 19 from Noon-1 p.m. Central Standard Time. In this webinar, Michael will talk about creating [...]

This week I was asked to give a talk to high school students at our local career tech on entrepreneurship. As I thought about the audience and the nature of work, I focused more on finding passions that can translate to skills that you get paid to do. At iThemes, we want to be a [...]

As part of the LifeDev series and pledges, we’ll be asking you every month what book(s) you are reading … in later months we’ll be asking “what did you learn from the last book you read?” as well. So with that, I’ll go first and share what books I’m reading: Upstarts! by Donna Fenn – [...]

The Kickoff of the LifeDev series as part of our Make Waves campaign to “invest in people” went great yesterday with over 60 people participating. Here is the video recording of Life Dev Session 1: Knowing Your Strengths Here are the slides for the session: LifeDev: Using StrengthsFinder For Life & Business View more presentations [...]

To kick off LifeDev in March with the theme of “Know Yourself,” we are going to be talking about two tools we’ve used extensively here at iThemes (and other places I’ve been) to get to know yourself a little better — StrengthsFinder and Kiersey Sorter (based on Myers-Briggs Personality Test). Our kickoff webinar will be [...]

LifeDev, as part of the Make Waves Manifesto “We Believe in Investing in People,” will be kicking off this month in March. One of our core values at iThemes is … learn and grow, then teach and share. We believe in investing in each of our team members … and say that no one should [...]