Every day, do you have people asking you the same questions? Congrats, you're the go-to-expert of that topic. I call that your 'gateway brand'. Your personal branding strategy needs to include a gateway brand. Here’s why: A gateway brand refers to a very clear cut concept that lets others know straightaway what: Your value proposition + Service. For me, my gateway brand is that I’m your go-to LinkedIn branding consultant. 😌 Another great example is Holly ’s gateway brand. She’s a career coach for tech talents that want to land jobs at Amazon. This gateway positioning allows you to attract prospects because it sends the message that you are the number one trusted voice, or go-to-person for the solution they are looking for. Simply put: it articulates your value proposition so well, that even external people could promote your services easily. What do you think your gateway brand is? I’m curious 🍗 #stringtheory on #personalbranding #marketing #socialmedia …see more

12 hours in time difference and 27 hours in flight time apart = business as usual for Elizabeth Galbut and me. We built a successful partnership and intimate friendship that helped us through obstacles, distance, time difference, and many ups and downs. Glad to share some of the war stories on the Chief Best Friends podcast! Have a listen at the link or on Spotify! #femalefounders #entrepreneurs #herstory #sogalboss …see more

Thrilled to share our latest S'well  x Starbucks  collaboration! Featuring artist Curtis Kulig, the collection was inspired by his iconic ‘Love Me’ message. Available now in select Starbucks stores. https://bit.ly/2ucz0Ds

I have worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and one thing they have in common is a mindset of abundance and opportunity. Universal Basic Income would give millions the sense of security they need to start a company. Business and creativity would boom. …see more

Hey all! About to go live on the r/politics subreddit. I will begin answering questions at 2:30 p.m. EST Come join the fun! Link here: https://redd.it/avuqn8

The Freedom Dividend is pro-work, not anti-work. It will create more work in our economy and recognize the work that is already being done.

Highlights some new pathways to a secure a prosperous career in today’s skill-based economy #apprenticeship in the New York Times today https://lnkd.in/gaS5s4S Andrew Sezonov Robert Lerman Steve Tressler …see more

It was awesome to talk about product development at GSV Ventures Boot Camp - a virtual event that's catered to 4000+ entrepreneurs - and witnessing so many awesome female founders tackling big problems with confidence and drive. Thanks to Anita Rehman and Global Silicon Valley for inviting me. #productdevelopment #MVP #productmanagers #productmanagement #productmarketfit #customerdiscovery #customerinsights #buildingproducts #founders #entrepeneurs #entrepeneurship #femalefounders #minimumviableproduct …see more

Product Managers, Product Leaders, Strategists and Founders - What’s your process for assessing business and product ideas? What tools and steps you use to set the North Star for the company, establish product strategy, accept/reject ideas, and/or craft a product roadmap that everyone at the company gets behind it to execute? Below are the steps I typically follow. Please share your reactions, add other tools and processes you may use, and share your knowledge for the benefit of a larger community here. #productinnovation #productstrategy #productmanagement #productmanager #ideation #validation #testandlearn #prototyping #innovation #strategy #product #prodmgmt #productleadership #learnings #uxdesign #uxresearch …see more

Recently, I see a few articles per week about shortcomings of Sheryl Sandberg. What bewildered me is that I don’t see as much criticism about the #1 executive, the male CEO & Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. He’s treated like a passive Chairman of Facebook at this critical times rather than the active CEO to whom Sheryl reports. Rather than everyone focuses on the right issues, which are the technical, security, and communication problems at Facebook, they are mistakenly making the recent Facebook events about a Female Leader failure!!! Would we have the same coverages and bashing if Sheryl was Sean Sandberg! I strongly doubt... I’m sure that Sheryl made some mistakes along the way, but I can guarantee every single male and female executives make many mistakes over decades of running companies. I can’t help but highlight that “these high power women” who take on tough roles get “substantially unproportionate fair share of blames” when things go wrong. We saw this in terms of Marrisa Mayer and we are seeing it with Sheryl Sandberg. I really want to invite everyone from reporters to regulators to focus on the right problems and keeping the CEO more accountable or at least as equally responsible as other executives. #leadership #femaleleadership #femaleexcutive #facebook …see more

In digital health’s biggest year of funding, women CEOs emerge as Q3 2017 winners | Rock Health | We're powering the future of healthcare. Rock Health is a seed and early-stage venture fund that supports startups building the next generation of technologies transforming healthcare. …see more

Awesome article on the view of the healthcare system in 2017 by a friend and visionary Dr. Dan Gebremedhin MD, MBA !

Traditionally, it’s been the CDC’s role to give the public and local officials guidance and science-based information during public health crises. During this one, however, the CDC has been sidelined. But worry not! The CDC—which, let’s remember, stands for Centers for Disease Control!—actually has a detailed plan for reopening all aspects of businesses and social services! And yet....The Trump administration shelved this very document created by our nation’s top disease investigators. Let me ask, ‘When you get sick, do you call your doctor’s office for medical care, or do you call your politician for medical care?’ Why on earth would we care what a political organization has to say about a pandemic? There used to be a joke among those of us in medicine. We would say that doctors always thought they were qualified do other—unrelated—jobs, like run hospitals even though they didn’t know how to open an excel file. Trust me when I say that anytime someone extends themselves outside of their training and experience, it never works out optimally. My advice—as a trusted healthcare profession—is this:Find the CDC guidelines for reopening, print it or save it, and use it...and use only it to guide your every move. …see more

Recently I returned from a medical mission in Tanzania and was able to visit the amazing Chimps of Mahale National Park. What an honor to see these remarkable beings in their own community. Human and common chimpanzee DNA are very similar: chimps take the prize as our nearest living relatives, sharing approximately 99 percent of our DNA, with gorillas trailing at 98 percent! In fact, Chimpanzees are rarely represented in African culture, as the locals regard them as too similar to humans and thus "too close for comfort." …see more

Oops Wrong Conclusion: This is Why Its Hard to Advance Medicine and Public Health Remember when “low-fat and high-carb” diets were all the rage, only to be proved (years later), to lead to weight gain, diabetes and heat disease—in part because of all the sugar added to processed foods? Or remember the buzz that oatmeal will stave-off heart disease? (Or eating only meat will not cause heart disease?!!) And I can’t keep up—is coffee good or bad for us?? Well now we can add the lowly and pure aspirin to the list of things that don’t actually help stave-off heart disease (assuming you are just fine). With so much hyping by the food industry, academic research centers and wanna-be food celebrities pushing ‘nutrition’ and wellness, it is almost impossible to figure out what’s actually ‘good for you’ (and I mean from a longitudinal, epidemiological, medical-evidentiary manner...). Selected Excerpt: “The message for the public is that healthy older people should not begin taking aspirin. “If you don’t need it, don’t start it,” Dr. McNeil said.” …see more

Being Human Hurts Patients. Being tired causes errors...it’s true whether you are a truck driver or a doctor. Medical errors are things like getting the wrong medication, being prescribed the wrong test, being diagnosed with the wrong problem. And it’s a huge problem as it is the 3rd leading cause of death. Medical errors happen for many, many reasons including doctors and nurses being tired, distracted, forgetful or simply out-of-date with best practices. Only one of the issues with medical errors is burn out. Lets face it, the bigger problem is that people are faulty instruments when it comes to high reliability, consistency and memory. That’s why I’m hopeful about technology-assisting advancements such as ‘smart’ (meaning automated) order sets, Smart radiological readings for x-rays, and ‘early warning’ technologies that diagnose medical conditions before they’ve advanced, just to name a few. The time is coming when the scope of what doctors do is narrower and more augmented by advanced capabilities. We should embrace this because honestly, right now, Healthcare is a very dangerous place for patients. Selected Excerpt: “There is growing evidence that physician burnout may be responsible for up to 200,000 deaths in US hospitals every year.” …see more

I'm very excited and honored to be appointed to the El Camino Hospital Board of Directors! I'll bring my deep passion for evidenced-based, high quality, dignified healthcare and, health system knowledge, to support the long-term growth strategy for this important independent hospital. Read the entire Press Release here: https://lnkd.in/gQ_zNge …see more

This is such a sad story. This is not a story of (perhaps) the oldest tree being cut down. It's more than that--it's a slap in the face of Our Collective History and Culture. Apparently those involved do not care about History, Biology , Culture , Heritage, Religion , Ecology , Environment, Decency , Humanity , Respect ...beyond for "The Almighty Dollar." These people are immoral and should be held to account . …see more

If you like listening to podcasts, let me recommend you Superhuman Academy's latest episode, in which I talk with Jonathan Levi - about topics such as my way towards becoming The Medical Futurist , practical pieces of advice for improving your "digital" health, some book recommendations, and whatever that could fit in 45 minutes. (Don't be discouraged by the ad in the beginning!) #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #fromchancetochoice #podcast #interview #superhumanacademy …see more

I just gave a talk remotely at Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre's Research Conference that is taking place in Melbourne, Austraila. I talked about the context around #digitalhealth technologies and why we are living in an age of a cultural transformation of healthcare. You know Australian patients are lucky when audience members ask questions such as how they can prepare for the age of A.I. or what first step they should take to obtain "technological intelligence". No reluctance, no skepticism, but good heart and a commitment to change for the sake of patients. #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #fromchancetochoice #speaker #keynote #speakerlife …see more