AABP EP Awards 728x90

Opinion

DSC 6869

Guest opinion: Speak up already!

BY PARITOSH KASOTIA | Former team lead, Iowa Energy Office

The instructor asked a question. I knew the answer and desperately wanted to participate, but I didn’t speak.

 

Throughout my life, this story repeated …

DSC 6869

Guest opinion: Speak up already!

BY PARITOSH KASOTIA | Former team lead, Iowa Energy Office

The instructor asked a question. I knew the answer and desperately wanted to participate, but I didn’t speak.

 

Throughout my life, this story repeated …

25684

The Elbert Files: Airport rebuild: how big is big?

The proposal to build a new $420 million terminal at Des Moines International Airport has been described as the largest vertical public construction project ever proposed in Iowa.

To understand what that means, it helps …

25702

On the Record: Cow Town, Sow Town…

Cow town, sow town, plow town… double down 

“How do you make cows cool?” 

Zach Mannheimer leaned over and asked me that during the midst of our Feb. 25 Power Breakfast exploring the Cultivation Corridor …

DSC 6869

VOTE: Are there enough resources to educate future women business owners?

 

While any entrepreneur, male or female, faces a number of challenges when starting a business, women in particular are forced to overcome their own unique set of obstacles on the path to business ownership.…

DSC 6869

VOTE: Are there enough resources to educate future women business owners?

 

While any entrepreneur, male or female, faces a number of challenges when starting a business, women in particular are forced to overcome their own unique set of obstacles on the path to business ownership.…

DSC 6869

Guest opinion: The secret history of women

BY TERRY HERNANDEZ | Executive director, Chrysalis Foundation

When I was in ninth grade, women’s history was not a subject taught at Franklin Junior High School in Des Moines. It wasn’t a course of study …

25582 28

The Elbert Files: Branstad unlikely to run in 2018

Unless you’re a political junkie, you probably missed the Washington Post story a couple weeks ago about Gov. Terry Branstad saying he is unlikely to run for another term. 

The story got little play because …

25588 18

Guest Opinion: Leadership’s expiration date

Recently, a friend said to me, “Leadership has a shelf life.” 

I have been thinking about that statement ever since. The definition I use for leader is someone in a position to influence the lives …

DSC 6869

Guest Opinion: Choosing the road less traveled

BY AMY NEBONS | Owner, Blink Events LLC

 

My name is Amy and I chose the road less traveled.

 

I’m a dreamer, a gal with a million ideas.  I’m an over-calculating, over-thinking, over-analyzing …

rebuildingtogether brd 060125 300x250 1