Entrepreneur Series: Janet Blakemore

I have always been fascinated with entrepreneurs. People who exemplify the courage to launch and maintain a business are inspiring to me. As I brainstormed topics for my blog, I landed on the idea to honor some of these risk takers. Along the way, I have learned quite a bit about leadership, accounting, networking, and other […]

Building a Brand: Branching Out

Branching out is a phrase meant to encapsulate your need to diversify the product line of the central brand concept. Along with this diversification, you will want to expand the media presence of the brand. Finally, in this second implementation, you will want to develop partnerships that demonstrate the utility of the product line. Diversity: […]

Response to Zimmerman Verdict MUST be About A Movement

Update! Deceptions, Distractions, and Disillusionment: Barriers to Your Success and Ours was completed and published February 2016. Find information on the finished text by clicking this link. The Zimmerman Verdict (July 2013) is not about RACE. It cannot be. You cannot allow it to be. My point? Begin with competence to determine the focus, scope, and timing […]

Sustainable Program Design: Sustainability

In order to sustain your program long-term, profit or non-profit, you need a business model that articulates a dependable, predictable revenue engine. I encounter many clients who state, “I’m not doing this for the money.” I often counter, “But, bills are only paid with money.” I understand that money is not your driving force. Revenue […]

Sustainable Program Design: Where To Start

Often, (too often in my opinion) great social enterprises are started and stopped. They were started with the promise of engaging the least of these, filling in a service gap, or enabling community progress. They end with bitter feelings of a community ill-equipped and non-supportive. I mention this because the reality of other social enterprises […]

New Designs for Both MAWMedia.com & COACHMethod.com

Nashville, TN – Observers are beaming over the newly launched designs for the MAWMedia Group flagship sites. Said one viewer, “The previous designs were nice, but these make me realize what they were missing!” Both sites were redesigned with an eye toward user experience and differentiation as their purposes are more clarified. MAWMedia Group’s online […]

COACH goes to the MNPS Conference

Nashville – Michael Wright, President of MAWMedia Group, will be presenting along with others at the 2012 Social and Emotional Learning Conference. Find the conference agenda here: http://www.mnps.org/AssetFactory.aspx?did=70571. The all-day conference, which takes place July 16, 2012, is presented by the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) in partnership with Alignment Nashville. According to the conference […]

About COACH Method

Creating Opportunities and Changing Horizons (COACH) COACH Method is an intervention at multiple systems levels (individual, institutional, and community). The systematic process identifies individual social capital and encourages individuals to seek and participate in social contracts. Individual social capital connects in dyads, connecting to larger social networks, connecting to markets for economic gain that extends [...]