By Alyce Viens Ah, a New Year is upon us. As 2015 ends and we begin 2016, many of us find ourselves reflecting back on the previous year and making the notorious, “New Year’s Resolutions.” According to Statisticbrain.com, about 45% of Americans usually make New Year’s resolutions; however, only about 8% of those people actually … Continue reading New Year’s “Revolutions” →

Earlier this month, a small group of Nichols students and faculty attended the Massachusetts Conference for Women in Boston, the largest conference of its kind in the country. Along with 10,000 other women, we had the opportunity to hear from inspiring experts from multiple industries, including keynote speaker Shonda Rhimes, style guru Tim Gunn, and … Continue reading A Conference for Women: Inspiration & Motivation →

By Alyce Viens Build-A-Bear Workshop CEO Sharon Price John recently said in a Fortune magazine article, “We often spend so much time creating a thousand reasons why we can’t do something, we forget that we can, and in doing so, lose out on the very process that transforms us and prepares us for the next … Continue reading Rethinking risk →