Lynda Hoffman is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Through her business, Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching, she coaches passionate and self-directed business professionals - with or without ADHD - who want to create meaningful personal and organisational change. Lynda partners with clients to increase their personal agency and strategic decision-making. Her extensive experience in the field of executive functioning and mindfulness training supports clients in understanding how their brain functioning informs their behaviour - and how to change what needs changing. She encourages her clients to do the deeper work to create transformational change – the kind that lasts.
The business case for diversity and inclusion has never been stronger. According to a survey by McKinsey, companies with the best ethnic and cultural diversity outperformed those with the poorest by 36% in terms of profitability.
Michael Cifor is an Associate for Tangram Partners, LLC - a consulting firm based in Saratoga County, New York. He has been with Tangram for a year and a half after having been an operations manager for a bottled water and coffee distribution company for over five years. He has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago, an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University at Albany and is an Accredited Member of the American Society of Appraisers with a designation in business valuations. He also has an active Class A CDL and talks to us about M&A and whether or not selling a business in the current environment is a good idea.
DeFi and blockchain technology had another bumper year in 2021, and 2022 is shaping up to deliver more of the same. It’s worth noting that while both receive outsized attention in the media, blockchain technology and in particular, DeFi, are still relatively nascent. If you’re not yet caught up, DeFi, or decentralised finance, refers to financial products like collateralized loans and derivatives that are offered via decentralised blockchain technology rather than the traditional, centralised systems of banks and exchanges. Here are the DeFi and blockchain trends to watch to ensure you stay abreast of what’s happening in this fast-moving space.
Bellerive Attorneys at Law has advised Canacol Energy Ltd, a Canadian natural gas exploration and production company focussed in Colombia, on its offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.75% senior unsecured notes due in 2028.
Frischezentrum Frankfurt am Main – Großmarkt GmbH has announced the purchase of the wholesale market area in Frankfurt/Kalbach from the City of Frankfurt am Main. The firm is backed by over 100 individual traders and trader companies that operate their business on the wholesale market area at Bad Homburg Kreuz in the form of the Frischezentrum.
Italian galenic ingredients supplier Biofarma Group has acquired Giellepi’s Finished Products division, which will be renamed to Health Science but will retain its current corporate structure and managerial organisation.
2021 was an incredibly active year for technology deals. The widespread adoption of remote working and the impact of lockdowns speeding up the process of digital transformation across many sectors led to a sustained investment in businesses in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector, with these industries seeing around 65% uplift on deal activity versus the prior year.
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