Strong teams start with strong leadership.

5 Leadership Habits That Quietly Push Great Employees Away

May 19, 2026 | Comments Off on 5 Leadership Habits That Quietly Push Great Employees Away

If you’ve ever had a terrible boss, you know the importance of improving leadership skills. But if you’ve ever been the boss yourself, you know that building leadership capacity is easier said than done. Leading an organization, any organization, is a challenging balance between being too much of that, and not enough of this. People…

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Great leaders make room for every voice.

Leadership Starts With Making People Feel Like They Belong

May 13, 2026 | Comments Off on Leadership Starts With Making People Feel Like They Belong

Earlier this month, The Women of Community Impact gathered for a milestone event with a meaningful purpose: our 10th annual Mother’s Day dinner at Home of Hope, a transitional living program serving mothers and children experiencing homelessness in Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was a wonderful evening celebrating mothers and motherhood. This event may have begun…

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Thank you, Mom!

Five Business Lessons I Learned from My Mom

May 6, 2026 | Comments Off on Five Business Lessons I Learned from My Mom

With Mother’s Day this weekend, this is a great time to take a moment to honor all of the hard-working women in our lives—our friends, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, stepmothers, ourselves, and of course, our moms. Mother’s Day offers me a reminder of the impact my own mom, Emily Link, had on my life. It has…

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Want to grow faster? Start speaking up.

7 Public Speaking Tips That Can Grow Your Business

April 29, 2026 | Comments Off on 7 Public Speaking Tips That Can Grow Your Business

For many professionals, growth means setting bigger goals: earning a promotion, expanding a business, attracting new clients, or stepping into leadership with greater confidence. But no matter what that next level looks like, one skill consistently separates those who advance from those who stay stuck: the ability to communicate with confidence. Public speaking is often…

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Your network opens doors your pitch can't.

The Secret to Reaching Decision Makers and Closing More Sales

April 22, 2026 | Comments Off on The Secret to Reaching Decision Makers and Closing More Sales

Landing the right clients often has less to do with your pitch, and more to do with your access. It is unfortunately a common problem for sales professionals to make a strategic list of prospects, then struggle to reach the real decision makers. Calls go unanswered, emails get filtered, and every attempt to connect seems…

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