by McDermott + Bull | Nov 17, 2020 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles, White Paper
CORPORATE CULTURE I recently came across a photo on LinkedIn that made me smile. It was of a senior executive I had placed at a Goldman Sachs company having dinner with his wife and two other couples. His caption read: How do you know when the balance shifted from...
by Tori Leets | May 12, 2020 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles, White Paper
EXECUTIVE COACHING: ENHANCING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY You may have seen a profile of Professor Brené Brown on CBS’s 60 Minutes in March. She has spent her career studying vulnerability in human behavior and emotion and applies that research to relationships, parenting,...
by McDermott + Bull | Jan 15, 2020 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Cautious optimism seems to be the consensus among our firm’s clients heading into 2020. Although some pundits are predicting a dramatic and near-term market correction, supporting data is decidedly mixed. Changes in expectations...
by McDermott + Bull | Oct 12, 2019 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Diversity, Inclusion + Equity, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Diversity & Inclusion (also known as D&I; or Inclusion & Diversity) have been buzzwords within corporate circles for years. No longer are these simply catch phrases, but instead are now business imperatives. Put...
by McDermott + Bull | Jan 8, 2019 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE In preparing this State of the Market for 2019, I revisited my 2017 and 2018 editions. I found that in each I used the word “optimism” in my first sentence to describe our sentiments towards the market. Our optimism remains, but...
by McDermott + Bull | Dec 10, 2018 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Preface – As we shared in the preface to part I of this two-part article, we are distilling the executive interview process. We have prepared this article in two parts in order to compartmentalize the different components of the...