Laurel Bernstein, Executive Coach

12/30/2025

12/06/2025

For several years I’ve made myself a promise: I will never hurry. This year I’m adding: No matter how long something takes, I’ll be patient.

09/01/2025

Labor Day is one of the two renewal times of the year. For businesses, it’s the final push to reaching your end of year goals. It starts in childhood with new notebooks, new back packs and a fresh start to make this the best school year better.
So how are you going to make the natural renewal day the beginning of something wonderful?
Or are you going to wait four months for another renewal opportunity on January 1?

06/04/2025

Close the kitchen cabinet.

When I asked my son what was something he learned from me, he said, “Close the kitchen cabinet.” Well I thought, “Oy. I hope he learned something more meaningful.”

After thinking about it for a day or two, I realized it was more important than it sounded. He was listening!

Maybe he had left a cabinet door open in his own home and accidentally bumped into it. Or maybe he left it open when someone did a repair in the house and all the dishes got dusty. And I also wondered if someone dropped by and he had wanted to make a better impression. But he listened. And the cabinets are closed.

From watching him function in all types of situations, I can see behaviors that I had encouraged. I can also see simpler solutions that he came up with that didn’t come from something I said.

But what I’m so pleased to see is that he was listening. And has become his own version of adulthood.

05/11/2025

It can take less than a minute to influence someone for the rest of their lives. Be sure you’re doing or saying something you believe in

05/10/2025

Do your core values match the life you live? Are you crossing your bottom line more than you want to? What are you going to do about it?

05/05/2025

As you progress in your professional life, your core values catch up to your behaviors. Sometimes your core values change. And sometimes you’re more able to assert your core value

04/30/2025

There are leaders who insist one their version of perfection. Others believe that encouraging an alternate version of perfection is valid. Both work

09/16/2024

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10/31/2023

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10/25/2023

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01/27/2023

As business owners, we all want to grow by winning new clients. But many of us find it difficult to “convert” new opportunities into paying clients. Nancy Calabrese of One of a Kind Sales, shares 4 Easy Steps to Closing More Business which you can read bout in NJAWBO's The Bottom Line 2022 No. 3 https://www.njawbo.org/the-bottom-line/