News from the Peak

Maureen Leif has a conversation with Liz Bullard and Puni Kalra. It starts as a discussion about Executive Coaching, and winds up covering a lot of really interesting and intriguing topics.  Puni Kalra has a Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver, and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), and has been providing leadership development and executive coaching s...

We are very pleased to be releasing our 10th Episode, and to welcome our guest than Irma J. Neal. Irma is the Co-Owner and Senior Partner at Onyx Rising Financial Services, and before that had a long and successful career in Government and Human Services in both the public and private sectors. Her recent book, Leading in Chaos, is available on Amazon and Audible, and links to the book can be found...

David and Maureen interview Mariellen Keely, Policy Program Consultant with the Virginia Department of Social Services. Mariellen talks with us about the kinds of digital marketing approaches seem to be working for the Virginia child support program, how programs can get past their fears of social media (and especially the negative comments that seem to come with the territory), and what the next...

As pride month draws to a close, we wanted to dedicate an episode to hear from people close to us about what Pride Month means to them, and what it was like this year.  We were fortunate to interview 4 people for this project, and actually wound up with so much good stuff, we decided to make it a 2 part series. Part 2 features interviews with Joe Jean and Leigh Mamlin. 

As pride month draws to a close, we wanted to dedicate an episode to hear from people close to us about what Pride Month means to them, and what it was like this year.  We were fortunate to interview 4 people for this project, and actually wound up with so much good stuff, we decided to make it a 2 part series. Part 1 features interviews with Harry Mamlin and Mike Lockner.

On this episode about modern human-centric designed technology for use in human services and specifically child support. We at Grays Peak Strategies have been working with a team from IBM for about a year now on a new approach to human services systems. Maureen Leif has a conversation with Jarrad Dann and Mike Lockner to talk about our approach to system development and how this can be applied any...

On this episode Maureen Leif speaks with Ron Haskins, to discuss the impact that the current COVID crisis has had on Child Welfare. Ron Haskins is a Senior Fellow and Co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the Cabot Family Chair in Economic Studies. Together with Morgan Welch, a project coordinator on Children and Families also at the Brooki...

In this episode, Maureen Leif speaks with Danielle Becwar about difficult conversations. Having a difficult conversation can be dreadful and often times we put them off and let things fester. Danielle has some great insight on this podcast on why we dread it so much and therefore how we can make it goes as smooth as possible.

In this episode, Kenora Dagon has a conversation with Maureen Leif about working from home. Maureen made the transition from an office environment to working from home when she started Grays Peak Strategies about 5 years ago. She talks about some of the ways she has been able to make this transition work, and how this recent situation has caused her to need to shift even further.

In this episode, Maureen Leif (President and Executive Producer) has a conversation with Tara Risser. In her role with Equinix, Tara has been managing teams around the globe for many years. While she has a lot of experience managing from a distance, during the COVID crisis, even she has had to make some adjustments.

In celebration of April being Child Abuse Prevention Month , I was excited to be able to interview Anna Michaels Boffy today on an edition of our Podcast News from the Peak. he is the Family Support Program Manager at Illuminate Colorado . Illuminate Colorado, a non-profit organization with the mission of strengthening families through some direct services as well as advocacy and policy work. In t...

On today’s show, Producer David Ramm has a conversation with Brett St. Clair, a marketing and communications expert, to discuss Crisis Communications. Brett is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America and has more than 25 years of experience in the field of public relations and communications. He offers some really helpful ideas and examples of how to communicate in a crisis.

This is our preview episode of our new Podcast, News from the Peak. You will hear from the creators of the show as we discuss our plans for the coming season. The focus of the podcast is to share and discuss news related to human services. In addition we have some interviews and round table discussions lined up on a variety of timely topics. Please subscribe and follow us - and we welcome your com...