Bree Groff is a company culture, engagement, and leadership consultant, and serves as a senior adviser to the global consultancy SYPartners. She has guided executives at companies including Calvin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how creativity and communications accelerate success. Sep 15, 2025, 06:13pm EDT Bree Groff knew that work would be ...

It’s time to bond outside the Zoom room with your co-workers. No, really. Slack is great and all, but a best friendship it does not make. “On a professional level, work friends can be trusted people ...

Watch what happens when two real coworkers get vulnerable with tough (and fun) questions. It doesn't matter if you just started a new job or have been working at the same place for years, we all can ...

Priya, an engineer in California, was on a deadline. Under pressure, she emailed a younger friend working on the same project to ask for some data that the project needed to get done on time. She and ...

Common mistake #1: Underestimating oneself. The area is personal influence. Vanessa Bohns, author of You Have More Influence Than You Think (2021) and a professor in the School of Industrial and Labor ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Co-Founder, Conspiracy of Love, and Good is the New Cool. It started in a waiting room. Bree Groff was sitting beside her mother ...