Michael Ashley
How Tech Can Help Reboot Our Physical World We’ve placed a huge emphasis on digital innovation in the 21st century. But during the tech revolution, we’ve seen a huge and widening gulf between the cost of analog goods/services compared to the cost of digital technology. For instance, as WIFI and apps’ prices have fallen, costs … Read more
A Divorce Lawyer’s Advice on the Best Ways to Part Ways As a financial advisor with decades of experience, my first question to clients was always, “What’s in your movie?” That’s because I wanted them all to best live out their retirement years. My approach has always concerned the realm of imagination. More than any … Read more
Financial Empowerment for a Happy Ending to Your Life’s Story As a financial advisor with decades of experience, my first question to clients was always, “What’s in your movie?” That’s because I wanted them all to best live out their retirement years. My approach has always concerned the realm of imagination. More than any other … Read more
Envisioning Your Place in the Orbital Age Ever wondered what space can do for you? The next great leap forward in human innovation is here. Introducing . . . The Orbital Age. And it’s all happening in low-Earth orbit (LEO) a mere 250 miles above Earth’s surface―roughly the distance between Boston and New York. Before … Read more
Mastering Philanthropy for Today and Tomorrow’s Healthcare CEOs Collapsing operating margins and ever increasing needs are forcing today’s hospital leaders to (re)calculate where to find needed resources for their communities. Might the answer be the one area where they have the least experience: philanthropy? Vibrant Vulnerability bridges that knowledge gap by facing this critical issue … Read more
Triumphing over Technological Tyranny Are advances in technology working for us or against us? When our phones become our keys to access everything, will our lives be more convenient or more at the mercy of whoever can hack into our devices? Will self-driving cars help us maximize our time and get to our destination safely, … Read more
How Christian Men Create Purposeful Lives By Not Going It Alone There’s a war on men. Often couched in pseudo-serious terms like “male toxicity” or “patriarchy,” the effect is the same: Men are under fire. Unfortunately, the losers in this strife aren’t just men wrongfully vilified. No, we are all victims of a red-hot cultural … Read more
The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges Progress. It is one of the defining expectations of the modern era. But are continued improvements to the human condition assured? What would happen if the only institutions explicitly committed to feeding, healing, sheltering, educating, enlightening and nurturing our communities went away? In The Generosity … Read more
Never Alone: A Man’s Companion Guide to Grief Men don’t do grief well. Fearing vulnerability, we shut down and shut others out. This is to be expected in a society that also doesn’t handle grief well. Instead of preparing us for this unavoidable moment, our culture promotes an unrealistic—and unhelpful—view that we will all live forever. Driven … Read more
Harness the power of artificial intelligence in hiring The typical hiring process is fraught with complexity, inefficiency, and bias and often shuts out the most talented candidates. Decoding Talent: How AI and Big Data Can Solve Your Company’s People Puzzle makes the case for using complex advanced technologies to move past these problems toward effortless … Read more