Annette Dernick is a Speaker, Coach, and Author whose mission is to bring more Love & Peace into companies. Her work is rooted in a truth she has witnessed for decades: when people feel safe, connected, and appreciated, they unlock strength and creativity that transform workplaces. After earning her degree in Business Administration, Annette stepped into leadership roles in marketing and sales controlling. What touched her most were not the numbers but the human stories behind them. She realized that peaceful, trust-based workplaces create healthier people, stronger teams, and more sustainable success. This insight led her to found her own company and dedicate herself to building cultures shaped by clarity, compassion, and cooperation. For more than 30 years, she has […]

Grace Remington is a U.S. immigration attorney, leadership development consultant, and organizational wellbeing coach who helps global mobility leaders navigate complex cross-border challenges with clarity, empathy, and strategic precision. With more than a decade of experience across USCIS, the U.S. Department of State, and private practice, she blends deep immigration expertise with a coach’s ability to elevate human performance in high-stakes environments. Grace’s perspective is shaped by living and working internationally—in Mexico, Kenya, Qatar, and the U.S., along with studies in Vienna, Austria. She has relocated as a single professional, as part of a couple, and as a parent, giving her a 360-degree view of the emotional, cultural, and logistical realities global talent faces. She helps organizations strengthen mobility strategy […]

Some of us feel a bit low in December. There are several reasons for that. One might be that you look back on the year and feel you have not made great strides: You worked hard, but you did not necessarily achieve the financial success you had envisioned. Or your health took a toll from everything you are trying to juggle at once. You dread Mondays. Instead of starting your laptop to go through another day of meetings (that could have been an email), you look at the globe you got from your grandmother as a kid. You have been sitting at this desk for too long and wish to smell the spices in a market in Amritsar, walk through […]

These days, if you’re not on LinkedIn or any equivalent jobs platform, you’re either sitting on a large inheritance or seriously out of touch with the industry. For freelancers in particular and job seekers in general, having a digital presence is now perhaps as essential as being qualified to work, to begin with.

Yesterday, on the way to a meeting the train announced another death on the tracks. At this time of the year it happens more than at other times and even though I am used to hearing these announcements they always make me sad. Another human who suffered depression or anxiety and did not see another solution other than to end their life. Another life wasted. During this time of the year, it’s not jolly for everyone. I was reminded that some of us aren’t lucky and privileged. Even in such a wealthy society, we have poverty, and many people get by working in restaurants, health care, and child care for less than the minimum sustenance. And we don’t often know […]