Four years ago today my coaching and consulting company Vicarious Partners became a certified B Corp. It took months of visioning, research, assessments, strategy, concepting, documentation, testing, and iteration. I never could have done it (or ever would have dreamed of pursuing it) without the support of my partner Fredrick Selby. Fredrick has been devoted [Keep Reading…]
I coach people at these companies
In a few recent prospect calls, I’ve had folks ask me if I coach people at any companies they would know. “Um, yeah…all of them,” isn’t the best answer. It’s made me realize I don’t do a very good job of naming the spaces in which I work. I suppose I center people over business. [Keep Reading…]
Celebrating 15 Years in Business
15 years in business today. What started as freelance web design for small businesses turned into UX consulting for renowned institutions and has since become executive coaching and culture change for progressive leaders. I am filled with so much gratitude to get to do this work. I am in love with my clients. I am [Keep Reading…]
Designing a More Self Aware Life
It was such an honor to be interviewed by Srini Rao for The Unmistakable Creative podcast in an episode titled, Designing a More Self Aware Life. He asked such deep and thought-provoking questions, it enabled me to give my deepest, truest, most authentic answers. It may have been my best interview yet! Thank you so [Keep Reading…]
Proud to be Whitney Hess, PCC
I am so proud to announce that I have earned my official designation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation —credentials I’ve been pursuing for a year! I received my coaching certification from New Ventures West in June 2014, and since then have accrued more than 750 hours of client contact. [Keep Reading…]
The 100 Most Influential Tech Women On Twitter
Thank you to Business Insider for listing me among the 100 most influential tech women on Twitter. Proud to be number 76! I’m usually a skeptic about these sorts of lists (even when I’m on them). For this one, Business Insider used PeerIndex, a social media analytics tool that assigns users a score of 0-100 [Keep Reading…]
Writing for Huffington Post
A month ago today, I flew up to San Francisco to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. Though it is now in its fifth year and had more than 2,000 people in attendance, I hadn’t heard about it until just a couple months prior. I happened upon it when doing research on meditation programs inside organizations, [Keep Reading…]
Sketched
I was sketched while presenting at An Event Apart Boston 2012 by the highly accomplished artist Fish McGill: The 5 Whys and Fishbone Diagram on either side of my head are techniques I discuss in my talk, What’s Your Problem? Putting Purpose Back into Your Projects. Check out all of his portraits from the event. [Keep Reading…]
Designing the Company, Not the Product
In April, I posted a tweet that became one of my most retweeted of all time. Designing the product is all for naught if you don’t first take the time to design the organization. — Whitney Hess (@whitneyhess) April 20, 2012 It was a single statement that was the culmination of 9 months of identity [Keep Reading…]
Silver Winner of the Inaugural User Experience Awards
I am incredibly honored to have won an award at last night’s User Experience Awards at the Parsons School of Design. I was awarded one of four Silver prizes for my work on the Boxee beta application, and was given the distinction of Best User Centered Design Process. Wow! Thank you so much to the [Keep Reading…]
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