AUDIO: https://www.spreaker.com/user/11522142/2022-in-review-so-far-mixdown
Thanks, Chase Williams and Ryan Klein of Market My Market and Legal Mastermind Podcast! Truly an honor to be included in this mid year recap alongside such fab folks …
“2022 In Review So Far features Chuki Obiyo , Brenda Pontiff , Tobi Millrood , Sarah Tetlow , [me! 😁] Roy Sexton, Steve Pockross , Russ Cersosimo Jr. , Juyoun Han , and Frans Johansson.”
One of the treasures unearthed at my parents‘ house. A cartoon my dad drew of my grandfather based on a Norman Rockwell image. Some of the humor clearly is of another era when a grown man taking good care of a cat was something tease-worthy.
That said, what I love about this, other than the creativity and the warmth it exhibits, is that it shows we’ve always been a “stand back and hold my beer” kind of family.
I will always be proud of that quality, and it will always be core to my personality.
#love #animals #family #art #beyou #bebold #bekind
VIDEO LINKS … Facebook: https://fb.watch/e736QkZrLg/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/tKUrJq2o7L4
Rob Kates and I had a marvelous time chatting with fab Mark Beese, president of Leadership for Lawyers, about the core principles of inclusive, collaborative #leadership, particularly as related to transformational change in #lawfirms. We discuss core change style indicators by leader type (conserver, pragmatist, originator) and how to create greater team balance. Mark also shares with us lessons learned on his recent #scoutjamboree trip to Korea and how #scouting has informed his consulting practice.
Other assorted topics include #dogs, #birthdays, #collecting, #tapemeasures, #tripods, #Cats, #lawyers, #givingback, #millennials, and #compassion.
Legal Marketing Coffee Talk is back this Thursday with host, Roy Sexton, and his guest, Mark Beese, president of Leadership for Lawyers.
Facebook: https://fb.watch/e736QkZrLg/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/tKUrJq2o7L4
Mark helps lawyers and other professionals become more effective leaders, innovators and business developers. As a consultant, he provides insight, direction, training, coaching and support to leaders of law firms, legal departments and professional service firms. Mark’s clients range from small, one-office firms to global Amlaw 100 firms. He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and a recipient of the Legal Marketing Association Hall of Fame.
Roy and Mark promise to have a robust and wide-ranging conversation on the state of the legal industry, where things are headed, and opportunities for legal marketers and business developers within that paradigm. You won’t want to miss this one!
Join us Thursday, July 7th, at 3 PM ET!
Legal Marketing Coffee Talk is brought to you by: By Aries and Kates Media: Video Production
My family often deals with sadness and heartache through wit and humor. I think that’s why many of us take a shine to satirists and absurdists. Mel Brooks. Sid Caesar. Stephen Colbert. Sacha Baron Cohen. Kathy Griffin. Richard Pryor. Noel Coward. Jonathan Winters. Steve Allen. Spike Jones. Carl Reiner. Oscar Wilde.
The arrivals in today’s mail fall right in that vein. My parents loved Dory Previn, the quintessential pop music feminist/satirist, so I had ordered this album for nostalgic healing. And my mom would have gotten such a kick from this letter/sticker combo that I received for my contribution at http://www.stickerformenonly.com.
I think of my mom often right now and about how fired up she would be over the state of the world. And how MSNBC would have been blasting from her TV set 24/7. I can only hope I find ways to honor her legacy and speak up for #teamdifficult.
Thank you, Goodwill Industries International, Goodwill Industries of Northeast Indiana, Inc. , Bill Warriner, and Lori McCutcheon! Susan is remarkable!
Original post: https://www.facebook.com/525651807446116/posts/5555854667759113/?d=n
There’s a bit more to all of this and I didn’t want to overdo my comment, but we were really struggling with a lot of this purging, and, as we pulled things off the truck, Susan was so complimentary about my mother’s taste and how well received her collection would be. It was such a relief and an encouragement.
And then we found out that Susan shares the same name … as my mother Susie Sexton. And there’s more: Goodwill Susan‘s mother was a professor at Ball State University in the speech department, and was one of my mother’s professors when she was there. My mother studied speech at Ball State. My mother wrote a couple of books, speaking at length about how much she loved her years there.
It all felt like fate, to be honest. And did our hearts a world of good!
Wonderful chat earlier this week with Gillian Ward, Matthew Fuller, and Simon P Marshall for Pinnacle about firm culture, global presence, and keeping your team engaged and energized during these challenging times. It is a fun and informative watch!
Click here (choose “register new account” and follow prompts): https://portal.pinnacle-oa.com
Thank you, Drew Dinkelacker and Marketing Accelerator, for this opportunity. It was a delight working with you. Your prep, production, coaching, and hosting are top drawer!
View here: https://marketingaccelerator.com/2022/06/21/major-rebrand-reflections
Drew writes: “Every once in a while in a marketing leader’s life, a major rebrand occurs. On today’s episode of The Marketing Accelerator Podcast – featuring three insights in about three minutes – Roy Sexton, Director of Marketing at Clark Hill Law, is fresh off a rebrand launch, so I hit him up for the inside scoop. #roysexton #drewdinkelacker #rebrand #rebranding”
Excerpt (from yours truly): “What we [Clark Hill Law] learned from the surveying we did was that people wanted to tell their stories about their experience in the firm. This aligned with what we were hearing people expect around culture change, diversity, equity, inclusion, mental health, and so we put pieces together that allowed our folks across geography, across race, sexuality, gender, to tell their stories of their experience in the firm. This benefitted us because our clients want to know what kind of people they’re working with, and also the talent who will come work at the firm wants to know this is a good and welcoming environment. And that just enriched what was a very strong and clean and sophisticated brand with that humanity that was much needed.”
Picture it: 1992. Wabash College Lambda Chi Alpha house. Young Roy was walking through the “tube room” (where our ONE tv was) on the way to do my laundry. My frat brothers were going on in that performative way only young hormonal straight guys can for each other about how “hot” they were finding the “woman” performing on MTV. I giggled to myself when I realized the video they were watching was “Supermodel” by RuPaul.
After I put in my wash, I walked back to find them all a bit crestfallen, as the resident veejay had then interviewed MamaRu and they realized they’d been duped. To their credit, they weren’t spouting off any homophobic foolishness to cover for any embarrassment they may have been feeling. We were a really kind and inclusive house. Always.
All of that said, if you had told me then that I would be holding in my hot little hands today Fisher-Price Little People depicting this fabulous superstar, I would’ve never believed you. But here we are. I’m sure there are some hyperventilating pundits out there sputtering that these charming toys are somehow harming our youth more than guns and devious politicians do. C’est la vie. All I know is that I’m delighted that we live in a forward-moving world where these exist … and that I own them. At age 49. 😅🌈✨
Clark Hill assembled a list of “meaningful media” to honor Pride month, with contributions and (most importantly) heartfelt stories from all across our great firm. Thank you to my colleagues Hannah Reisdorff who organized the list’s development and Ray Koenig and Tobias Smith who are leading our overall Pride recognition activities. Here is my contribution to the list …
For me, there were two albums that helped me as a young high school man living in a small town in Indiana still trying to figure out what his sexuality might mean. Might be surprising to hear but in the late 80s there wasn’t a lot of good guidance for people like me. Lol. But I found a voice in two records that weren’t overtly LGBTQ but were recorded by artists who have always been allies to our community.
In 1989, I wandered into our mall’s Musicland and bought a cassette of Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814. It was all the money I had in my pocket, and that album with its day-glo, percolating inclusivity gave me a summer soundtrack that made me feel like the world could be a better place.
The following summer, I was chosen by the US Senate as a youth ambassador to Japan. A bit homesick, I bought another cassette, this time of Madonna’s I’m Breathless, a pastiche of songs from Dick Tracy and songs inspired by the film. Problematic as the song “Vogue” has become as we are increasingly sensitized to cultural appropriation, nonetheless its thundering pulse and message of liberation – as well as the fizzy camp with which the queen of pop delivered the album’s other show tunes – spoke to my soul and gave me a sense of self.
I still listen to both of these albums often, now streaming, and they transport me to a time of discovery and give me a sense of great gratitude that these artists were willing to push the envelope of popular entertainment and acceptance.
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