Marquis Who’s Who® has announced the selection of Tracy L. Teuscher, MS, APR, OCVN, as a Who’s Who in America® biographical honoree.

Inclusion is limited to individuals who possess professional integrity, demonstrate outstanding achievement in their respective fields, and have made innumerable contributions to society as a whole.

With a distinguished career spanning more than 25 years, including nearly 20 years as the founder and president of The Buzz Maker®, Teuscher has established herself as a leader in her profession and the community.

Since 1899, when A. N. Marquis printed the First Edition of Who’s Who in America®, Marquis Who’s Who® has chronicled the lives of the most accomplished individuals and innovators from every significant field of endeavor, including politics, business, medicine, law, education, art, religion, and entertainment.

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In a recent interview with Authority Magazine, we talked about the importance of sustainability and climate justice. We explored what climate justice means, how businesses become more profitable by becoming more sustainable, the intersections between social, environmental, and climate justice, and how we can operationalize it.

Climate justice is an aspect of environmental justice directly related to social justice. Climate justice recognizes that the negative impacts of climate change disproportionately affect already vulnerable human communities based on race, gender, age, ability, income, education, geography, and other factors, and also disproportionately affect more-than-human communities that have suffered the greatest harm. Environmental justice is concerned with creating an equitable continuum of care for both human and more-than-human communities.

We must move away from a profit-first business model and toward business models that value people and the planet first. Then, profit becomes a byproduct.

Read the full article here.

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Join me, Lala, and Brian for a special episode of the Everything’s Not Black & White podcast called Healing With Nature.

Learn how compounding stress and trauma affect our physiology. Explore how nature-based healing and resilience practices work to restore balance to our minds and bodies, while activating our ability to heal faster, resist disease, and experience more joy. 

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts & Stitcher.

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What a pleasant surprise to learn that we follow the Horst Schultz rules of excellence. Schultz is the co-founder of the Ritz-Carlton Hotels Company, and I heard him speak on a podcast this week.

Read this week’s blog to learn the 8 Rules of Excellence we share with some of the most elite service providers, and the reasons they create customer loyalty.

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Are you leveraging your LinkedIn profile?

Have you heard how much a professional photo amplifies your visibility? Are you familiar with the top 10 sections of your profile? Do you know what the character limit is for the Summary section, and the number of skills you can add to the Skills section? Have you discovered how to customize your LinkedIn URL?

Here are 10 ways to optimize your profile performance and help you get found.

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