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📰💡 Start spreading the news: networking is back. But did it ever go away? In the business of hiring, it's personal. Relationships matter. Who you know matters. We're all about making connections, and that's something that even the best technology (sorry, AI) doesn't always get right. What do you think? Is 'who-you-know networking' back? How are you approaching hiring?

🌈 Proud to celebrate #Pride this month and every day of the year. Let’s take this month to educate, support, and uplift each other, and to celebrate the vibrant and diverse community that makes us stronger. Let's do it with pride, unity, and love — and a little magic. 🏳️🌈 ✨ 

🚀 So you built and sold a brand. Now what? We help founders across the consumer economy find their next opportunity where they can harness their magic so they can continue to build and elevate teams and companies. 💡 ForceBrands Principal Andie Turitz says that founders often ask her for advice on their next career chapter. Her recommendation? Explore venture capital and private equity firms where they can make a big impact on portfolio brands. ⬇ Have a career question for us? Drop it in the comment section below and we'll share our insights. #hiring #recruiting #ExecutiveSearch #founders #founder #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #ConsumerBrands

📣 We're thrilled to collaborate with Jeff Church for the CPG Brand Accelerator this fall. Join our Co-Founder and Chief Progress Officer Sean Conner in October for a panel discussion about the state of consumer brand talent. Stay tuned for more details! 🚀 Learn more about the accelerator here: https://forceb.co/3KHnkQ5

🎉 Congratulations John McNally on your role as Executive Vice President of Commerical Sales at govino (ForceBrands team: Rachel Doueck (she/her) and Nina Lapenta). Wishing you all the best in this exciting new chapter. Cheers to your continued growth and achievements!

🌟🗽 We love any opportunity to be a #ForceForGood. We had an incredible day volunteering at the Food Bank For New York City. A huge thank you to Lisa Lanza for organizing our New York City team and to our DEI committee members Connor MacWilliams, Sean Conner, Rachel Mayse (she/her), and our DEI advisor Adriele Parker for their dedication and support. 🍎🤝 Special shoutout to our amazing volunteers: Julie Fabricant, Bruce Brustmeyer, Dustin Cherry, Emily Wallace, Anna Johnson, Andie Turitz, Lisa Lanza, Lauren Nitting, Melissa Golden, Sean Conner, Olivia Rodriguez, and Alexandra Allen. #VolunteerWork #TeamSpirit #CommunitySupport #DEI

✨💡 #FollowTheLeader: If you're seeking entrepreneurial pearls of wisdom, advice on brand building, and leadership insights about how to nurture and develop talent, John Foraker, Co-Founder and CEO at Once Upon a Farm, is one to follow. 💭 "What's particularly important to me? Building a culture that encourages creativity, innovation, willingness to risk failure, deep partnerships, doing the unexpected, operational transparency, a sense of humor, and bringing out the passion in others. My most important values? Honesty, and always trying to do the right thing, even and especially when no one is looking." #leadership #BrandBuilding #GrowthMindset #ConsumerBrands

💭 In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, we asked you how your organization prioritizes your mental well-being. According to data from our LinkedIn poll with nearly 700 responses (https://forceb.co/4aoDKXX), the majority of you said that your company does NOT prioritize your mental health. Here are some ways companies can step up and help hack mental well-being at work: 📚 How Companies Can Support Employee Mental Health ✔️ Provide mental health education Education is a key step in helping employees recognize they are struggling. Provide online resources or talk about these issues in company-wide emails. One of the best ways to educate employees is by bringing in an expert to discuss common work-related mental health issues. ✔️ Communicate, communicate, communicate A lack of communication is commonly cited as a major workplace stressor. A survey by Harvard Business Review found that employees who see their managers as poor communicators are 23 percent more likely to experience poor mental health. Specifically, talking about mental health from the top down helps destigmatize it and allows employees to engage in open conversations about mental health more freely. ✔️ Mandate time away from common stressors Working from home is one of the most common issues cited as particularly stressful by workers today. While many people enjoy the benefits of not being in the office, it can also take a toll mentally. Encouraging employees to take real, unplugged vacations, occasional mental health days, or even simply designating a day of the week free of virtual meetings can go a long way toward allaying people’s most common work-from-home anxieties. ✔️ Offer mental health services as part of your employee benefits program Employee benefits that support mental health can include therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, and other mental health professionals who are part of your company’s in-network health plan. Ensuring that employees don’t have to use PTO to take advantage of these types of services and offering other benefits like paid bereavement leave will only make employees feel that much more supported. ✔️ Manager-level support is crucial As a company leader, putting in place, and even mandating, the mental health action items above is a great start. The first step toward supporting employees’ mental health is seeing that leadership is committed to it. Let us know in the comments section below what would be most valuable for improving your own mental health at work. Read more here: https://forceb.co/3KetZkl #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAtWork #wellness #WorkplaceWellness

🎉 Congratulations Matthew Anselmo on your new sales leadership role (ForceBrands team: Jessica Tully (she/her) and Anna Johnson). We're so grateful for our partnership with Bloom Nutrition and are excited to continue collaborating with their founders Mari Llewellyn and Greg LaVecchia. Here's to unlocking the next big growth stage together!

🪄 ✨ We're grateful for our founder community and the magic that they bring every day to such game-changing brands. We recently caught up with Jake B. of Cann to learn more about how the cannabis-infused seltzer is carving a unique niche in the growing 'sober-curious' movement. Some highlights from our conversation: 🌱 "I think there's a lot of opportunity on-premise. We have to figure out how this market exists in retail and have some continuity there first, but on-premise is coming." 🌱 "We want to look to the younger generations to understand trends, because we're already too baked in our behavior patterns as we get older. Every study that we see that has come out in the last couple of years is showing that on the whole people are drinking less alcohol, and the younger you are, the less you're drinking." Watch the full episode of #CannabisMatters with series host Eric Rosen here: https://forceb.co/3KhuOst #cannabis #BeverageIndustry #leadership #founder #CannabisCommunity #CannabisCulture