The Handel Gazette_021821

Love, recognition and gratitude this February

Dear all,

February is not only Valentine’s Day, Mistress Day (who knew?), Groundhog Day, President’s Day, and Chinese New Year, it’s Black History Month.

At HG, we recognize the many contributions of the black community to our world, and we continue to be committed to building a culture where all races, cultures, religions, sexual identities and abilities are included, represented and celebrated. You can learn more about HG’s approach to diversity, equity and inclusion by listening to Chrisa and Ty on HG’s LinkedIn Live Diversity Talks.

As a content driven business, each month this year we will be focusing on a particular area of life or element of The Handel Method that relates to broader world events, like International Women’s Day on March 8th, or Juneteenth on June 19th. 

This strategic approach is one of the key activities that is going to propel us into the mainstream conversation. We are meeting our audience and the community where they are, and answering their pain points with practical solutions and advice from the methodology. 

Looking ahead, I can hardly believe that next month will mark a year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s obviously been some year for the world, and an impactful one for HG. In fact, we performed better in 2020 than we did in 2019. That is huge and I want to thank you all for your contributions to our success as a business. It’s inspiring to be a part of.

Be grateful for each other, your families and loved ones...this month and - why not - every other.

Love from,

Shir

CEO, Handel Group

What you’ve been up to...

Over in Edu, Casey launched the virtual Designing Your Life: High School after school workshop for 9 eager high school dreamers, as well as a Designing Your Life series at Wasatch High School in Utah where Stephanie Smith will be supporting with some guest appearances (in person!).Gaby led Creating for the New Year to MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) members, and with Bettina led a 2-day virtual seminar for London School of Economics.Gaby is leading What’s Next: Learn to Human Better, Even in a Pandemic for the MIT community in March, in place of our usual DYL series. Jenny is cooking up a book club activity for graduate students as well.In Marketing and Content… First up in our content calendar: February LOVE month. Theme: Best laid plans! Blogs, posts, inspirographics, all love themed. Maybe It's ME-dia, here we come.January’s New Year, New You campaign sold 50 InnerUs, including 27 from the last week of the month NOW Flash Sale.Michelle Williams' IG Live with Marnie Nir has generated over 10,000 views. Check it out!In HG Corporate... the team crushed their January sales target and produced $944K against a target of $800K.Greycroft (VC Company) has deepened engagement with us to have Ben start coaching seven new people on the investment team and a Building Honest Cultures workshop.VaynerX has expanded our coaching in their company with 53 new humans in coaching with Osie, and additional sessions with Beth and Osie’s existing clients.

Shout outs...

Coaches-in-Training Aileen DeSoto, Jacqueline Denny, Karen Buxel, Stacy Antonelli and Alessandra Morra are assisting with the London School of Economics and NOVA School of Business classes by reading homeworks and writing summaries for participating students.Thank you to Janeen Serino for stepping up to temporarily fill the Events Manager role and doing an awesome job while we source a full-time replacement.Be Social Change is locked in to host monthly events with us! Go Danielle B!Hildie, Kimberly, & Jill all booked themselves on podcasts this month! Go team!HG’s newsletter generated 17 purchases this month which is almost double last year's average. That’s $6.2K in sales and ~1 IU sold per email sent! Go Carly!

Tell your friends…

Marnie is leading our next Inner.University Specialized Course starting February 23rd - Best Laid Plans: How to "Right" Your Dating Profile. It’s exclusive to Inner.U LOVE subscribers. Send your single friends!

Humans shifting:

Beth Weissenberger is currently in the role of President, HG Life and will be working closely training Sally Maxwell, VP, HG Life.Shir Nir has assumed the role of the HG Corp President while Beth is with HG Life.Deb Resto, VP Operations, has officially taken the helm of Ops at HG! Two weeks in and she is running meetings, solving problems and launching into our 2021 initiatives. Vanessa will continue to support her through the month of February and then will be in her new gig as full-time Staff Coach!Now that she has graduated, Beth Halper will be dedicating all of her part-time hours to coaching! We are so grateful for the work she has done to keep HGU growing and running as Operations Manager throughout her training. Keep an eye on her as she rocks worlds as Staff Coach!Shay Edmonds, HGU’s Talent Acquisitions Manager, will be expanding his role in HGU as he takes over as Operations Manager. Shay knows the players and the program (as a CIT himself!) and will be training with Beth over the next several weeks to take the Ops reins within the University.Gemma Ruger has passed all her requirements and is ready for Low Cost Coaching clients. Go Gemma!

...and what’s and when’s. New starters, birthdays, and milestones!

Congratulations to CIT Elizabeth Katz and family who welcomed Ryan Michelle Katz born February 9th, 2020. The beautiful 7lbs, 20" baby girl joins her brother Sam (3) and sisters Hannah (20) and Ellie (18).

Happy Birthday to these amazing humans coming up. Please shower them with LOVE on:

• Saturday February 27 - Deb Resto

• Sunday February 28 - Lora Krulak

• Sunday March 7 - Amber Houmes

• Tuesday March 16 - Daniel Walker (HG’s external video producer)

Keep an eye on your calendar for All Day Events to remind you of team birthdays!**ACTION ITEM:**The Ops team have created a holiday calendar with the dates we are OFF as a company! Please click here from your computer to add the calendar.Upcoming important dates:

• February 22 - 28: Eating Disorders Awareness and Screening Week

• March 14 - 20: National Sleep Awareness Week

• March 7: National Be Heard Day

• March 8: International Women’s Day

• March 14: Daylight Savings

• March 20: First Day of Spring

• May 13: All HG Quarterly Call

Check out other upcoming public events on our website!

This month’s GIF care of our very own Beth Weissenberger leading The Joy Of Self Improvement on DOSE by Daybreaker

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