PR for People Monthly JANUARY 2017 | Page 6

December – in – Brief

From Nebraska | Have you explored the nightmare of traveling with a group? Kindra Foster writes about Solo travel: Wanderlust for One!!

From Seattle | In addition to running her business Annie Searle & Associates (ASA), Risk Pundit, Annie Searle continues to teach as a full time faculty lecturer at the University of Washington’s School of Information. She teaches two classes every quarter, one on Information and Operational Risk, and the other on Operational Risk Management in the Private and Public sector. In her courses, Searle uses actual current case studies drawn from business, government and NGOs. As you can deduce from Annie’s article on Kakistocracy, 2017 might prove to be a watershed year for operational risk in the highest echelons of government.

What is Risk to world celebrated designer, illustrator and calligrapher Tim Girvin? Check out his visually compelling meditation on Risk.

Patricia Vaccarino writes about the four factors that are needed to create a strong environment for entrepreneurial risk: infrastructure, outstanding educational institutions, the ability to attract a talented and diverse workforce, and access to capital.

From YONKERS Yonkers! | Patricia Vaccarino writes about the big creative risk she took in 2016 by living long enough to tell a great story.

From the Bay Area | Business Strategist Ron Flavin has a talent for identifying potential revenue streams in any organization and implementing a plan to develop these new sources of revenue. He writes about Assessing Startup Risk.

From New York City | For over two decades, career counselor Lynn Berger has been helping people find bliss in the workplace. Check out her article, The Changing Definition of Risk.

Sally Haver shares a poignant, but terrifying anecdote involving a predatory tenant in her New York City coop.

See the work of our regular monthly columnists: Kindra Foster (on Travel), Barbara Lloyd McMichael (on Books), Dean Landsman (on Digital Strategy), Bill Lulow (on Photography) and Matt Robinson, who writes stories (on Food).