Thought Leadership
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"Reputation Matters" White Papers seek to offer deeper insight on a wide range of topics we help clients address.
Specialists in marketing through ideas, information, and insight, Temin and Company turns clients’ intellectual capital into true thought leadership.
We also seek to practice what we preach.
Temin and Company’s own thought leadership includes white papers, yearly client letters and podcasts, published articles, a Forbes.com column – Reputation Matters, Huffington Post and American Banker articles, and appearances in other news articles and broadcasts.
Further, Davia Temin is a frequent public speaker and moderator – for clients, their own client events, and their “high potential” training programs. She also presents regularly at CEO conferences, and has developed a range of “Crisis Game” role play simulations to prepare CEOs, Boards, and client companies for real-life crisis situations.
Buffett Announces Cancer Diagnosis With Characteristic Courage and Class
Reputation Matters, Forbes, April 17, 2012
Yet again, Warren Buffett is leading the way for us all. He has acted quickly, thoroughly, and with consummate responsibility to his shareholders and investment partners in announcing his newly diagnosed prostate cancer. […read more]
Flipping Out in Public – From Jet Blue Pilot to Kony 2012 Producer, Stress Takes Its Toll
Davia Temin, Forbes.com, March 29, 2012
Davia examines what the all external media stimulation we receive every day does to our inner selves in her Forbes.com article on stress taking its toll on people in 2012, specifically citing the recent, public meltdowns of the Kony 2012 producer and a JetBlue pilot. […read more]
Goldman Sachs’ Employee-Gone-Rogue Crisis – Telling Truth to Power or Tilting at Windmills
Reputation Matters, Forbes, March 14, 2012
Davia examines another reputational nightmare for investment firm Goldman Sachs. This time it’s a rogue employee’s public resignation announced in an op-ed in The New York Times, and traveling virtually ’round and ’round the world at lightning speed. […read more]
How Much Is a Girl Worth? Transforming the Girl Scouts at 100
Davia Temin, The Huffington Post, March 12, 2012
Girl Scouts has decided to think big. Think transformation. Think of the opportunities $1 billion can give to our nation’s girls – in terms of after-school programming, in terms of community service activities, in terms of learning to live more healthily, and learning how to throw away “mean girl” role models and adopt the goals of supporting, befriending, teaming up with and honoring one another. These are goals worthy of a hundred-year-old institution that is seeking to be a force for positive change for the future. […read more]
School Shooting In Chardon, Ohio: ‘A Quaint, Lonely Town’
Reputation Matters, Forbes, February 28, 2012
I grew up only miles from Chardon, Ohio. In those days, the only thing the town was known for was maple syrup. Early every spring, just about this time of the year, my parents and I would go down to Chardon’s Maple Syrup Festival, where you could eat all the pancakes you wanted, blanketed with freshly tapped maple syrup. In between rounds you would eat pickles to clear your palate (pickles? Yes, sounds bad, but they were oddly effective.)
Today, Chardon is known for death. Needless death. And just as the maple syrup used to run freely, so now do our tears for such a monumental waste. […read more]
Winning the Email Wars: 8 Ways to Separate the Sacred From Profane In Your Inbox
Reputation Matters, Forbes, February 24, 2012
Davia talks about how spammers are getting smarter, and how she stays organized and efficient while staving off the threat of information overload. […read more]
How To Destroy A Reputation in Less Than A Week: Komen and Planned Parenthood
Reputation Matters, Forbes, February 3, 2012
“Politics and women’s health issues have always made strange bedfellows, but never more than in the past week.” In a bizarre series of actions, Susan G. Komen has alienated itself from Planned Parenthood. […read more]
Christmas in our Souls
Reputation Matters, Forbes, December 25, 2011
Christmas is for everyone. Taken in their most universal sense, the gifts of grace, salvation through sacrifice, God’s love in the world, redemption, service, goodness, moral center, hope and joy are transcendent.
And I am thankful that, perhaps, we are approaching a time when religion is no longer used to divide us, or make one of us superior to another…rather it can be shared across cultures, belief systems, and experience to lift us all. […read more]
Girl Scouts of the USA turns 100: the original women’s leadership pipeline
Davia Temin, Directors & Boards, December 22, 2011
Today, Girl Scouts of the United States of America opens its 100th anniversary convention in Houston. 15,000 girls, adult volunteers, celebrity guests, and friends are all converging on Texas to move girls and women’s leadership into its next century.
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$1 Billion Dollars for Girls
Reputation Matters, Forbes, November 15, 2011
How much is a girl worth? Soon we will be able to say, ‘it starts at a billion dollars, and goes up from there.’ Girls Scouts of the USA launched our $1 billion 100th anniversary campaign for girls, designed to help every girl in America who wants to be a Girl Scout afford to do so. […read more]
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"Reputation Matters" White Papers seek to offer deeper insight on a wide range of topics we help clients address.