I’m a scientist and engineer by training, but I’ve always loved reading and writing. Please visit my profile on Medium to read my thoughts on the future of work, entrepreneurship, business, books, future of work, future of education, and more.
I post to Forbes.com, LinkedIn, Lau Labs, Yolanda Lau, FlexTeam, and Liquid.
Please contact me if you are interested in republishing my articles elsewhere, having me write for your publication, interviewing me for an article, or having me write a guest blog.
I am also available for interviews (including being a guest on your podcast), speaking engagements, and other media requests.
Recent posts
- Leadership in the Age of AI (coming soon to Medium and LinkedIn)
- Future of Work and the Need for Entrepreneurial Education (coming soon to Medium and LinkedIn)
- The Power of Kindness in the Age of AI (coming soon to Medium and LinkedIn)
- From Paradise to Progress: AI’s Potential for Hawaii (Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Fast Start: 9 Tips to Onboard Yourself at Your New Job (Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Transforming Tomorrow: Harnessing the Future of Work (Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Tips for Scaling Customer Success (Forbes and republished on Medium)
2021
- How to give feedback to Freelancers, Contractors, and Remote Workers (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Hiring your Startup’s First Customer Success Lead (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Let’s Go Liquid (LinkedIn and Medium)
- Best Practices for Manager-Employee 1:1 Meetings (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Embrace Lifelong Learning for the Future of Work (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Time for HR to Manage the On-Demand Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Professional Development Tips for Startup Founders (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Five Strategies for Building a Virtual Talent Bench (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Remote Work: Creating a Documentation-First Culture (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- How Organizations Can Become Project-based in the Future of Work (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Scaling a Flexible On-Demand Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Eight Practices of Successful COOs (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Six Tips to Build and Integrate Your Flexible, On-Demand Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Five Reasons a Chief of Staff Will Be Your Best Hire (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Hiring for Skills of the Future, Part 2 (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Soft Skills are Essential to the Future of Work: Hiring for Skills of the Future, Part 1 (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Five Ways the Pandemic is Accelerating the Future of Work (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
2020
- 9 Tips for CEOs to Lead with Grace and Compassion (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Modern Businesses Need Modern Strategy (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Seven Steps to Building Your Global, Liquid Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- Increasing Mindfulness in the Workplace (Forbes and republished on Medium and on LinkedIn)
- 8 Steps to Land Your First Consulting Client / Creative Gig (Medium and republished on LinkedIn)
- 6 Marketing Strategies for Independent Consultants and Creatives (Medium and republished on LinkedIn)
- Blended Workforce Talent Strategy: How to Develop Your Liquid Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium and LinkedIn)
- The Future of Work is More than Remote Work (Forbes and republished on Medium and LinkedIn)
- Rethinking the Role of Human Resources in the Future of Work (Forbes and republished on Medium)
- Secrets of Developing a Digitally Ready Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium and Linkedn)
- Tackling Diversity And Inclusion: Sponsors, Consultants And Advisors As Part Of Your Strategy (Forbes and republished on Medium and LinkedIn)
- Clearing The Calendar: How To Identify And Avoid Unnecessary Meetings (Forbes and republished on Medium and LinkedIn)
- Bringing Emotions Into The Workplace (Forbes and republished on Medium and LinkedIn)
- How To Convert Your Salary To An Hourly Rate As You Start Your Consulting Business (Forbes and republished on Medium and LinkedIn)
- Four Breaths to Stay Calm During Challenging Times (Medium and LinkedIn)
- Four Tips for Managing Your Liquid Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium)
- The Future of Work is the Liquid Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium)
- Hiring On-Demand Consultants And Advisors As The Gig Economy Matures (Forbes and republished on Medium and LinkedIn)
- Six Liquid Workforce Trends Employers Will See In 2020 (Forbes and republished on Medium)
- How (and Why) Companies Should Engage the Liquid Workforce (Forbes and republished on Medium and LinkedIn)
2019
- Top Tools for Remote / Distributed Teams (Working Remotely)
- New FlexTeam website is live!
- What is FlexTeam?
- Work/Life Balance is a Myth. Aim for Work-Life Fit.
- What exactly is Project-based work?
- Reflections Inspired by MIT’s new College of Computing: musings on entrepreneurship and education
- Fiction is worth reading (and here are my favorite novels and other fiction books)
- What I’ve learned about people while building FlexTeam: “soft skills” are important (almost as important as computational thinking and writing abilities)
- Why I gave up my consulting business (or why I started FlexTeam)
- Books to Live By
- Moving forward after a historic night