Industry insights, lessons learned, and the occasional well-earned opinion — written by Mastermind for Biz members about what they’re seeing in the businesses they run every day, plus the occasional guest post from a partner.
Gabrielle Beaulne of Opening Minds on spotting a changed operating pattern, what resilience cannot create, and the Stop/Shape/Shield pivot — with the slide deck and Burnout Bingo worksheet free to download.
Debbie Hartz shares the questions to ask your benefits advisor before you renew — plus a client story where premiums dropped 24% while coverage went up.
AI gets the headlines, but Alison Edwards wins proposals with a different toolkit — LaTeX and Overleaf for compliance matrices, R for figures that carry evidence, and Acrobat Pro for accessibility.
Jordan Caron breaks down the seven sections of a landing page that turns paid traffic into booked business — hero, empathy bridge, trust signals, and the four other pieces most business websites get wrong.
Alison Edwards on the difference between where your data is stored and whose laws can reach it — why Canadian data residency alone doesn’t settle the question, and the three things to check before choosing a provider.
Alison Edwards arrived at the boathouse with hemiplegia and no idea whether rowing was even possible for her. Eight sessions later she had a stroke that worked, a seat in a double, and something she hadn’t expected to find — a community.
Sankar Nair compares an AI-generated Independent Contractor Agreement to a lawyer-drafted one, clause by clause. Of 33 substantive provisions, only 14 were fully adequate in the ChatGPT version — and the gaps aren’t the ones most business owners would think to check for.