Recent Publications
How Coaching Can Change Your Career
Every outstanding achievement in history has been accomplished by someone who was significantly influenced by a mentor or coach. Michael Jordan had Phil Jackson and Howard H. White. Aristotle had Plato. Tesla had Sir William Crookes and Thomas...
Why Self Reflection is The Fastest Way To Self Improvement and Advancing Your Career
Make self-reflection a habitual priority, just like brushing your teeth. “Mirror, mirror, on the wall. How can I be the most successful of them all?” - Homo Sapiens What do you see when you look in the mirror in the morning? Your messy hair? The bags under your eyes?...
Why Leaders Experience Burnout (And How to Fix It For Good!)
Leadership is a constantly evolving skill set, which is why organizations must provide continuous support and space for their leaders. The term "workplace burnout" retrieves 16,500,000 results in 0.55 seconds on a Google search, with article after article...
The 2 Ultimate Ways Leaders Can Optimize Post-Traumatic Growth in The Post-COVID Business World
Everything will be different once COVID-19 has passed. Is your company ready for the exponential growth and surge of business that will inevitably follow? If an extraterrestrial being was looking through a telescope at the world we’re currently living in, I’m sure...
Why Working From Home is Here to Stay (And 3 Steps For What To Do About It)
Productivity doesn't have to suffer because you're stuck working from home. Before COVID-19 hit, it was merely a dream and afterthought to think: Wouldn't it be great if we could work from home? We could sit in our PJ's, drink coffee, and get our work done in peace...
Is Your Business Plan Fit Enough for Success in 2020?
In business, it’s not the biggest and strongest who shall survive; It’s the fittest who wins the game. Your business shares many more similarities with life than it does with an algorithm or binary line of coding software. It is an evolving, consuming, and...
Not All Employee Wellness Programs Are Created Equally
Employee wellness is vital for company growth and the prosperity of business. Where does your company stand on the health of your employees? Workplace wellness programs aren't new to the business world, with upwards of 85% of companies with more than 1,000 employees...
The 3 Ultimate Ways Managers Can Maximize Employee Productivity in The Post-COVID Workplace
Understanding the power of the brain can help you understand how to maximize your business. The only guarantee to come out of 2020 is that everything will be different. COVID-19 has upended nearly every industry throughout the business world, consuming our...
Time is Money, But Not All Time is Created Equal
In the 2020 workplace, we must minimize distractions to maximize our time and overall productivity. We’ve all heard the saying time is money, but as many employers and HR directors have witnessed, an employee’s time can be used in vastly different ways. One hour of...
Create Your Happiness, Don’t Pursue It!
2020 has been quite the year so far. It’s easy to slip and let our minds wander over what the next six months will look like. The last ones have been an emotional roller coaster full of national disasters, political uprising, overt racism, and a massive pandemic that...
3 Novel Reasons Neuroscience Reveals Business Problems are Actually People Problems
If we want to understand the complexities of business, we need to understand the complexities of the brain and break it down into simple strategies for success. Whoever said, “business isn’t personal” clearly didn’t understand the complexities of business. When it...
An Entrepreneur’s Simple 5-Step Guide to Fast-Tracking Their Way to Health
How Intermittent Fasting (IF) can optimize your health to give the competitive edge you need to succeed in business and life. For those of you who read the title above and thought to yourself, "Finally! I've found the secret to health!" realize that you have been...
The Top 2 Ways to Stop Letting Fear Decide Your Fate
How living a life of fear can change your brain’s neural circuitry to always see the glass half empty, even when it’s full. If we could turn back time, I would go back to the day where I first got my license. I’m sure it was horrifying for my parents and literally...
3 Healthy Travel Tips to Make Your Sales Quota
Looking to make travel-induced fatigue a thing of the past? It’s time to change your habits! It comes as no surprise that people are worried about the current outbreak of Coronavirus spreading throughout the world at rapid rates, with news coverage relentlessly...
3 Simple Ways Executives Can Move Their Body To Advance Their Career
How physical exercise can change your brain to set you up for success and take your career to the next level. Everybody’s doing it… Entrepreneurs, business professionals, and HR departments are completely fixated on finding the “silver bullet” for optimizing workplace...
How to Create a High-Performance Mindset Through Ancient Stoic Philosophy
Let’s cut to the chase. How many more articles need to be written about having a bulletproof mindset, blind beliefs, core values, and positive thinking before we realize this information is completely useless…? Now before the swarm of an uprising mutiny...
“I have known Dr. Erik Reis professionally for several years. Individually, he possesses the knowledge and skills to help motivated professionals reach their potential. Now with the collective effort(s) of creating SHIFT, he has taken the complexities of this world and simplified them into simple actionable steps that can be used to improve the output of your business.
Sometimes we just need a new perspective and fresh way of approaching our career and life; SHIFT will do just that for you.”
Peter Thaldorf
Financial Advisor