How has the pandemic changed Robert Kessler’s personal and professional life? His answer is quite different from the responses we have gotten from other WEALTHTRACK guests.
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ROSENBERG: PERSEVERANCE UNDER PRESSURE
Influential economist and strategist Dave Rosenberg has had several times in his career, most notably at the height of the tech bubble in 2000 and another leading up to the global financial crisis in 2007, when he was so out of consensus by being bearish that his colleagues and clients pressured him to change his forecasts.
STANEK – OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Mary Ellen Stanek and her team took an unusual route during COVID. They kept their offices open for business. She explains why they made that choice and how it worked out.
ROMICK – PANDEMIC IMPACT
Steven Romick and the FPA Crescent team were convinced early on that life would return to normal after COVID; they just didn’t know when. Romick describes how they coped and what’s changed.
LIPPERT: LIFE LESSONS
High-performing portfolio manager Michael Lippert is taking the hard lessons learned from a life-threatening accident back in 2015 and applying them to the pandemic experience.
FICKLIN – CULTURE COUNTS
While the COVID experience has been a severe test for many business cultures Polen Capital was already operating a flexible work environment with its ROWE approach, or “Results Oriented Work Environment”. Senior manager, Damon Ficklin discusses some of the personal and professional lessons learned from the pandemic.