Get Barefoot and Have a Great Time! Uncorking the Success of Barefoot Wines by Trevor Burns  Hardship + Hustle + Heart = The Best Selling Wine Brand in America. That’s the magic recipe Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey discovered in 1986 in Sonoma County, California. The founders of Barefoot Winery came to the School of Hotel Administration to […]

This week we were honored to be keynote speakers for the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F) at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University in Upstate New York. Unlike EBV (Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities), the group we addressed last year that was made up of disabled veterans aspiring to become entrepreneurs, […]

Extrapolation is the ability to understand the principle behind an example and apply it to new circumstances. In fact, your ability to do so is a direct measure of your ability to fully understand the principle, not just copy the example. In our fast-paced world with instant answers at the tip of our fingers, it’s […]

With names like Houlihan and Harvey, we feel compelled to weigh in on the latest St. Patrick’s Day parade issue. The nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade is in New York City. Yet here, in the “Rome” of the modern world, where progressive thinking abounds, parade organizers have not yet allowed LGBT participants to carry […]

    Michael & Bonnie were used at work place culture experts on KGO 810 Radio and interviewed by host, Matt Ray, about the Time Business & Money article “7 signs it’s time to quit your job”   To listen to the interview, please the play button below.  

California may become the first state in the nation to require a warning label on sugary drinks similar to beverage alcohol and tobacco products. If California State Senator Mike Monning’s SB 1000 passes, it would require a label that reads “STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and […]

Michael Houlihan was interviewed by multiple Fox News Radio affiliates as a workplace culture expert on “Quitting your job”  To listen to one of the interviews, please click on the link below

As we celebrate Presidents’ Day, we honor our country’s two greatest leaders, George Washington who had to form a union, and Abraham Lincoln who had to hold it together. Both succeeded because they educated the people about the reasons for action. They both had to sell their cause. The takeaway for leaders, whether they are […]

Michael Houlihan was interviewed by multiple Fox News Radio affiliates as a workplace culture expert on “workplace confrontation”  To listen to one of the interviews, please click on the link below

Progressive writers and speakers have been striving for “gender neutrality” for some time now, so as to not favor one or the other. Sounds simple enough until you get into the onerous choices that are available in “proper” English. For instance, when you say “Hi!” to a group of men and women, do you say, […]