May 13, 2020

Creativity isn’t a switch you can flip. When the power is out, don’t stand there, flipping the switch on and off. So, what CAN we do to get creativity flowing again? Our resident creativity expert, Claire Stuart, tells all.

March 31, 2020

In honor of Women’s History Month, we profiled five female leaders making waves in employee experience and communications that you need to follow, if you aren’t already. Get ready for some firepower!

November 20, 2019

We’re always excited to explore offices that allow pets — and the benefits are significant. While we may not qualify as a pet-friendly office, we wanted to celebrate our pets and their contributions to our team's brilliance.

July 2, 2019

Happy Pride! With June in our rearview, we’re taking a look at how Pride celebrations showed up in the corporate world, how companies are celebrating their people and how Pride is being used as a marketing tool.

June 7, 2019

We also create a lot of little humans, or as we like to call them, Brilliant Babies. As our team gets ready to welcome two new mamas back to our ranks, it got me thinking about the complexities of parental leave and the even trickier bit -- returning to work. 

May 6, 2019

It’s no secret us Inkies are big fans of Brené Brown. She shows up in our blog posts (here and here, to name a few) and even helped inform our recent effort to update our values (read about them here). So we were all atwitter when we heard about her new Netflix special called, Brené Brown: The Call To Courage.

February 28, 2019

Like a lot of people, I recently watched the Netflix documentary Fyre in total disbelief as I watched the festival slowly swirl down the drain. And now it seems the scandal of the festival has even infiltrated the documentary battle between Netflix and Hulu, raising questions about who else is really responsible beyond Billy McFarland. 

December 17, 2018

Podcasts are everywhere. According to some figures, there are over 550k shows and 18.5M episodes ready and waiting, and the numbers are climbing daily. 

October 22, 2018

Adam Ruins Everything… including work. From the traditional work week to the wage gap, Adam leaves nothing untouched and we loved it!

July 16, 2018

We’re often asked to look for opportunities as consultants — which is code for: all of the things that are broken, ineffective, mocked, archaic, damaged, and all-around terrible. While valuable at times, it’s all too easy to get caught up in that mindset and start to see problems everywhere.

June 11, 2018

The Brilliant Ink team is a big fan of Brené Brown and the list of reasons why is long. Like, really long.

April 9, 2018

Telling your culture story in a way that is inspiring, cohesive, and grounded in reality will help you recruit, hire and retain people who can do their best work at your organization. Here's how to get started.