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Thoughts from a fraud examination expert. For businesses seeking to understand the fraud and embezzlement schemes that can restrict growth and damage trust.

Life Investments

May 23, 2017

More often, we don’t have such an obvious heads up for when we can make a difference or impact someone else’s life. A typical warm greeting can turn into a much needed respite to a recipient. A smile and a hug could make another’s day. A truly mindless gesture on a giver could mean a […]

Stickers in Lush Looking Weeds

May 17, 2017

“Ow,” I loudly exclaimed, walking across a footpath in my yard, as I had a million times before. “What the heck? Stickers?” We have never had stickers before. Why now? Good grief. I am mostly barefoot during the summer months. In fact, if I could figure out how to speak at conventions barefoot, I would! […]

Spring Cleaning Email Lists

May 4, 2017

Such a mundane activity but the afternoon has been spent culling out names of past audience participants, who have heard me speak, who no longer read the valuable emails I send. I know that someone else could perhaps do what I am doing, but the decision to remove them from the list is mine to […]

Emergency Preparedness

April 6, 2017

Moore, Oklahoma was devastated by an EF5 (210mph) tornado in May 2013.   Twenty-four lost their lives, including fourteen children, with 377 others injured.   This loud and dangerous tornado stayed on the ground for at least 39 minutes over 17 miles.   Its path was heavily populated with established neighborhoods and schools, just like many of yours.  Witnesses described it as […]