Nancy Lyons Named EY Entrepreneur of the Year® Finalist Nancy Lyons, Clockwork CEO, was one of 24 leaders named as finalists for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year® 2015 Upper Midwest award. The individuals were selected for their demonstration of excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. “The finalists on this list are all inspiring and I...
Designers: 10 tips for your next interview Thanks to the Savidge Family on Flickr I subscribe to a newsletter from http://sidebar.io/ and it is the cat’s pajamas. Every day I learn something new, find a new technique/tip, or read a fascinating article. That happened a couple of weeks ago when I read a post from Michael Owens called “Designing the Hiring Process.” It was a great article that...
Clockwork Launches New Website for Nation’s #1 Park System The Nation’s #1 Park system, the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board (MPRB), launched a new responsive website to better serve the Twin Cities community. Offering everything from activity sign-up to golf to wedding venues, the MPRB website receives more than 2.2 million visitors each year. The new website elevates users’ MPRB digital experience, and will serve as an...
Clockwork on NBC Nightly News NBC Nightly News featured Clockwork in their November 13th broadcast. Calling us one of the best places to work in America, they showcased the things that we’ve always been proud of: our work culture and values. In it, Clockworkers share what it’s like to work at a company that puts people first and Nancy shares...
Airplane Mode is a State of Mind On a recent business trip I ended up on a flight without wi-fi. That’s right: NO INTERNETS. It was during business hours and I’d planned on working online while in transit, like I do on so many flights. No luck. With no wi-fi, what was I to do? For two hours I worked. And an...
Conversations at the White House Imagine receiving an email from someone at the White House. Now imagine that they wrote to ask you to join them as a speaker at a White House event. That’s what happened to me in May, and a few weeks later I was in Washington, D.C., as a panelist on the Structure of the Workplace...
What Being a “Best Workplace” Really Means On July 1st, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal announced the 2013 winners of their Best Places to Work awards. Clockwork was among the 53 companies whose employees “gave their employers high marks in an anonymous survey on topics such as work environment, people practices and how things work day-to-day.” Over the last few years, Clockwork has won...
Clockwork CEO invited to first White House Summit on Working Families Nancy Lyons, Clockwork’s CEO, will be a panelist on the first-ever White House Summit on Working Families on Monday, June 23rd. The Summit, hosted by the White House, the Department of Labor, and the Center for American Progress, will explore how workplaces can accommodate the changing demographics of the U.S. workforce to support working families, boost businesses’...
Clockwork Wins Three National Communication Awards We’re thrilled to announce we won three 2014 Communicator Awards for the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities website redesign launched in 2013. Announced in April, the collaborative team won: Other companies honored include Coca-Cola, Human Rights Campaign, Under Armour, and National Geographic. The YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, a leading nonprofit dedicated to...
Assessing a Company’s Commitment to Security Security matters If you’re reading this close to its publication date, security breaches and vulnerabilities are everywhere in the news. From Heartbleed to the massive Target credit card breach, digital security has never been more important to the average person. Nancy, our CEO, recently wrote about how you must take responsibility for protection of your personal...
