The Question When we think of setting goals at Accountability Works, we very much have a framework in mind. We have known time bounds, 12-weeks or 1-year for our programs. We know how to help people translate what they want to accomplish into goals that they are...

Meet AW Coach Madeline Ruskin Today our Accountability Coach Q+A is with Madeline Ruskin. Madeline Ruskin is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and graduate of Duke IM’s Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program. She...

How do you know when you are making progress? This week I took a deep dive into an interesting book called The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer. The book is based on research...

Simple Changes for a Less Stressed You Last year, I had to change a lot about the way I worked. A health crisis will force you to do all those things you’ve been meaning to put into practice but didn't. Mostly, it taught me to manage stress. As an accountability...

Marissa and I decided to re-imagine the team offering that we had first introduced in 2020. We knew in order to effect the kind of change we were hoping to see throughout companies and culture we weren’t going to be able to coach individual team members. Instead, we...

I was recently reading Arthur C. Brooks book, From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, and he mentioned an equation for satisfaction. Intrigued? So was I. According to Brooks the equation for satisfaction...

This week we are happy to share our AW Member Q+A with Erika Westhoff. Erika is in her second year of our small group program and we’ve so appreciated the energy she brings to her group. One of the things that has stood out to me in observing Erika is how willing she...