After delivering a presentation at the Missouri Parks & Recreation annual conference, I was thrilled to overhear my co-presenter, colleague, and friend Patrick Magee describe me as “the best in St. Louis at recruiting and retaining staff.”  And Pat knows, I hate coming up short. February is Recruiting Month at BYLG.  Our goal this year [...]

About five years ago, I sat with my mother on the roof of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York’s Battery Park.  As we gazed across the Hudson at the Statue of Liberty, my mother talked about her grandmother Rosalie, who came to America from Italy in 1893, with all of her belongings in a [...]