Happy New Year 2022! I'm so ready to turn the page on the last year and am hopeful for what this new year will bring. We're seeing more and more people come into our workspaces to join our Work Awesome community. My wishes for you this year include joy, happiness, new opportunities and prosperity.

Who knew that almost two years into this pandemic we would still be navigating the workspace protocols for keeping safe and healthy? The last few weeks have been challenging as we have had more illness among our team, but our mission continues to be one of service to our entire community while keeping our workspaces protected. Thank you for your patience and support as we travel this path together. Here we are, 40 years into supporting the Twin Cities’ business community and still going strong. I credit the ability to pivot and change as the market and science dictates. Some days, we make great decisions. Others, we do the best we can. All I know is we try hard each day.

I was talking to business colleagues over the holidays and was asked, “How are you able to get through all of the challenges of the past couple of years? How do you know what to do?” I’ll let you all in on a little secret, some days I don’t know what to do. I take the advice of a wise person who once told me early in my career, “You need to make your best guess, and if that doesn’t work, change directions quickly!" That is the promise I make to all of you as we work to reinvent our education seminars and networking groups. We will do the best we can and continue to work to make every day a Work Awesome experience.

This month we will finally finish the remodel at France OC. Stop by and see the changes we have made, especially in the coworking space. Hopefully this spring we can plan a gathering to celebrate the completion of the project! Whatever we do, I know that we are stronger together. Let’s make 2022 a memorable year for all the right reasons.