Talent Development

Global – October 13, 2026 -- EverHealth's Marley Wagner has laid out a staged coaching roadmap for customer success managers (CSMs): build coaching habits in the first 30-60 days, then shift to a team-wide coaching culture, with six months as the checkpoint for results.

Live customer situations become coaching material in the first 30-60 days

Wagner, head of customer success programs and strategy at EverHealth, tells managers to review renewal conversations, quarterly business reviews (QBRs), executive business reviews (EBRs), difficult customer emails, angry customer calls and executive conversations. CSMs lead these interactions, and managers join and ask questions rather than take over. Afterward, the manager reviews the CSM's decision-making: what went right and what could improve.

The roadmap also tells managers to normalize uncertainty. Wagner's example phrase for CSMs is: "Let me validate that and come back with the best path forward."

New York – October 07, 2026 -- Caracal Products & Services will co-sponsor the inaugural NYC Collegiate Military Boxing Classic, 'Fight to Educate,' on Nov. 14, 2026, with proceeds directed to athletic programs at six U.S. military academies and colleges.

Six military schools will send boxing teams to compete in 12 matched bouts

The event, set for The Léman Ballroom at 41 Broad Street in New York from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., will feature teams from The Citadel, the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Coast Guard Academy, the United States Military Academy (West Point), the United States Naval Academy, and Virginia Military Institute. Boxing legends Ray Mercer and Micky Ward will make guest appearances, alongside a VIP reception for alumni, supporters, and sponsors.

Kaohsiung City – October 02, 2026 -- Zettabyte Co., Ltd. has donated AI computing hardware and its zSUITE software platform to National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, giving faculty and students across the university's 10 colleges access to managed GPU compute clusters for teaching and research.

Donation agreement grants campus-wide access to cluster management tools

The two parties signed the donation agreement at the university, with zSUITE providing administrators a single view of compute allocation and system operation across departments. The platform is designed to let faculty, students and research teams focus on teaching and experiments rather than infrastructure maintenance.

Washington – October 01, 2026 -- The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has awarded $1.5 million in scholarships to 100 students across 46 colleges and universities, naming its Class of 2026 Scholars as the organization approaches its 40th anniversary.

Nearly three-quarters of scholars attend HBCUs

Close to 75% of the 2026 cohort are enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The group spans 46 institutions, including Howard University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Technology and finance dominate scholar academic fields

Twenty-five scholars are studying computer science, information technology, data or cybersecurity, while 22 are pursuing finance, investment or banking. Seventeen are focused on business, management or supply chain, and 10 are studying engineering.

Louisville, Ky. – September 30, 2026 -- Midea America Corp. has opened an expanded Midea America Research Center (MARC) in Louisville, Kentucky, growing the facility's footprint by approximately 400% to 157,000 square feet and adding 22 new laboratories.

Facility adds 127,000 square feet and 22 laboratories to support appliance development

The expansion includes 127,000 square feet of additional space, a product showroom, an auditorium and dedicated collaboration areas. The center brings consumer research, engineering, product development and testing under one roof, supporting Midea's U.S. product lines across refrigeration, dishwashers, cooking, laundry, air treatment, floor care and small appliances.

Tokyo – September 24, 2026 -- TIER IV, the developer of the open-source Autoware autonomous driving platform, has released a reference design for autonomous racing kart systems on a public GitHub repository, providing a common technical foundation used by 240 teams and roughly 600 participants in Japan's Autonomous Driving AI Challenge.

240 teams built on a shared open-source foundation during the JSAE-organized competition

The Autonomous Driving AI Challenge, organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE), ran from July to September 2026, with qualifying and final rounds using TIER IV's reference design as the baseline development platform. Final rounds took place September 19-20, 2026, combining simulation-based and real-world vehicle challenges with racing karts.

Baton Rouge – September 19, 2026 -- The Inner Circle has named Asia Alexus Alexander, M.S.M., a Pinnacle Professional of The Year for her work in marketing education. Alexander teaches marketing at Southern University and A&M College, where she structures coursework around live case studies, industry guest speakers, and analytics-driven projects to replicate the pace of modern marketing agencies.

Curriculum design mirrors agency workflows to prepare graduates for immediate industry contribution.

Winter Park, Fla. -- September 18, 2026 -- Full Sail University reported that 124 of its graduates were credited on 52 winning projects across 85 categories at the 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, with three alumni also winning individual Emmys for their own work.

Judah Getz claims three Emmys for ADR mixing across three different series

Judah Getz won Outstanding Sound Mixing awards in three separate categories for his work as ADR Mixer on "Pluribus" (comedy or drama series, one hour), "Beef" (limited or anthology series or movie), and "Widow's Bay" (comedy or drama series half-hour and animation).

Sound editing honors go to Jerry Lafuente and Andy Sisul

Jerry Lafuente won Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special as Sound Effects Editor on "Beef." Andy Sisul won Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) as Co-Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer on "Spider-Noir."

New York – September 17, 2026 -- MatchPoint NYC co-founder Dmitry Druzhinsky is expanding the organization's training infrastructure, using the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games as a benchmark to evaluate a multi-year athlete development strategy.

MatchPoint NYC prioritizes multi-year athlete progression over short-term tournament results

The organization's strategy focuses on consistent preparation, progressive skill-building, and physical conditioning as athletes advance toward higher levels of competition. Rather than judging success through immediate tournament outcomes, the model tracks what athletes can achieve over several years.