Andreoli Strategies LLC

10/07/2026

One of my favorite parts of presenting my Open More Doors talk recently at the AAUW Mid-Atlantic Conference was watching people gather around the collaboration wall and start figuring out:
Who can I help?
What do I need?
Who could I connect?

We’ve made networking way too complicated with all the talk about expanding our reach and growing our influence. Let’s make it much simpler. Pay attention to the people in front of you. Be curious. Notice what they need. That’s how you open more doors. We could all use a little more of that.

If your team or organization wants more of this energy, send me a message and let's talk.

10/05/2026

"One day when things slow down."

We hear it a lot and have said it ourselves. Waiting until we feel ready or clear is exactly what keeps us stuck. Progress happens in the messy middle, and the thing that moves us forward is rarely a big leap. It's one different choice: reaching out instead of pulling away, pausing instead of reacting, stepping forward instead of staying put.

New on Better at People: One Different Choice. Link in comments

09/28/2026

People ask how a barber became a workplace relationship consultant. After more than two decades behind the chair, the answer is that I never really changed careers. I just kept practicing the same skills: listening well, building trust, showing up consistently, and creating a place where people feel like they belong. Those are the same skills strong teams run on. New post on Substack about what the barbershop taught me. Link in comments.

09/23/2026

What if building a stronger community doesn’t require a big initiative, a leadership position, or a whole lot of time?

Sometimes it starts with something much smaller: noticing someone, starting a conversation, making an introduction, extending an invitation, or simply deciding to participate.

That’s what we’ll explore in Connection in Action with Dauphin County Parks & Recreation on Monday, October 12 at Fort Hunter Park.

I’ll be sharing practical, real-world ways we can build trust, create connection, and strengthen the sense of belonging around us—at work, in our neighborhoods, and in the communities we’re part of.

Because strong communities aren’t something someone else builds for us. They’re built through the small things we do with and for one another.

Monday, October 12 | 6–7:30 PM
Fort Hunter Park, Barn Room 1
$14 per participant

If you’re interested in what connection looks like when we actually put it into practice, I’d love to have you there.

Register: bit.ly/connectioninactionparkrx

09/21/2026

Your attention is not neutral. Where you point it becomes your reality. This week I wrote about why reclaiming your focus, on purpose, is the first real act of resistance.

The national feels urgent. The local is where you actually matter.

09/16/2026

I got to do my very favorite kind of workshop today! Thank you to Lynda Morris and Anne Lauritzen for the opportunity to present at the Cradle to Career Alliance meeting this morning. Open More Doors teaches how to approach networking differently by intentionally growing your social wealth an accessing all the hidden resources available in any room. SO much more fun than trading business cards!

08/31/2026

No part-time job at 16.
No awkward dance you had to survive.
No decision you got to get wrong on your own.

A lot of young employees didn't skip a step in becoming an adult. They had it removed for them.

Confidence is built by surviving failure. We forgot that and now we're calling the result a generational character flaw.

Read more in this week's substack:

The work ethic problem that isn't

08/20/2026

The Indicator for Planet Money podcast recently did an episode about bad managers.

David Deming, a Labor Economist and Dean at Harvard College, said this:

"I think that emotional intelligence-- what I would call social skills, like, ability to work well on a team and work well with others-- is the most underpriced skill in the entire world, basically. I think it really matters for being a good worker, being a good manager, being a good leader, being a good person."

We still tend to treat the ability to work well with other people as something you either naturally have or you don’t. Or as a nice addition to the “real” skills required to do a job.

Yet, so many of the problems organizations are trying to solve come back to exactly these skills: people who don’t communicate well, managers who don’t know how to build trust or have hard conversations, good ideas that never make it across silos, employees who don’t feel heard or valued.

We spend a lot of money developing technical capability while assuming people will somehow figure out the human part on their own. They usually don’t.

The more sophisticated our tools become, the less sense it makes to keep underinvesting in the skills required to work well with the humans using them.

08/17/2026

Workplace gossip is easy to dismiss as petty behavior, but I think it points to something bigger: distraction.

We spend a remarkable amount of time talking about people who aren’t in the room and keeping track of workplace drama.
Meanwhile, the problem hasn’t changed and neither have we.

This week I wrote about gossip as an attention problem: what it costs us, what it keeps us from doing, and why the more important question may be what we’re choosing to build with the limited attention we have.

Read the article on Substack:

How gossip keeps us focused on everyone but ourselves

08/13/2026

I did my first webinar today and I was nervous.

I’m much more comfortable in a room where I can read people, change direction based on the energy, and make the whole thing feel like a conversation.

A screen is obviously different. But I did it.

We spent the hour talking about the idea that relationships are part of the infrastructure of work and that, just like any other infrastructure, they have to be built, maintained, and repaired.
We mapped the human infrastructure underneath real projects. We talked about where work gets stuck. And we looked at Relational Intelligence as a management capability, not just a “people skill.”

This is the work I do with teams: helping people strengthen both the interpersonal skills and the group dynamics that make it easier to work well together.

A big thank you to Alexis Gosik for inviting me and making my first virtual workshop such an easy one to step into, and to Technology Council of Pennsylvania for supporting the program.
First webinar: done. ☑️