Sheryle Gillihan

Chief Executive Officer

Sheryle joined CauseLabs in 2010 and has grown with the company as a leader, strategist, and cultural ambassador. Growing up with her own poverty story, she has found her purpose in creating social impact. She fuses her hope for a better, brighter future with over 15 years of leadership, operations and technical management experience. Ranging from military to corporate to nonprofit sectors, she brings immense, diversified perspective and excellent coordination. Sheryle has served as a Girl Scout leader for 10 years, sits on several advisory boards, and empowers and equips leaders and project managers around the world on the successful rapid problem solving process she has pioneered with the team at CauseLabs.

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Sustainable Business Practices

A Blueprint for Growing with Sustainable Business Practices Sustainability is not just a trendy buzzword, it’s crucial. Companies that don’t start acknowledging and living out sustainable business practices will get left behind in the future. It takes more than recycling and using less paper. You have to take action and put your money where your …

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Time Management with CauseLabs’ Sheryle Gillihan

Time management is an essential skill, and it’s especially vital in a fast-paced environment like CauseLabs. And over the years, I’ve developed a system that helps me focus on what matters most, prioritize effectively, and ensure I’m always aligned with our mission.

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SEO Guide: How to Easily Check Your Website’s Backlinks

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a crucial aspect of digital marketing. One of the key components of SEO is building and maintaining high-quality backlinks. If you’re wondering how to check your business domain’s backlinks and SEO score, you’re in the right place.

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Use AI to Write Content for Your Website

In 2015 a World Economic Forum report stated, “Technology is transforming the world.” At the time, there were many news stories on its negative influences. After reading that report, our team was all in, vowing to use technology as a force for good. Technology advances rapidly and continues to transform the world. It was over …

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Your Website: A Digital Home Worth Protecting

It was the summer of 2001 when I took my first leap into the digital landscape. Swept up in a whirlwind of HTML and CSS coding, I painstakingly crafted my first website – a humble digital abode where I shared my thoughts and expressed my passions. This personal endeavor was my initiation into the realities …

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4 Crucial Methods Small Businesses Can Use to Evaluate Website Performance

As a business owner, I sometimes forget about my website and website performance. It is crucial to my business, but if it’s not in crisis, then it’s not top of mind. And I’m a website agency owner! But that’s just it; as an owner, I have a lot of other things on my plate. That’s …

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Why CauseLabs Chooses WordPress

Choosing a content management system (CMS) like WordPress or Squarespace for your website often comes down to what has been presented, the brand you recognize, your ability to afford the ongoing costs, and how quickly you get your website up and running. As time goes on, you or your team may question the decision when …

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Values-Based Giving: A Holiday Gift Guide

We’re quickly approaching the holiday season, and around the world, people are planning gatherings and gift givings. On average, people spend about $1,000 on winter holiday purchases each year. Values-based giving allows you to give some of that money back to a non-profit or other worthwhile organization with your holiday gifting.  What is Values-Based Giving? …

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Leadership, Perspective & Building a Fire.

After attending Opportunity Collaboration, I always return home with new friends, new stories, and things to continue pondering. Like some of my other posts, this is more personal and focused on leadership lessons. Some of the stories are alarming, and at this year’s conference, I was reminded again of how privileged I am to have …

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CauseLabs Names First Managing Director

TEXAS — Sometimes, as a business owner, you just know when you find the right employee. That’s what happened when CauseLabs hired Rebecca Colgate. Fast forward through nearly a decade of growth and change, and CauseLabs is thrilled to announce Colgate as its first managing director. “I don’t know if CauseLabs would have survived without …

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Earning Climate Neutral Certification

You can help your company reflect the sustainability you want to see for the environment. A fundamental way to do this is to lead your company to receive climate neutral certification. Not sure what it means to be climate neutral, let alone what climate neutral certification is? Don’t worry. CauseLabs received climate neutral certification in …

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Leadership for a Global Crisis: What I’ve learned and how I feel

The United Nations Global Compact is holding special Academy Sessions centered around #UnitingBusiness. You can view the previous sessions and register for the future ones here. Below are my reflections from the first Academy Session: New Leadership for a Global Crisis. It Starts with an Opportunity Our normal social constructs have disappeared and our day …

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