Marge Axelrad

Mar 20, 2024 | visionmonday.com | Marge Axelrad

I’m not a good Goodbye Girl. Not especially great at making an exit, leaving, or letting go. But the last few months have been a different sort of transition for me, professionally and personally, too. This feels more like moving forward, heading toward something that will enable me to develop other perspectives, and make time for new ideas and experiences from a different place. This is my last official column at Vision Monday and Jobson.

Jan 3, 2024 | visionmonday.com | Marge Axelrad

I think it needs to be said that business by the end of 2022, for pretty much everyone, was challenging. It was not one of those years where people sailed through the second half easily, calculating just how well they’d meet or exceed rosy projections. Inflation reared its head by the second half, people started talked about the costs of daily living going up, the Fed and the ‘R’ word (they’re still talking about the ‘R’ word, ‘recession’).

Jan 2, 2024 | visionmonday.com | Marge Axelrad

Twenty-one years. More than 750 women. From thousands of submissions received by its readers in that span of time, Vision Monday’s editors have been making very tough choices to identify and share the stories of just some of the women across the eyewear and eyecare field making a difference, creating impact, changing the game and influencing others in the work that they do. Yes, a few women have appeared as a VM Most Influential Woman more than once—in some cases, their roles or companies changed.

Dec 28, 2023 | visionmonday.com | Marge Axelrad

It’s September and, for many folks, it’s when the year ‘begins’ again. Summer breaks are over, people get back to school, back to business, back to forecasting for the year-end and the next years ahead. On the one hand it seems that this year flew, one of the fastest-feeling ever, perhaps because of the swift pace of monumental events—environmental, cultural, political, economic and inflation-crunched.

Dec 27, 2023 | visionmonday.com | Marge Axelrad

Modern technologies, combined with new societal attitudes towards inclusion and access to care, are helping to advance the scope of products and services for those who are vision-impaired. For those in the eyecare field and optical industry, looking to elevate the understanding and value of healthy vision to a wider audience, this is an emerging trend which is great news.