I saw a clip on ESPN of a high school section championship baseball game in New York state that unintentionally taught a pretty tough lesson. After a strikeout and thinking their team just notched a win, the catcher heads to the mound to celebrate. But in a lesser-known rule of baseball, if the catcher drops a third strike, the batter is allowed to run and must be thrown out at first base. In his eagerness [...]

You can’t cling to the past if you want to create the future. We are entering a new beginning at Starkey – one more dedicated to the patient than ever, but one also committed to pushing the edge of what’s possible; what’s possible with technology, what’s possible with people and what’s possible when the best of those two things unite. That is when innovative, caring technology is born. Welcome to the generation of Genesis AI. [...]

At the beginning of 2020, I said this would be the hearing industry’s greatest decade. As we close the book on 2022, I stand behind that statement now more than ever. Hot Take | Hearing Health Everyone is talking about hearing aids. In 2022, the President of the United States made hearing health a top topic. President Biden talked and Tweeted about the importance of hearing health and access on more than one occasion. Not [...]

At 83%, the hearing aid satisfaction rate is the highest it has ever been. As the president and CEO of a hearing aid manufacturer, I’m not touting that fact to brag. While reaching an important milestone like this is something to note for our industry, we still have work left to do. In the Drawer Hearing Aids When I started working at Starkey nearly 30 years ago, I remember having to learn this industry’s jargon [...]