Marge Axelrad, Sr. VP/Editorial Director
Marge oversees the overall editorial direction of
Vision Monday and its print publication,
VMAIL, e-newsletters,
VisionMonday.com and special events including the
VM Global Leadership Summit.
She is also in charge of general corporate and company news, industry developments and business trends,
financial news. Marge specializes in frame sunwear companies, practice management programs,
spectacle lens and contact lens companies, managed care, wholesale laboratories, and research.
She is also the editor of
CLICK, a twice-a-month e-newsletter. Contact Marge at
maxelrad@jobson.com.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, March 3, 2024 2:07 AM
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.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, November 26, 2023 2:00 AM
DE&I isn’t ever ‘over.’ It’s a consistent, constant effort to recognize, learn, dialog, partner and devise ways to address issues that impact employees, colleagues, patients and customers on behalf of your business, office, organization. The immense challenge of DE&I is that those who are committed to it find that they consistently need to push it to the front of the priorities facing company leaders, managers and teams. Keeping DE&I top of mind and a top priority is critical.
By Marge Axelrad
Monday, October 30, 2023 2:00 AM
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.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, September 3, 2023 2:00 AM
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.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, July 23, 2023 2:02 AM
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.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, June 18, 2023 2:00 AM
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.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, February 6, 2022 4:00 AM
After the two years we’ve all been through, you might think that relationships should no longer be taken for granted, right? It might be that living and working through a pandemic and everything related to that would elevate the importance of those connections.
By Marge Axelrad
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 1:16 AM
Here at
VM, we’re big believers that tracking news developments of the day point the way to identifying trends that are shaping business tomorrow. We pride ourselves on cultivating the relationships and sources to deliver the authoritative “word” but also help identify signposts that can shape business decisions for the “next” normal.
By Marge Axelrad
Monday, October 25, 2021 2:02 AM
One of the many lessons that a lot of folks are realizing about the pandemic of the past nearly-two years is that things change constantly and nothing really stays the same. I mean, values, needs and ethics usually do stay the same, but getting to those things, how products and services that reflect those don’t ever stay the same.
By Marge Axelrad
Monday, August 2, 2021 12:00 AM
It happens every year. When
Vision Monday solicits nominations for women across all sectors of the eyecare and eyewear fields to be considered for recognition in our “Most Influential Women in Optical” feature, our
VM editorial team will tell you that three things occur.
By Marge Axelrad
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 1:01 AM
There are many lenses with which to examine The Year That Was 2020. VM’s signature Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report is just one of those. But the optics within our 2021 report reflect many stories about what happened among the bigger players and point to several future trends. How you react to them depends on your vantage point.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, April 25, 2021 8:10 AM
I wish it didn’t take a pandemic for this to be true, but consumers and patients have embraced a new appreciation for all things “modern.” What is “modern” exactly? Well, characteristics would include descriptions such as “new,” “contemporary,” “recent,” “up to the minute,” “innovative” or “technology oriented.”