The holidays are upon us and this means - increased stress! We all "know" that when things get busy we need to be gentle with ourselves and that one of our best strategies is to say "No" more often, and preserve more of energy for the highest priorities. We know it but we often don't do it. I want...
Dana Theus
INSPIRATION: Success Is Messy
Life is an art and a science. Expect it to be messy. Own the mess and the process and life becomes beautiful and amazingly powerful. When they told you to color in between the lines, “they” did you a great disservice. “They” were wrong - Messy is good Creating something valuable is a messy...
Reframing the Quest to “Have it All” – The Case for Worklife Equity
How did we get here? Who’s silly idea was it to “have it all?” in the first place? My mother’s generation didn’t “have it all” – or even half. Married women in my mother’s and grandmother’s generation were locked in the domestic ivory tower as queens of their homefronts, but powerless in...
Replacing Tropes for Mentoring Women with the Truths They Deserve
Mentoring Women Key Takeaways: Mentorship Must Evolve: Traditional mentoring advice often perpetuates outdated gender tropes that hinder women's leadership potential. Mentors need to update their guidance to reflect current workplace realities. Unconscious Bias is Pervasive: Mentors can...
Do Men and Women Vision Future Success Differently?
One of the joys of my career has always been helping individuals and groups develop compelling, meaningful and guiding visions – the kind of visions that pull them excitedly into their future success. Most of the corporate visioning work I’ve done with executive teams has not included many women....
Why is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) so hard? Part II
In our InPower Women Mastermind community the subjects of discrimination, bias, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) come up pretty often in conversation. These discussions are stimulated by personal experience and requests for advice as well as a shared commitment the women in our group have for...
2022 Leadership Development Carnival
We're so excited to be sharing this rich post full of great ideas this month. We've participated in the leadership development carnival for years and always find it full of good stuff to read and share. Communication The Power of Storytelling From Confucius to Mohammed, from Martin Luther King to...
Newest Research on Women in Leadership (Sept. ’22)
I’ve been tracking research on women in leadership for over a decade now. It started when I first began coaching and wanted to get smart on leadership in general. I kept coming across intriguing articles on the good impacts women had on organizations when they were in leadership positions. The...
Imposter Syndrome & Office Housework [Video Interview]
https://youtu.be/ekQuSIyUVzc I was so happy to reconnect with my friend Carolyn Bruna on her MMC show "It's a Woman's World" to discuss some of the challenges professional women face in the workplace, including the office housewife, the imposter syndrome and setting boundaries. "InPower Women" on...
Why Is It So Hard? Moving Beyond Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 101
I feel like we’ve been in “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 101” class for decades now. Starting more than 30 years ago organizations first funded the “D” (diversity). Then when those programs didn’t diversify workforces enough, they added the “I” (inclusion) and more recently the “E” (equity) to...








