It’s easy to get paranoid thinking that the people who can be helping your career are watching you 24x7, and it’s easy to become exhausted trying to impress everyone all the time. But the fact is that you are always surrounded by people how can help you. How can you shine all the time without...
Dana Theus
Do Hard: How Personal Challenges Can Accelerate Your Career
We have opportunities to push ourselves all the time in life. What do you do with those opportunities? Do you grab them and go for it or hang back and wait for something easier? Dana comes clean on her lifelong patterns and steps up to new ways to Do Hard, which is one of the strategies she gives...
How to Attract an Executive Career Sponsor
Research continues to show us that mentorship is not enough to help women get into senior executive leadership in significant percentages. What the research says is that in addition to cultivating mentors to help them “learn the ropes,” the folks that leapfrog their peers into the executive ranks...
Being Bold at Work
We often give advice to leaders, “Be bold!” Why? Here are the typical reasons for being bold that I hear: You’ll get noticed You’ll move faster forward (failing and succeeding both) You’ll get outside the box All good reasons! But here’s why I want you to be bold: you’ll develop the habit of...
Jumping The Corporate Ship? 3 Self-Employed Survival Tips
There are plenty of the Debbie Downers who look at the exodus of women from the corporate ranks and see bad news. If your priority is getting women in to socially, politically and economically powerful positions, this IS bad news. But what if you just want to have a life? Be happy? Be...
11 Ways Women (& Men!) Are Changing Work-Life Values
Women are leading a quiet revolution in the workplace and Dana used her debut post for the Huffington Post Business section to detail how we're doing it. The work-life values of the future workforce don't look like the values of the past. How do you live these values in your career? - InPower...
Part 2 of the Values Schism: Corporate America Needs To Get Real
In my last post about how there is a growing schism between the values held by employees and those held by their employers, and how it’s driving employees out the door. I noted that 54% of millenials are planning on leaving their firms to try entrepreneurship. This is a big number, but even that...
The Values Schism And How It’s Draining The Brains From Corporate America
Something insidious is happening in the cubicles and hallways of America’s big and midsized companies. Employees who have attained a chunk of the America dream — a steady paycheck, benefits and a rung on the upwardly mobile ladder — are risking an uncertain job market and quitting their jobs in...
Feel Good Self-Promotion
Do you hate networking? Meeting strangers and having to promote yourself – or your business – from scratch? Join the club! Dana is something of an expert in helping us learn authentic personal promotion techniques. Her secret? Authentic strategies that don’t feel like self-promotion! – InPower...
What More Can YOU Do? [Announcing Sheryl Sandberg on InPower Women]
We are thrilled to announce that InPower Women partnered with TaketheLead.com to host a keynote speech by Sheryl Sandberg - right here on InPowerWomen.com! Sheryl was joined by other heavy hitters in the women's empowerment movement. Together they discussed the challenges we face, and the...