Most Recent Posts
October 2025 Leadership Development Carnival
It’s time for another installment of the Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to Weaving Influence and the Lead Change for organizing some great posts from some remarkable leadership writers. If you're new to blog Carnivals, these represent a collection of...
The Mute Button on Your Ego: How Active Listening Builds Respect
The Underrated Leadership Skill: How Active Listening Builds Respect and Power Active listening skills are a communication hack for all kinds of professional and personal situations. It is one of the most effective skills a leader can develop to improve their...
Every Leadership Vision is a Change Management Vision
Key Takeaways for Leaders Vision isn't a prediction, it's a direction: Stop trying to predict the future. Instead, use your leadership vision to intentionally guide your team away from the status quo and towards a better, shared future. It's about aligning everyone...
Employee Engagement Hack: Why Empowerment is More Than a Buzzword
Employee empowerment is a powerful strategy for cutting to the core of the challenges associated with employee engagement, particularly employee retention and development. Want to achieve organizational effectiveness and foster a thriving workplace? Learn to empower...
Managing a Polarized Workforce Without Abandoning Your Principles
Key Takeaways Successfully managing a polarized workforce–including deciding whether to take public stances–requires a crucial mindset shift: move away from trying to align personal beliefs and instead focus on aligning teams around shared professional objectives and...
Why Crazy Attracts Crazy
Key Takeaways: Life tends to magnetize the energy we emit, so if your mind is spinning in “crazy” territory—frenzied, anxious, or chaotic—you can expect more of the same to show up in your life. Reality-TV drama teaches us something real: drama is not a natural...
Popular Posts
How to Prepare for a Performance Review or Job Interview
One thing I love most about the InPower Community and other forums where I take part as an expert is answering people's questions. One of the most popular topics on people's minds is how to prepare for a performance review, followed closely by queries about how to...
Want An Executive Job? 4 Tricks To Get Out Of The Weeds
In a previous post about job interview tips, I outlined the findings of several research studies about advancing your career – especially for professional women in leadership who want to land a C-suite executive job. The research basically pointed up the...
10 Biggest LinkedIn Mistakes Most of Us Make
Do you ever wonder what the "best practices" are for LinkedIn, whether you're looking for a job or not? Check out this wonderful post by Henna on common LinkedIn mistakes most of us make for some good advice. We've already done a little LinkedIn profile update after...
Leadership
The Mute Button on Your Ego: How Active Listening Builds Respect
The Underrated Leadership Skill: How Active Listening Builds Respect and Power Active listening skills are a communication hack for all kinds of professional and personal situations. It is one of the most effective skills a leader can develop to improve their...
Every Leadership Vision is a Change Management Vision
Key Takeaways for Leaders Vision isn't a prediction, it's a direction: Stop trying to predict the future. Instead, use your leadership vision to intentionally guide your team away from the status quo and towards a better, shared future. It's about aligning everyone...
Employee Engagement Hack: Why Empowerment is More Than a Buzzword
Employee empowerment is a powerful strategy for cutting to the core of the challenges associated with employee engagement, particularly employee retention and development. Want to achieve organizational effectiveness and foster a thriving workplace? Learn to empower...
Mentoring
Sponsor vs. Mentor – 3 Tips for Attracting a Sponsor
Is “Executive Sponsor” is the New “Mentor” for Women Leaders? The missing piece in women's advancement strategies into leadership? Mentorship helps us be effective, but it’s not as helpful at helping us get a job as sponsorship is. Dana takes a look at what is means...
Building Successful Mentorship Programs: What You Need to Know
Mentorship is an important part of any leadership development program. But should you formalize something that is often most powerful in its informal state? Having participated in and supported many different styles of mentorship program over the course of my career I...
Why Mentorship Isn’t Enough To Help Women Get into Leadership
We hear a lot about how, in addition to mentors and mentorship, women need assistance to get into leadership. They need sponsors to help make it into the executive ranks. But how do you learn what a sponsor wants? Dana turns it around and invites you to start...
Interviews
Servant Leadership for Women and Other Historically Under-represented Leaders
Podcast/Audio There is no question that servant leadership for women and other historically under-represented leaders is an effective way to manage teams and organizations. Servant leaders achieve results, not by using their own positional power (e.g., telling people...
Career Advice
Work-Life Balance: Return to Work While the Going’s Good
Key Takeaways: work‑life balance is a strategic choice—not a luxury. Keeping even a small job while caregiving (for children or aging parents) ensures financial stability and continuity. Opting out of work for caregiving without planning can cost you dearly—those who...
10 Mindsets That Undercut Happiness
Key Takeaways: happiness begins in your mind—many of the beliefs you hold actually undercut your joy before life even strikes; shifting these mindsets is where real change starts. Fixed mindsets lead you to avoid challenges and see failure as proof of limitations,...
How To Stop Negative Self Talk
When's the last time you tuned into the self talk running in the background of your thoughts? The one that's telling you that you're great - or not? It can feel like an impossible thing to try to reprogram that voice, but you can and unless you're constantly telling...
Women in Leadership
Women’s Equality: Blame Won’t Get Us There
Key Takeaways: Equality can’t thrive in a culture of blame; shifting from fault-finding to shared responsibility creates space for growth and understanding. Equality is more complex than just fixing individual bias—it lives in the intersection of beliefs, systems,...
Working Mother Advice: Back-to-School Tips & Tricks – Part 2
Key Takeaways: Working mother A relaxed “back‑to‑school meeting” with your kids a week or two before classes begin helps ease everyone into a new schedule—discussing bedtime shifts, lunch‑packing preferences, and new routines so the transition feels intentional, not...
How Not To Fall Victim To “The Motherhood Penalty”
Key Takeaways: Motherhood penalty is a real systemic roadblock, not just a personal experience—it’s built into hiring, pay, promotion, and performance norms that mistakenly assume moms are less committed or competent. Mothers typically face a per‑child wage reduction...
Diversity & Inclusion
The Elephant in the Gender Equality Room: Masculinity
Key Takeaways: Gender equality cannot be achieved without challenging masculinity: Expanding definitions of masculinity—moving beyond rigid traits like dominance or stoicism—is essential for progress. Narrow, culturally enforced ideals of masculinity limit both men...
The Top 6 Reasons Women Are Not Leading In Corporate America As We Need Them To
Key Takeaways: Corporate America is still falling short on gender parity at the top, and it’s time to ask the hard questions. Despite all the well-funded diversity programs and the clear business case for inclusion, too many companies still don’t know why women are...
Iron Man vs. Athena for CEO – Leadership Battle of the Sexes?
Key Takeaways: The Battle of the Sexes in Leadership: Traditional leadership models often favor masculine traits, but modern perspectives recognize the value of integrating both masculine and feminine qualities for effective leadership. Desirable Leadership Traits:...
