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August 30: InPower Coffee Break: Shannon Muruli discusses overcoming your fears
Coffee break starts: 1pm ET / 10am PTDuration: 30 minutes Stay current with our podcast on iTunes. Does fear paralyze you from achieving your goals? Does it stop you in your tracks and make you reconsider what you are doing? This is especially true for women who are...
Work-Life Paradox: Conscious, But Not Happy
Over the past few months I’ve been hearing from clients and friends who struggle with a vague sense of dissatisfaction in their lives and careers. In most cases it’s not too tough to ferret out the source of work-life dissatisfaction; we scan our lives and find that...
Giving and Getting: Find Community To Share Your Entrepreneur Story
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair The life of an entrepreneur can be thrilling. The rush of a big partnership or client win....
August 16: Mary Schaefer discusses setting a career intention for the next year
We all sometimes get stuck in our careers - get a little complacent, sometimes stuck, sometimes we just don't see a different way to get what we want. Or from a different perspective, we simply forget what we want. For this discussion, Mary Schaefer will be joining us...
How to Turn Stress into a Healthy Resource
Stress can be a powerful and healthy resource. Yes, you heard me correctly – a resource. But wait, stress is bad, stress causes health problems, we all should try to diminish the stress in our daily lives… right? Not exactly. Sure, chronic stress can absolutely be...
Lessons from a Power Breakfast – What’s at STAKE?
To everyone but us, we were a power breakfast. Meeting early at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington DC, we were strategists behind an international organization representing 160 of the biggest companies and Non Governmental Organization (NGO) nonprofits in the...
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Career Advice
Forget the Glass Ceiling. Look for the Sweet Spot
It is a well known fact in human psychology. We only see what we believe. I was speaking a few years ago on a panel of C-suite women about how to achieve career success. One woman in the audience asked: “How did each of you shatter the glass ceiling?”. Every single...
Five Steps To Ask For What You Want – Powerfully
“Women Don’t Ask”. Ask for what you want - it’s the topic of a book and it’s often an unfortunate reality that keeps many of us from reaching our goals. In my executive coaching work, some of my clients very clearly realize that this is an issue. They know that...
Put Your Stress Into Words
Three years ago I began my master's degree in positive psychology. My classmates and I, new to each other, were waiting for our first class to start. Everyone was a little anxious because one of us was about to be called on to tell their "You at Your Best" story about...
Women in Leadership
Stuck at 15%: Are Women Doomed to Second Place?
Some athletes are simply not destined to get the gold. Women have a record-breaking presence in the Olympics this year - every nation sporting women on their teams for the first time in history and more women than men on the U.S. team. But when I look at the...
The Dark Side of Confidence in Women
In the past, confidence, assertiveness, and being decisive were not typically female qualities. These traits are becoming more the norm with women, which is a good thing as it helps women to realize their potential. On the other hand, there can be too much of a good...
We Need Women in Business Leadership NOW
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article in the Atlantic, Why Women Can’t Have it All, has reignited crucial issues of advancement and balance that women continue to face in the workplace. As a male executive in business for over forty years, I have worked with many women who...
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