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Live Your Own Fairy Tale by Negotiating Your Own Value
Key Takeaways: fairy tale isn’t just fantasy—it’s your own value story: The author encourages women to view the negotiation process like crafting their own fairy tale, reclaiming narrative control by defining and asserting what they’re truly worth. Negotiation goes...
Do You Suffer From “Sorry-itis?”
Key Takeaways: sorry can become a self-sabotage habit: The author shows how women often apologize reflexively—even when no harm was done—and how this "sorry‑itis" gradually teaches others to see us as less capable or confident. Owning your space means choosing...
Book Review: Spiraling Upward, the 5 Co-Creative Powers for Women on the Rise – How It Is Helping Me Restart My Business
Key Takeaways: Book review reflections reveal how Spiraling Upward opens deep inner pathways: The author describes how Wendy Wallbridge’s work helped restart her business by nurturing belief, energy, and authentic direction—showing that success begins with...
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...
Mindfulness at Work: The Secret to Productivity and Reduced Stress
Key Takeaways: Productivity skyrockets when mindfulness becomes a habit: Embedding simple moments of awareness throughout the day—such as focused breathing or pausing before checking email—sharpens concentration, helping you stay present and deeply engaged in tasks....
7 Factors To Get Sponsored To The Top
Key Takeaways: Sponsored connections are earned, not just given: High-potential individuals must be proactive—actively pursue and nurture relationships, choose environments that value sponsorship, and demonstrate initiative to be seen and supported. Sponsored...
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Leadership
The Dirty Little Secret About Employee Engagement
Key Takeaways: Employee Engagement Requires Two-Way Communication: True employee engagement is not just about top-down directives; it thrives on authentic, two-way conversations between managers and employees. Policies Should Facilitate Personalized Work Approaches:...
Executive Mindset: Advice for Women Leaders to Navigate the Glass Ceiling
Key Takeaways: Executive Mindset as a Leadership Foundation: Developing an executive mindset is crucial for women aiming to break the glass ceiling. It involves thinking strategically, managing both the business and its people, and demonstrating judgment and influence...
How Emotional Intelligence in Leadership is a Strength, Not a Weakness
Key Takeaways: Emotional intelligence isn’t a trait you either have or don’t—it’s something you can lose and reclaim. For me, rediscovering it after burnout completely changed my leadership, motherhood, and happiness. Self-awareness is the first step toward...
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Career Advice
How to be Feminine, Ambitious and Successful: Navigating the Gender Gap in Workplace Ambition
A common theme among the women I coach–at all levels–is a clear awareness of the gender gap in workplace ambition and confusion about how to navigate it. Key Takeaways Understanding Gendered Ambition Norms: Many women feel pressured to choose between achievement and...
What’s Your Dream Job and How Can Knowing it Light Up Your Soul?
Let’s face it: work is work. Even the best dream job turns into a daily grind eventually. And what if you’re in a job search? Looking for a job is work, too! What can make work less work? Hint: know the answer to the question “What’s your dream job?” Wait....
The Cost of Analysis Paralysis
Most of the time when I tell people that I am researching women and business, the conversation wanders into what I now think of as “the analysis paralysis” conundrum in which we try to suss out the why’s of women’s place in society. Here are common themes that come...
Women in Leadership
Executive Mindset: Advice for Women Leaders to Navigate the Glass Ceiling
Key Takeaways: Executive Mindset as a Leadership Foundation: Developing an executive mindset is crucial for women aiming to break the glass ceiling. It involves thinking strategically, managing both the business and its people, and demonstrating judgment and influence...
6 Steps to Authentic Self Confidence for Women
Key Takeaways: Understanding Confidence: Confidence isn't about perfection; it's about knowing what to expect and how to handle it. Building confidence involves learning from experiences and practicing responses until you find what works. Identifying Areas for Growth:...
How Emotional Intelligence in Leadership is a Strength, Not a Weakness
Key Takeaways: Emotional intelligence isn’t a trait you either have or don’t—it’s something you can lose and reclaim. For me, rediscovering it after burnout completely changed my leadership, motherhood, and happiness. Self-awareness is the first step toward...
Diversity & Inclusion
Unintended Consequences Matter: Learning to See Bystanderism and Microaggression as Contributors to Employee Turnover in the Workplace
Efforts to increase diversity in our workplaces has been dismally slow over the last few decades, despite business initiatives, research and even expansions of the very definition of diversity. Like many, I find this frustrating. I find it especially frustrating that...
The Game Is Rigged: Strategies for Overcoming Unconscious Bias
When it comes to unconscious bias, the bad news is that the game is rigged–against women, people of color, introverts and others that don’t fit a certain “success” stereotype that is often male, white and extroverted. But the good news is, it’s not really a game so...
Leadership Perspective: Are Traditional Measures of Workforce Diversity Outdated?
Despite being the #1 recruiting trend for 2018 for businesses, and despite decades of trying to improve workforce diversity demographics in the workplace, the commercial sector has made little progress. I believe this supports the theory that homogeneous workplaces...
