This year I set a 40-book reading challenge for myself. COVID-19 times certainly helped with freeing time for reading and I have some gre...

Key considerations when you are trying to interview and hire top players.

Four factors that lend themselves to enhancing grit: interest, practice, purpose, and hope.

Bibiana Rojas shares the story of her transition from pursuing a traditional career path to building and selling a cannabis company

Laura had had a stellar career in a Brazilian financial services company. Until she reached her thirties and got married..

The gender pay gap is a complex economic issue that has become an even more complex political issue. 5 graphs to help you makes sense.

Rachel, a seasoned executive in the natural resources industry, got promoted to an important role in her company, one of the very few women

Unconscious bias training is not the silver bullet for fixing diversity problems. Here's why.

The topic of gender diversity is no longer new on most companies' agendas and many employees and mangers are starting to suffer from dive...

This week I read a book called Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth by John Doerr and initially, as I was r...

My academic years presented a clear formula for measuring merit: everyone got the same assignments or tests and the final grade depended ...

In the Influence Masterclass I teach that there are different ways to influence, depending on your audience, the context of the interacti...

When I conduct surveys within companies, I often ask employees (both men and women) to answer what is the key reason for women not reachi...

"Annie" worked in the technology department of a top investment bank ABC in New York City. She questioned me about the need to discuss wo...

I recently visited a potential client at a privately owned, midsize financial services firm. It has been around for many years and has a ...

I have previously written about why women don't negotiate their salaries or other items that could help their career growth and about the...

A startup CEO reached out to me. He already had a team of around 100 employees and was going to double his company's size in upcoming mon...

Uber has often been in the news lately, most recently with the ousting of its infamous CEO, Travis Kalanick. The picture that emerged fro...

Many companies fail to achieve progress not because of shortage of diversity programs but rather the lack of interest and commitment from...

The current discussion about the gender pay gap often remains in the title: "Women make 20% of what men make," and each side tries to arg...