As you move up the ranks, the ability to speak in public and influence a bigger and more diverse set of individuals will become more crit...

Do you know this feeling when you have spent months (or years) working on something and you are really the subject matter expert and then...

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...

As the year is coming to its end, I have been reflecting about my favorite nonfiction professional books. The truth though is that my fav...

When I was little, I was a huge bookworm. Every week, my grandma would to take me to our neighborhood's library and by the time I reached...

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...

One of my over-achiever students, "Belinda" worked in a commercial real estate company and even those it was her first year in this role,...

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...

Go ahead and google the words "successful CEO." You will find many images of suited caucasian men in confident, extraverted poses. Indeed...

In a formal meeting with 15 senior women at a boardroom of a big multinational company, I took some mental notes executive presence ('EP'...

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 recently wrote about Why Women Don't Ask and What They Don't Ask For at work. I got some positive comments but also some frustrated one...

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

On my recent trip to Phoenix I caught up with a former Wharton MBA classmate. He had forwarded my post about women’s mental barriers to n...

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...

You may be starting a new job or moving to a new role within your company. The first 90 days are critical for building your credibility w...

“Women MBA graduates make on average 6% less than their male counterparts in their first post-MBA job. Why? Because they don’t negotiate....