Oct 8, 20163 minRole Models Impact Our Leadership Aspirations But Where Can We Find Them?Some people think that leaders are born, while others think that leaders are made. I think that the truth lies somewhere in between. Grow...
Jun 8, 20164 minTalking with Men About Women's LeadershipCredit: John Hope Photography From the beginning of this journey, it has been clear to me that if I wanted to affect change in how we per...
Apr 18, 20164 minHow to Disrupt the Gender Balance in Leadership - A Practical Framework for ActionChange starts from the top and must cascade to all other levels of the company. In the same way that profit generation isn’t outsourced t...
Mar 20, 20163 minWhen Bias Hits HomeAs a third-culture child who switched many zip codes (more about this here), I’ve gotten used to being a misunderstood outsider everywher...
Mar 20, 20161 minWomen Have Different On-The-Job Experiences Than MenThe Bain study about women's ambitions and confidence I previously wrote about found that women's experience in mid-career was different ...
Mar 20, 20163 minWomen's Ambition Erodes Mid-CareerOne of the push-backs I get when I talk about why we don't have more women leaders revolves around the belief that women aren't intereste...
Dec 8, 20152 minBook Review - How Remarkable Women Lead by Joanna BarshIn How Remarkable Women Lead, McKinsey & Co, partner, Joanna Barsh builds on years of interviews with women leaders across different coun...
Dec 8, 20151 minFraming the Need For Women's ContributionLast week, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that he's opening all combat job for women, because “We cannot afford to cut ourselves...
Dec 8, 20151 minNational Cultures Shape Management ApproachesManagement is an Anglo-Saxon concept, that had been developed for the masculine American and British Cultures. It actually means "handlin...
Dec 8, 20151 minInspirational Leader - Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and Co-Founder of EllevestSource: Fast Company I discovered Sallie Krawcheck on my quest for inspirational female leaders. She used to be a very senior executive o...
Dec 8, 20153 minCan We Create a More Balanced Leadership Approach that Embraces Both Feminine and Masculine Values?When I was working as a strategy manager at a mining company in Brazil, a colleague from the Human Resources department invited me to bec...
Nov 28, 20155 minWhere Can You Meet the Most Inspirational Women Leaders in the World?Miriam Grobman Consulting sat down with its French-Brazilian partner, Gwendoline de Ganay, to learn about her previous experience as a Co...
Nov 24, 20154 minFemale Managers. Friend or Foe?The Other Woman – The Power of Female Mentorship One of the most important instruments in cultivating successful female leaders is the me...
Nov 20, 20152 minAre Women Better Leaders Than Men?During my two years of MBA studies I learned about all the important qualities of a leader; he should be confident, brave, strategic, res...
Nov 13, 20154 minDo You Know Why Women Are Leaving Your Company?Company leaders, especially in high-paced industries, may have all sorts of assumptions about the reasons as to why women don’t progress ...
Nov 5, 20151 minAdvancing More Women into Leadership is a Business DecisionAs a business professional, I have always found it offensive when gender equality at work was treated as a guilt-motivated moral issue. I...
Nov 4, 20152 minResearch confirms the need for action on women's leadershipI previously wrote how, while working in a mining company in Brazil, I got inspired to engage in promoting women in leadership. When I ca...
Nov 4, 20154 minThe "Why" Behind Miriam Grobman ConsultingIn the famous TED Talk titled "How Great Leaders Inspire Action", Simon Sinek uses the metaphore of the Golden Circle to explain the impo...
Nov 4, 20151 minThe Leadership and Women NewsletterThis week I launched a newsletter dedicated to discussing the challenges and opportunities companies face in incorporating women into the...
