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Bringing Men into the Conversation About Women in Leadership
From the beginning of this journey, it has been clear to me that if I wanted to affect change in how we perceive women in leadership...
Mar 6, 20173 min read
Men, Women Confidence and Success
Photo credit: David Marcu One day I got an emergency call from a woman, let's call her Julia, who is a director in a pharmaceutical...
Feb 22, 20173 min read
Books About Pioneering Women: Golda Meir, Elizabeth Warren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Golda by Elinor Burkett The book tells Golda Meir's story from her childhood in the Ukraine and later Milwaukee to her ascent to...
Dec 19, 20163 min read
Golda Meir - A Prime Minister and Pioneer. Her Views on Motherhood.
Golda Meir, 1898-1978, former prime minister of Israel was the first female head of state in the western world.⠀ ⠀ She lived a life...
Dec 7, 20162 min read
The Five Things Career Women Want But Don't Necessarily Get
Some time ago I went for lunch with an entrepreneur friend I greatly admire. We hadn't seen each other for a while, and she had some...
Dec 7, 20163 min read
How We Can Continue Advancing Diversity in the Workplace in the Trump Era
On November 8th, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. It was more of a disappointment than a surprise to me. I...
Nov 21, 20163 min read
Case Study: ThoughtWorks Takes Action on Diverse Hiring
While many companies love talking about diversity and creating diversity programs, ThoughtWorks, a global tech consulting firm...
Nov 16, 20161 min read
The Paradox of Meritocracy
I once went to a diversity event organized by a progressive Austin tech company. The panel represented all case study categories of...
Oct 26, 20163 min read
Role 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....
Oct 8, 20163 min read
Talking with Men About Women's Leadership
Credit: 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...
Jun 7, 20164 min read
How to Disrupt the Gender Balance in Leadership - A Practical Framework for Action
Change starts from the top and must cascade to all other levels of the company. In the same way that profit generation isn’t outsourced...
Apr 18, 20164 min read
When Bias Hits Home
As a third-culture child who switched many zip codes (more about this here), I’ve gotten used to being a misunderstood outsider...
Mar 20, 20163 min read
A Little Gender Trivia - Women's Brains
#ConfidenceGap #Multitasking
Mar 20, 20161 min read
Women Have Different On-The-Job Experiences Than Men
The Bain study about women's ambitions and confidence I previously wrote about found that women's experience in mid-career was different...
Mar 20, 20161 min read
Women's Ambition Erodes Mid-Career
One 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...
Mar 20, 20163 min read
Book Review - How Remarkable Women Lead by Joanna Barsh
In How Remarkable Women Lead, McKinsey & Co, partner, Joanna Barsh builds on years of interviews with women leaders across different...
Dec 8, 20152 min read
Framing the Need For Women's Contribution
Last 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 min read
National Cultures Shape Management Approaches
Management is an Anglo-Saxon concept, that had been developed for the masculine American and British Cultures. It actually means...
Dec 7, 20151 min read
Inspirational Leader - Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest
Source: Fast Company I discovered Sallie Krawcheck on my quest for inspirational female leaders. She used to be a very senior executive...
Dec 7, 20151 min read
Can 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...
Dec 7, 20153 min read
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