Writing | miriamgrobman

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...

Female Role Models

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...

Female Role Models

Dec 6, 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...

Strategy and Organizational Culture

Dec 6, 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...

Strategy and Organizational Culture

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...

Strategy and Organizational Culture

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...

Unconscious Bias

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....

Female Role Models

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...

Strategy and Organizational Culture

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...

Strategy and Organizational Culture

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...

Unconscious Bias

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 7, 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...

Female Role Models

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

Where 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...

Female Role Models

Nov 27, 20155 min read

Female 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...

Nov 23, 20154 min read