“Bring a man with you.”
WE Design Think Founder and Chief Design Facilitator Karen Gordon asked each participant in the Chicago event of #50Action50 to bring a male colleague, friend, student, son, father or partner to the day of workshops, panels and networking.
Read MoreEvery May, Mother’s Day reminds us that as women leaders we all at some point are daughters or granddaughters or we ourselves are mothers and grandmothers. And for the best outcomes, we need to incorporate our full selves into our work lives.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that the tech industry is disproportionately male. In 2014, just 18 percent of Bachelor degrees in Computer Science were given to women, down from a high of 37 percent in 1984.
Read More“You like me, you really, really like me,” Sally Fields oozed with euphoria in her 1984 Oscars acceptance speech for best actress for her role in “Places in the Heart.”
Read MoreAn editor at a newspaper where I worked more than three decades ago asked me if I had sex over the weekend as I stood waiting at the newsroom copier.
Read MoreIf you are like me, you have likely been chastised that as a woman in business, you cannot allow your private life to leak into your professional life. Keep your relationship business to yourself. Stay quiet on the home front. The fun front. The hobby front. The relationship front. The complications front.
Read MoreThere was the rise of the bro-palace open office space sparked by Silicon Valley with ping pong tables, video games and kegs of beer in the office lunchroom. Many women who worked in those spaces wondered when it would be time to flip the switch and honor the preferences of some of the women who might reside there. Most just went along with the male-heavy ride.
Read MoreAccording to the Oxford Dictionary, a stereotype is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” The example given is “the stereotype of the woman as the caretaker.”
Read MoreIn the era of fake news, denials of facts in the face of evidence, and a culture comfortably morphing from the acceptance of truthiness to outright lies, how do you create a workplace of honesty and transparency?
Read MoreDoing the right thing can be the same as doing the smart thing. And culture shifts can happen; top tech companies are proving it.
Known for its raunchy, sexist television commercials as recently as mid-2016, Go Daddy has changed its ways and is throwing its energy into gender parity.
Read MoreCompanies spend big money on gender diversity and inclusion training. There’s a good reason for that: attracting and retaining high-caliber female talent all the way up to the top leadership ranks comes with a long list of compelling results, ranging from lower turnover cost to higher profits. Female senior leaders have a positive impact on the bottom line.
Read MoreAre you a Chicken Little or an ostrich?
In a simple quiz, The Gray Rhino CEO and Founder Michele Wucker has outlined personality traits and solutions for you to discover the ways as a leader you identify and act upon obvious threats or upcoming shifts on the horizon.
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