Why Confidence Requires Courage

Last week, I had the opportunity to work with a leadership team at a high tech company in California. The goal was to build trusting relationships across the team and to focus on future opportunities for the business. I stayed behind one of the days to observe some of the leaders take part in a “career board of directors” panel. “What is that?” you might ask. It’s a new program they’re trying out, designed to give career advice and increased visibility to junior staff within the organization. What transpired next surprised me…

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2014: The Year You Get Out of Your Own Way

A year from now, looking back on 2014, what do you want this year to have been about?

I’d like to see us get out of our own way, get out ahead of the internal fears, “shoulds” and “what if’s” that too often hamstring our change-making efforts and distract from the tasks before us. With women so vastly underrepresented in our major institutions and poorly represented in media, we have plenty of things working against us. We don’t want to work against ourselves, too.

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Women Like You Take The Lead: Dana Theus

Dana Theus is the President & CEO of InPower Consulting, a development and culture-design firm specializing in cultivating and supporting gender-partnered leadership teams, helping companies retain their best talent (especially women). Dana is a research-based advocate for talent innovation and women’s leadership change initiatives that produce business results.

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