“Authenticity” is an overused word for a pretty interesting and important idea. For most of us, it only starts to feel exciting when we see it in practice. Authenticity isn’t just an idea then. It’s something we do. And it’s something we better understand if we want to follow through on our goals for ourselves or our organizations or those ideas we have for the world (often that the world needs badly).
Read MoreKaitlin Rattigan and I recently led a Circle Chat on networking in the Take the Lead Circle, and we had a dynamic discussion that I’d love to share. We posed four different question on networking throughout the chat and elaborated on each as a group.
Read MoreThis fall, an estimated 12 million women will enroll in college. The number of women students surpassed men in 1980, and the gap has been widening ever since.
Since 2011, more working women have held college degrees than working men. Women now hold more advanced degrees than men. They are the majority consumer group of an educational system that treats them like newcomers or afterthoughts in many ways.
Read MoreHappy Equal Pay Day!
Seriously, there is such a thing as equal pay day, and it’s today, April 8.
What’s going on with equal pay anyway? Isn’t it a thing of the past since women have achieved relative parity in the workforce?
Read MoreWomen make up nearly half of the U.S. labor force, but on average they still only earn about three-quarters as much as men do. Why?
Read MoreWhy is this Equal Pay Day, Tuesday, April 8th, so important? Because women still only earn 77¢ for every $1 earned by a man. But together, we can fix that. Make Equal Pay Day extra meaningful this year by taking action to close your own pay and leadership gap. For starters, Take The
Read MoreI’d like to say I always show up as my most powerful self at work, backing myself up and other women up as often I need to, pushing for change with all of my energy and intelligence whenever I can.
Read MoreA colleague once gave me a poster bearing the caption: “When you’re up to your a** in alligators, it’s hard to remember your goal was to drain the swamp.” It’s always good for a chuckle… of recognition. Because is there any one of us who hasn’t been there?
Read MoreOn the last day of this Women’s History Month in 2014, I wanted to commemorate some women making history in the present day. While it is always important to celebrate the women who have paved the path and laid the foundation for my fellow sisters and I to continue to blaze trails and break glass ceilings, history is in the making every single day, and the women’s movement looks very different now in how women are choosing to rewrite the narrative. Women’s leadership takes many forms and I want to share with you three women who are using their power to advance women and change the conversation:
Read MoreThe film celebrates the energy and fire in today’s world of women’s college basketball. Like the mega hit “A League of Their Own,” or the international success “Bend It Like Beckham,” “Heartland Hoops” hopes to inspire and delight! My dream is to have audiences walk out of the theater (or get up from their sofa) feeling exuberant, capable, and entertained!
Read MoreWhen GM’s new, and first female, CEO Mary Barra moved quickly and publicly to recall cars with the company’s potentially lethal ignition switch problems her predecessors had known but failed to address for a decade, you could feel the fresh air.
Read MoreFlorence Nightingale is widely recognized as the founder of modern nursing. What’s far less known is that Florence Nightingale was one of the world’s first feminists.
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