Iowa has been the center of the political universe this week as the first caucus makes every talking point of the campaign season count, so Fusion came out with a bold list of “30 Women Who Will Change The Election.” The series of 30 videos highlights the XX movers who move past “Washington types” and predictable party lines to create a group of dynamic change-makers.
Read MoreWomen are mistakenly too hesitant to fully own up to our own worth, talent, skill; even to step up to our own ambition. From a young age, we are acculturated to feel as though we are not enough, collapsing on false modesty. If you reframe that mentality to acknowledge all that you’ve accomplished in your career and
Read MoreOriginally posted on LinkedIn by Nereyda Esparza.
They say that you should write about what you know and love, and to me, there’s nothing more exciting than to understand how women can grow and embrace their power.
Last year at a workshop in Chicago I had the great pleasure of meeting the legendary Gloria Feldt, former CEO and President of Planned Parenthood and founder of Take The Lead, an organization that develops women to take equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. She introduced me to nine power tools effective leaders use to embrace their power, and I left inspired to start this project. Over the next couple of months, I will write short essays on each of these tools in an effort to inspire women, especially young millennial women to better understand #PowerTO, what it is, and why we should have it.
Read MoreHaving a network is important, and to build a successful one, you need to dust off skills you may not have used since you were in school and had to navigate lunchroom politics and cliquish parties. It’s a fact – sometimes it isn’t what you know, but who you know that makes networking a crucial skill, not only to get ahead in business, but also to move forward in life. If you don’t have a solid network in place, don’t worry though, it’s never too early or too late to build one!
Read MoreYou knew they were great at making basic t-shirts, but did you know they’re doing great things for women as well? Congratulations are in order for Gap Inc., winner of the 2016 Catalyst Award.
Read MoreThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a.k.a. the people who vote on the Oscars, are the first ones to admit they’re not happy the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag is still a thing. After the second year in a row in which zero actors of color received acting nominations, and with numerous celebrities speaking up about it, the Academy is taking dramatic steps to improve diversity in its ranks so that the whitewash doesn’t happen again.
Read MoreBusiness and world leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland last week for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. Given that this is a meeting of many of the world’s most powerful people, you could guess that women are underrepresented at the summit, and you would be right. Women made up 18 percent of the participants at Davos this year. It’s an improvement over last year’s figure of 17 percent, but it still left a few women attendees noticing they were the odd ones out.
Read MoreWe had a great start to our signature Virtual Happy Hours for 2016 with leadership coach and communication expert Dr. Marcia Reynolds, author of The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs. Her passion for how the human brain works inspired her to conduct research on how people react to those difficult conversations at work that worry everyone. She talks about how to make way for “maximum gain with minimum pain” in those tough conversations so they end up being transformational.
Read More“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today, as we commemorate the great Martin Luther King, let’s take a moment to not only listen to his words of wisdom again, but to stop and think about what meaning they hold in our own lives.
Read MoreBut that’s only because half of NASA’s latest astronaut class is female, and they’re training for a mission that could see them visit Earth’s nearest neighbor in 15 years.
Read MoreWith only two non-white members on its eight-person board of directors, Apple, Inc.’s diversity problem isn’t quite on the level of the 2016 Oscars, but it definitely has room for improvement.
Read MoreLast July we wrote about how Taiwan was on the verge of electing a female president for the first time in its history, with both major political parties nominating female candidates. Over the weekend the island made it official by voting Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party into office.Tsai won 56 percent of the vote in what the Economist is calling a “landslide that will change Chinese politics.”
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