Bounce back. Get up. Put on your big girl pants.
We sometimes repeat trite clichés when we (or one of our friends, colleagues or family members) have a setback.
But what does it mean to be truly resilient? And how can we fill our toolbox with a set of skills and strategies that will help us recover?
Read MoreBeing happy is not the sole, top professional goal for me, nor for many women leaders I know. It’s a welcome and worthwhile byproduct of a productive, meaningful life, not the whole point.
Read MoreThe language we use to describe and investigate our lives—personal and professional—centers on story.
“I’m starting a new chapter.”
“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”
“End of story.”
Read MoreEach time I travel by plane I smile while quietly evaluating the alignment, physical fatigue, and footwear choices of the flight attendants managing the boarding process. The evaluation is almost subconscious. As an occupational Pilates teacher and movement consultant, I teach people with physically rigorous jobs how to use their bodies as efficiently as possible so they can pursue their passion as long as they like, pain free.
Read MoreIt was my third editorial job out of graduate school. After one year working at the weekly magazine, I asked my female boss for a raise.
“My rent has gone up and I need to make more money.”
Read MoreThe score was 32 to 14.
The recent Modern Marketing Summit 2016 in Chicago recently, a gathering of hundreds of digital marketing executives, creatives, agency leaders, retailers and mobile innovators, offered several all-male panels (see Take The Lead’s recent column on that issue here), with the roster of speakers featuring 32 men and 14 women leaders in marketing.
Read MoreThis is not your father’s military.
The Naval Academy’s Class of 2020 will represent the largest enrollment of women in the Academy’s 171-year-long history, Meredith Newman reported recently in Military.com. The news that these 331 young women, roughly 33 percent of the incoming class, will set a new precedent comes just as the Naval Academy celebrates 40 years of women being in enrollment.
Read MoreFierce public speaking skills enhance the profile of your organization, mission or agenda– as we have witnessed in the past few weeks at both political conventions. Your effectiveness as a speaker can also alter the larger perception of who you are and broaden your reach in a larger public conversation.
Read More“Some of our workplace policies look like they are straight out of ‘Mad Men,’” President Barack Obama said at the first-ever United State of Women Summit earlier this summer.
Read MoreThe Republican National Convention this past week in Cleveland and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week gets us all thinking about conferences and network events beyond politics and the race for the White House.
Read MoreShow her the money. Please.
New research published in the Harvard Business Review reveals that female entrepreneurs are more successful when their start-ups are funded by female venture capitalists.
Read MoreNatalie Portman has no pants, the all-female leads in the remake of “Ghostbusters” were trashed before the movie came out and the TV women on all levels were snubbed for Emmy nominations.
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