Women Entrepreneurs Brave Healthcare Start-Up Space For Solutions

Sharing decades of experience in tech, digital and start-up entrepreneurship, Ursula Hessenflow and Lora Ivanova were prepared for many tough questions in the quest to raise capital.

Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonAugust 21, 2017Change, female entrepreneurs, health, Michele Weldon, StartupComment

Sick And Tired: Why You Need To Take Care of You On Your Career Path

It’s not like it was in middle school when perfect attendance—not missing a single day of school in a year—could grant you a certificate, award, mention during morning announcements on the last day of classes or maybe a bright gold sticker.

Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonAugust 18, 2017Career, health, illness, Michele Weldon, women in the workplaceComment

The Sum — The Meaning of This Week: Crossroads (Part 2)

As in Charlottesville

As in the junctions in life where we must choose hate or love, war or peace, yes or no.

‪As in if ever there was a week when we have to address the moral crossroads of leadership that I talked about in last week’s Sum, this is it.

Change LeadershipGloria FeldtAugust 18, 2017Charlottesville, Crossroads, The SumComment

What Color Is Your Messaging? Why It’s A Must to Include Women Leaders of Color

It all started with lunch and the question, “What do you need?”

Lauren Wesley Wilson was 25 and working at the junior level in a communications firm in Washington, D.C. in 2011 when she decided to launch a luncheon series. The goal was a grassroots effort to gather “open and honest” women of color in marketing and communications to help each other with whatever they needed.

Women Like YouMichele WeldonAugust 14, 2017Change, inspirational women, Michele Weldon, representation, women of colorComment

The Sum — The Meaning of This Week: Crossroads

As in a junction where two or more roads meet, offering the traveler multiple paths.

As in an intersection, a point at which a crucial decision must be made that will have far reaching consequences (yep, I googled this one – small clue about my inspiration).

As in the moral crossroads of leadership. Where Google CEO Sundar Pichai stands at this moment.

Google This: Best Ways To Handle A Hostile Coworker Who Shows Gender Bias

Hopefully, most of us are not daily sparring with co-workers behaving similarly to the fired Google employee James Damore who recently unleashed a 10-page anti-diversity, gender-bashing manifesto.

Bless This Mess: Redefine Power and Brilliance in Life's Complications

“Perfection is overrated.”

That is one of the truths Kelly McNelis, founder of Women For One, wants every woman on the planet to know and internalize. You can redefine power in your mess.

Legally Bummed: Change Needed For Women Leaders In Law Firms

Pop culture role models for female lawyers over the past several years range from the hilarious underdog Elle Woods in “Legally Blonde” to the relentless “Judge Judy,” the ruthless Annalise Keating in “How To Get Away With Murder” and the real-life depiction by Edie Falco playing defense attorney Leslie Abramson in the upcoming NBC anthology series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.

ParityMichele WeldonAugust 7, 2017business, Career, Michele Weldon, parity, Women in LawComment

You're Not Alone: 5 Tips for Women Leaders In Digital Strategy Consulting

As managing director of Career Builder India, Arti Bedi Pullins learned lessons on startups and decision-making that helped make her the independent leader and digital strategy consultant she is today.

The Sum — The Meaning of This Week: #SisterCourage

As in be a sister. Have the courage to raise the issues that need to be tackled even if they are hard. Put sister and courage together with a strategic plan and act on it and you can create a movement that will change the world.

Mentors and SponsorsGloria FeldtAugust 4, 2017#SisterCourage, bully, Gloria Feldt, The Sum Comment