The helm of a ship is the mechanism that steers the vessel. So the person at the helm is the leader. Where the ship sails is up to her. Lindsey Taylor Wood is the founder and CEO of The Helm, and she aims to steer this venture capital fund firm to investing millions in female founders

We don’t need another example to know what’s up. Cam Newton, NFL star with the Carolina Panthers, had just recently disrespected a female journalist by mocking her in a press conference. Lisa Pearson, CEO of Umbel Corp., a data management platform for sports organizations, was not com

Yes, she knows it sounds odd coming from someone with an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and a masters degree from Harvard Business School. But, Peggy Yu, COO of  Startup Institute, says sometimes the best employees are non-traditional ones. “There is no way to get t

Sometimes the law is on your side in cases of employment discrimination. And sometimes it isn’t. If you are a woman, person of color, older or disabled, chances are high that if you fought the law, the law won. The bombshell release last week of allegations against Hollywood mogul Har

The inside of a F-14 tomcat cockpit is not that much different than the workplace. And Carey Lohrenz would know. The country’s first female fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy and now performance expert and leadership development trainer says, “Too often women try to conform and not tell p

In the end, it doesn’t matter if your food is prepared by a male or female chef, as long as it is the best meal you have ever had. But it does matter if women in the culinary business are not let out of what Rohini Dey calls the “pink cage” of pastry chefs and line cooks in order to b

Brainstorming ideas in order to find creative solutions and approaches to your work can be far more than getting everyone in a room to start throwing spitballs at a wall to see what sticks. As a leader, you need to put as much time into refreshing your creative side as you do to respo

In honor of Labor Day next week, the national paradox of a day off work to salute a day of work, we can look ahead to what is projected as the future of work in this country. The world of work is changing due to artificial intelligence—robots—and the industry is notably lacking in fem

Racism and discrimination in the workplace are not new; their legacies are unfortunately centuries old in this country. But in the last several weeks and months, overt acts of racism in America have multiplied in many different arenas–including the workplace. According to the So

South Africa is the world’s seventh largest producer of wine. The wine industry accounts for 4.6 percent of the Western Cape’s GDP and is the nation’s biggest permanent employer in agriculture. However, the industry is almost exclusively filled with wine companianes owned and operated