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For Accelerating Your Career, Mentorship Is Great—But Sponsorship Is Better
By Deb Pine, Executive Director, Center for Women and Business at Bentley University Despite our strong mentor networks, women remain underrepresented in senior leadership and board roles. The 2016 McKinsey/LeanIn study “Women in the Workplace” found that women hold 46 p ...
“Are You OK?” How Dr. Neha Sangwan Recognized Burnout in Herself & Now Helps Others
“When your mind and body don’t agree,” Sangwan says, “the body always is right.”
5 No-Nonsense Tips for Building Wealth
This Financial Literacy Month, having a clear, confident action plan to take control of your money and build lasting wealth is especially helpful. And who better to hear from on that than Vivian Tu, also known as Your Rich BFF? At the heart of her advice is the memorable fra ...
A Bold New Look—Designed to Reflect You
We’re thrilled to introduce a new look—designed to reflect this unique community’s energy, passion, and wonderfully supportive spirit. Whether you are one of the thousands who attend our virtual national gathering each year, the tens of thousands who join us at our ann ...
Finding Joy: 3 Tips From Yale’s Happiness Professor
You don’t need to wait to get through a challenging time to cultivate happiness, says Dr. Laurie Santos, who teaches the most popular class in Yale’s history: “Psychology and the Good Life,” and has spoken to the Conferences for Women community. Plenty of prove ...
Support “Near Wins” to Get Closer to Success
While many things are beyond our control right now–from world events to how people will behave at Thanksgiving dinner–how we respond to them is up to us. So what if we use this time to focus on what success looks like for us in 2025? Here are five key insights we h ...
4 Strategies to Beat Burnout and Build Team Resilience
As an eventful year comes to a close, many people feel physically and emotionally exhausted. But Jacinta Jiménez, psychologist and author of The Burnout Fix, has tips for catching burnout before it catches you. 1. Develop Psychological Safety “Psychological safety,” say ...
How to Create a Happy, Engaging Workplace
Robyn Garrett is a speaker, author, and CEO of Beamably, a leadership technology company that helps leaders develop the courage to change the world. She also literally wrote the book on happiness at work: Happy at Work: How to Create a Happy, Engaging Workplace for Tod ...
6 Ways to Support the Essential Labor of Caregivers
Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, is clear about the significance of care work—not only to families but also to organizations and society at large. “Care work is the work that makes all other work possible,” she says. Whether it ...
3 Expert Tips on How to Build More Authentic Connections
Entrepreneur Julie Rice and her business partners Elizabeth Cutler and Ruth Zuckerman broke new ground nearly twenty years ago when they founded SoulCycle. And they soon realized that while people came for fitness, they returned for each other. Suddenly, Rice and Cutle ...
