Charlene Li is an expert on digital transformation, leadership, and the future of work. She is the author of six books, including the New York Times best-seller, Open Leadership. Q: Your most recent book is the Disruption Mindset, which, coincidentally, came out in the fall of 2019 – right before our lives were massively disrupted […]
This article was originally published on chopra.com by Mallika Chopra, CEO of Chopra Global. Finding ways to ground yourself is a powerful way to maintain equanimity when the world around you seems to just be a bit too much. In life, the reality is that you will face challenges – perhaps health concerns, relationship turmoil, […]
Before the term was coined, Betty Hart says, she canceled her father. An ideological divide led her to not speak with him for 10 years. But then she picked up the phone one day and said, “I bet if you could go back in time and change some things, you would. I know I would. […]
There was a time when Austin Channing Brown wanted white people to be afraid of her in the workplace. If they were, she thought, then they couldn’t walk all over her. They couldn’t hurt her with microaggressions. But then she realized there was a better strategy that would better help maintain her dignity and focus […]
This conversation with Rachel Ricketts, author of Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy, has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Q: You advocate using spiritual activism—through inner work on ourselves—to fight and heal from racism. Are you saying white people need to heal from this as well? This is […]
Q: You’ve written that pursuing productivity for productivity’s sake does not lead to satisfaction. In fact, it is diametrically opposed to it. What do you mean? When you are getting things done just to get things done and checking things off the list, most of those things move other people’s agendas forward. That’s what happens […]
Brené Brown will keynote the 2022 CA Virtual Conference for Women on March 2nd. Learn More and Reserve Your Ticket! Q: In a recent New Yorker profile of you, we learn that you dreamt early on about starting a global conversation about vulnerability—which, of course, you have done. What impact do you think the past […]
Q: Since the pandemic, many people have been wrestling with their personal why, their purpose. What do you see going on? And how should businesses respond? I think only half the story is being written about the Great Resignation. The pessimistic view is that people don’t need to work now, but they’ll be back. The […]
We should all have a friend like Luvvie Ajay Jones: a woman who is joyously bold and doesn’t let us get away with thinking: Oh, that’s just the way she’s made. We could never be that bold. In an exclusive conversation with the Conferences for Women this month, the two-time New York Times best-selling author […]
For eight years, Cecilia Muñoz served as the highest-ranking Latina in the White House under President Obama while raising two daughters. Now a senior advisor with New America, she spoke with us recently about what policies changes we need to support families—and how she managed parenting and work. Muñoz is the author of More Than […]