We recently asked Megan Beauregard, Enel North America’s Chief Legal Officer, for her tips on building relationships that help you succeed. Here are excerpts from the interview. Q: We all know that relationships are crucial to career success and advancement. But some people feel more naturally adept at relationship skills than others. Would you describe […]
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are octogenarians who are only getting more outspoken with age. It’s one of the benefits of aging, say the longtime friends and stars of Grace and Frankie. “Women get braver as they get older. And certainly, I’ve always been brave,” said Fonda, who has won over 15 major acting awards […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Lyudinka) Wendy K. Smith is an expert in strategic paradoxes–how leaders and senior teams effectively respond to contradictory agendas—and how we can all more effectively navigate the pull of “either-or” thinking. Wendy is the co-author of the 2022 book, Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tension to Solve Your Toughest Problems. She is also […]
Chef José Andrés immigrated to the United States from Spain at 21 with the equivalent of $50 cash. Today, he is a two-time Michelin-star-winning chef, runs 31 dining establishments, is a New York Times best-selling author, professor, father of three, and is a leading philanthropist and humanitarian through his work as founder of the World […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Rudzhan Nagiev) Dr. Swati Mohan is one of the foremost women leaders in aerospace engineering — a field comprised of 88.8 percent men and 11.2 percent women. In 2020, she led the mission that landed a rover on Mars to search for signs of life. Currently, she is leading another high-profile mission […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Rudzhan Nagiev) Before she became CEO of TaskRabbit, Stacy Brown-Philpot was a dog-loving leader at Google who sometimes brought Zeus, her little Yorkshire Terrier, to the office. One day, a manager on her team asked if she could sit with Zeus for a few minutes because she’d just had to tell some […]
Celeste Headlee is an American radio journalist, author, public speaker, co-host of the weekly series Retro Report on PBS – and host of the Conference for Women’s podcast, Women Amplified. This month, she allowed us to turn the tables and interview her about her specialty: effective communication. Q: What made you become a professional communicator? […]
If you’re like many people, you may feel that – given the state of public discourse these days – it’s best to avoid differences of opinion in the workplace. But that’s not necessarily so, says Mónica Guzmán, journalist and author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How To Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (BRO Vector) Gabby Rivera was raised in a Puerto Rican family in the Bronx, came out as queer, and published a critically acclaimed debut novel, Juliet Takes a Breath, about her coming-of-age story. Then Marvel Comics called. They invited her to write America, a comic book series about America Chavez, Marvel’s first […]
“We’ve all been living under this delusion that to succeed, we must burn out,” says Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post and CEO of Thrive Global. “I can tell you that based on the latest science and ancient wisdom, it doesn’t have to be that way. You can achieve peak performance, reach your dreams, […]