After becoming a four-time Grand Slam champion and the highest-paid female athlete in the world, Naomi Osaka became a leading role model for mental health. She did this by withdrawing from the French Open in 2021 – a rather challenging year for most of us – to prioritize her own mental health. For her openness, […]
Ginni Rometty didn’t grow up in a privileged family. She didn’t have lots of early mentors. And she didn’t pursue a field filled with women who excelled before her. Yet she became the first female President and CEO of IBM, one of the most enduring tech companies in the world. So, how did she do […]
Of the nearly 8 billion people in our world, relatively few will do something that changes the course of history. Even fewer will do so in a way that saves millions of lives. And fewer still will break barriers along the way – becoming role models to a generation of girls passionate about science and […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Violeta Stoimenova) Ditch the conventional thinking that you have to sacrifice one to get the other. You did it! You landed the job offer at that company you’ve been interviewing with for the past month, and you can’t wait to get started. Now, you’re feeling stressed out because you want to ensure […]
What do you envision when you think of someone with disabilities? Odds are you picture someone in a wheelchair or someone who wears dark glasses and walks with a cane or … You get the picture. But the reality is that, in the workplace, 62 percent of disabilities are non-apparent. You can’t tell just by […]
What happens when two very honest and successful women – like Viola Davis and Jameela Jamil – get together to talk about the things that hold women back? Yup. You hear a lot of honesty about perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and how to navigate them. The problem of perfectionism “Perfection is the enemy of progress,” said […]
Ellen McGirt, an award-winning journalist who covers race, culture, and leadership for Fortune, put the question directly to Frances Haugen: “How do you recommend that somebody who needs to tell truth to power, to build a better way within their organization, do it?” Here’s what Haugen – a data engineer whose revelations showed that Facebook […]
When people talk about being exhausted and mentally drained from their workday, it’s most likely not because of the physical aspect of their job. Although some jobs require a lot of physical labor, most of the “laboring” is the emotional component. Emotional labor is the definition of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the […]
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (shapecharge) When Celine Martin was promoted to Vice President and became part of the management team at Johnson & Johnson, she felt she had three strikes against her. She was the youngest, she was a non-native English speaker, and she was a woman. But before her first meeting with the team, her […]
Academy Award-winning actress and advocate Marlee Matlin became deaf at 18 months old. Then one day, at around eight or nine, she was watching TV and noticed a deaf actor signing — or, as she put it, “speaking my language.” Immediately, she thought, “If she can do it, why can’t I?” It happened to be […]
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