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 […]
Emotional Labor: How It Affects Future Careers for Moms
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Kateryna Onyshchuk) 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 […]
3 Ways to Cultivate Executive Presence — from Johnson & Johnson’s Executive Celine Martin
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 […]
Marlee Matlin’s Advice on How to Make Your Voice Heard
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (fizkes) 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?” […]
Daniel Pink on Creating the Life You Want
Daniel Pink, a speaker at the Massachusetts Conference for Women, is one of the best-selling nonfiction authors of the last decade with his books on work, business, and behavior. He joined us recently for a conversation about his latest book, Power of Regret, and what leaders need to know about the power of purpose in […]
You Don’t Need to Be Busy to Be Productive. You Need to Be Reflective
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Chinnapong) 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 […]
Creating a Personal SWOT Analysis for your Career Development
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Nastya Bevz) We’ve all heard of a SWOT analysis. One of the most popular ways to analyze a business or when project planning. Some of us may have been exposed to our first professional SWOT analysis in a college course or early into our careers. The whole concept was derived from being […]
3 Ways to Unlock Your Authenticity
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com/portfolio/DamirCudic On the night of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Peabody Award-winning journalist Mariana Atencio had her colorful dress ready to go. Then the phone rang. It was her manager with a message: “Don’t look too Latina.” So, she went to Saks Fifth Avenue and chose a more somber black-and-white dress. Then, […]
What Mental Illness Can Teach Us About Mental Health
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com/portfolio/ThitareeSarmkasat Bryony Gordon is an award-winning journalist, author, and mental health campaigner. She is also candid about her own mental health challenges — and what she has learned from them. The author of five Sunday Times best-selling books, including No Such Thing as Normal, Mad Girl, and Glorious Rock Bottom, recently discussed this […]
How To Crush Limiting Beliefs That May Be Holding You Back
The subconscious mind is an aggregate of everything perceived in one’s lifetime, which is a lot. Your subconscious mind speaks to you even when you don’t talk back. And how a woman speaks to herself can transform her life. Scientists have found that only 5% of what you do, think, and feel comes from the […]