You want a promotion but a voice in your head keeps telling you that you’re not good enough despite all your qualifications for the position. You convince yourself that you’ll never get it, and unconsciously, your negative thoughts influence your behavior, your body...
Often referred to as compassionate with a killer instinct, litigator Kristen Gibbons Feden, uses her voice to represent survivors in sexual abuse, human trafficking, and child abuse cases. Acknowledged internationally for her success in the courtroom, Gibbons won two...
When I was writing my book, The Politics of Promotion: How High Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead, I interviewed an ambitious young woman from a competitive consulting firm who had just returned from maternity leave. Recently promoted before her leave, she was...
Women’s empowerment is an essential element of gender equality. However, gender equality is not just a ‘woman’s issue’. Gender equality and women’s rights are human rights issues that require men’s engagement and commitment in order to facilitate change in the power...
When Maria Konnikova originally approached Erik Seidel, world champion and Poker Hall of Fame inductee, to be her mentor, she had never played poker. With a PhD in psychology, Konnikova’s primary interest in poker was to learn about human behavior. The New York Times...
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