by Bonnie Marcus | Aug 20, 2025 | MeToo, Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace
Over the course of my corporate career, my stories of sexual harassment are too numerous to share. They span from overt sexual invitations to off color comments. In the beginning of my career especially, there wasn’t a day that I didn’t hear inappropriate remarks,...
by Bonnie Marcus | Aug 14, 2025 | leadership, networking, relationship building and women, Self Promotion, Women in the Workplace
In the workplace today, if you want to advance your ideas and your career, it’s not just about how hard you work or how well you perform, though those matter. It’s about your ability to shape perceptions, build alliances, and move others to act. For women,...
by Bonnie Marcus | Aug 6, 2025 | Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace
Lisa can be impatient and reactive. Her defensiveness prevents her from listening to others. As a result, she often triggers and turns people off, and in the workplace, she has been labeled as ‘difficult’ to work with. Supportive of her talent and career yet...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 31, 2025 | Office politics, Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace
My new boss was a prominent member of the boy’s club. A buddy of the CEO at my company, he was brought in by him to assume the role of SVP in the northeast. My first impression was hardly positive. We met in a noisy hotel bar at our first national conference together...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 23, 2025 | life balance
It’s about a mile and a quarter down the hill to my happy place. Each Sunday afternoon, sunscreened and sneakers on, I embark on my journey to peace. The sun, breaking through the early morning marine layer, is my invitation to grab my Kindle, the keeper of all...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 16, 2025 | ambition, Assertive Communication, Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace
Early in my career, I was hired by a former boss from another company as a regional sales manager for a national healthcare staffing company. I was certainly qualified for the job with a track record of increasing revenue growth at previous companies. But the young...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
The call came in from a senior male leader at a global financial institution located in New York City. He was interested in having me coach a female manager who was considered to have high potential. She stood out among her peers in a recent leadership program for her...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jun 25, 2025 | ambition, goal setting, life balance, Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace
For many professional women, “work-life balance” sounds like some crazy ass unattainable dream, beautiful in theory, yet elusive in reality. Today, the tension between ambition and well-being has never been more palpable. High-achieving women are navigating...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jun 18, 2025 | ambition, Gender Bias, leadership, Office politics, Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace
For generations, women have been told to want more, do more, be more. We are encouraged to dream big, lean in, break glass ceilings. And yet, the moment we demonstrate ambition, the very trait required to achieve those dreams, we’re often met with suspicion,...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jun 4, 2025 | networking, relationship building and women, Self Promotion, Women in the Workplace
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just focus on doing your work and not have to worry about promoting yourself to get credit? In a perfect world, hard work would speak for itself. But in today’s complex, ever-changing workplaces, visibility matters. It matters a lot....
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