How to Read the Room: The Leadership Skill No One Teaches You
Early in my career, I believed that if I had the facts, prepared thoroughly, and delivered a compelling argument, people would naturally support my ideas. Sometimes they did. Many times they didn’t. It took me years to realize that I wasn’t losing because my ideas...
Your Work is Not Enough: Why Every Woman Needs a Power Map
For years, I believed that if I worked hard enough, delivered exceptional results, and treated everyone with respect, my career would naturally progress. I was wrong. Like many women, I was operating under the assumption that organizations are meritocracies. I thought...
The Rules No One Tells You
For years, I believed that hard work was enough. And I worked my tail off to do my best work. Like many women, I was taught that if I put my head down, delivered great results, and stayed focused on doing excellent work, my efforts would be recognized and rewarded....
You’ve Spent Enough Time Pleasing Everyone Else
Midlife women often reach a point where they begin questioning the role they’ve played for years. We’ve been the reliable one, the supportive one, the woman who makes everything work for everyone else. We were conditioned to believe that being selfless was admirable,...
The Most Dangerous Thing A Woman Over 50 Can Believe
Image by Teona Swift at Pexels I’m too old to be promoted. I was 49 years old when I was lost out on a promotion despite the fact I worked my tail off, gave my life to that company for nearly a decade, and had a consistent record of great performance. The rejection...
Why Nothing You Do Ever Feels Like Enough (Even When You’re Successful)
I got a new coaching client last week. She’s an extremely talented and successful architect in her mid forties. My zoom call with her immediate manager along with the CEO of the company that sponsors her work with me, provided me with their goals for the coaching...
Political Savvy Isn’t Optional for Midlife Women
You were told that if you worked hard, kept your head down, and delivered results, you’d be rewarded. But that’s not reality, and in midlife, that realization hits even harder. Because while you’ve been focused 100% on your work, something else has been happening all...
I’ve Had Enough: My Midlife Manifesto
There’s a shift that happens with age. It begins in midlife, when you stand steadfast like wheat in a field facing an impending storm and say, I’ve had enough. You can’t knock me down. I’ve had enough of compromising my values to fit in. I did that for decades, trying...
Are You Positioning Yourself for the Future?
There’s a lot of anxiety in the workplace today. As I wrote in my newsletter last week, with the shift toward AI, women are increasingly aware of the danger of becoming irrelevant and possibly losing their jobs. The concern is what will the future workplace look like...