Should I Stay or Should I Go? My Story Wrestling with Career Crossroads
I’ll never forget sitting in my office late one night, staring at the glow of my computer screen, and realizing: I can’t keep doing this. I was exhausted.I was angry.And I was questioning whether this company where I had poured 8 years of my life, now under new...
Owning Her Ambition: Rebecca Bloom’s Fight for Women in Healthcare
Rebecca Bloom never set out to be a women’s health advocate. She didn’t have a master plan, a grand mission, or a childhood dream of changing healthcare. Instead, she evolved into it, shaped by the circumstances of her own life, her legal career, and her mother’s...
Sexual Harassment at Work post #MeToo? It’s still there and women are losing protection with the elimination of DEI.
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,...
The Power of Influence: How You Can Leverage Your Innate Strengths to Impact Change and Advance at Work
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, especially...
How Self-Imposed Barriers Hold Us Back and How to Break Free
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...
Outsmarting the Patriarchy at Work Without Shrinking or Selling out
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...
Taking a Break from a Broken World
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...
Be a Rockstar at Your Next Meeting. 6 Ways to Prepare and Own the Room.
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...
Redefining Balance: How Ambitious Women Can Thrive Without Burning Out
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...