You finally got the promotion. Or maybe you landed the executive role you’ve spent years pursuing. You should be celebrating. Instead, within weeks, you’re wondering: Why does everything seem to be on fire? The team is demoralized. The budget has been slashed....
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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