Her look said it all. She checked me out with a quick up and down glance that would kill anyone’s confidence. She was tall, thin, and blonde and very accomplished in her field. She wished me luck before I went on stage to deliver my keynote. “I’m sure you’ll be...
I grew up playing with Barbie dolls and my body image still suffers. After all, how can any human being possibly have a body with those proportions? It’s unrealistic and certainly damaging for young impressionable girls. I was one of them. Research supports the fact...
This is a busy time of year! We are tying up loose ends at work, making holiday plans with family and friends, and if we’re lucky, taking some time off. We enjoy delighting our loved ones with special tokens of our love and appreciation. That’s the holiday spirit! But...
Bain and Company released the findings of their five year research on gender parity in June 2014 and the results were shocking. After just two years in the workplace, women’s aspirations dropped 60% and their confidence 50%. The conclusions of the study were...
Women’s ambition has recently been the focus of a considerable amount of research and surveys. Time and Real Simple, Lean.Org and Mckinsey, Bain and Company, and Harvard Business School are among the many organizations that have studied the current level of ambition...
This is a guest post by Bill Treasurer. The article originally appeared in Entrepreneur.com. It happened again yesterday. I had just given a talk on courage-building to 600 CEOs and business owners. After my talk, one CEO approached me with a common dilemma. “My...
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