Have you seen a colleague get promoted over you and wondered why? Or thought to yourself, ‘What are they doing that I’m not?’ The truth of the matter is that they know how to self-promote. I know, we’ve all been given messages that self-promotion is bad, or it feels icky and profoundly uncomfortable. That means…
Having a goal matters for your career path and for your continued success. I worked for a crazy man who made our entire legal department miserable – with his micromanaging, his ever-changing priorities, the shifting directions that felt like quick-sand, and his Friday afternoon crisis that would ‘require’ working over the weekend to handle.…
Today, I want to talk about what we can do to make space for mental wellbeing at work. I’ve spoken on this topic frequently, run webinars on it, and even last week led a roundtable discussion on it. We are at a crisis level for women’s wellbeing at work. Throughout the pandemic, women have most…
One of my earliest memories of bias was in 2nd or 3rd grade when I got in trouble for taking my shirt off on the playground at recess. I was hot, it was humid, so I took my shirt off, just like the boys. Well, that was just an e-ticket to the principal’s office and not in…