May 26, 2021

Recently, Ursula von der Leyen, the first female president of the European Commission, took to the podium at the European Parliament to declare…

January 14, 2020

Earlier this week, Russian scientists discovered the tomb of four Amazon warrior women, aged 13-50…

August 8, 2021

As a young girl growing up in 1970’s Pittsburgh, I had two preoccupations: Becoming a wide-receiver in the NFL, and…

I’ve had the pleasure recently of working with two different groups of executive women who absolutely knew their worth. The problem was, knowing their worth wasn’t translating into satisfaction or fairness at work…

September 19, 2019

Nothing we do as human beings is more important than raising our children in a loving and safe way…

August 8, 2019

Here's the thing about Elizabeth Warren: What you see is what you get. She's hotly passionate, fiercely intelligent, and unequivocal. She is never not those things. You may not like her, but you know what you're getting…

July 15, 2019

One of my clients called me, breathless, the other day, to ask for my advice about something that had taken place at a meeting the day before. An outspoken member of her executive team had blown up…

June 18, 2019

Young women today have more freedom to choose what they want to do and who they want to be than ever before. We’re in a moment of “Women are powerful!” But are we, really?

June 4, 2019

If you are working in a fast-paced male-dominated environment, it helps to remember that “excellence” sometimes lives in the promise of your words, not their packaging…

May 21, 2019

The change was subtle, not sudden, and one day she woke up and realized she’d been sidelined…She needed to re-establish the credibility with her boss that she had clearly lost…

April 26, 2019

Do I think that women have been kept from being their authentic selves over time and across cultures? Yes, without a doubt. But…so what? Why let that stop you from living your life, right now?

January 23, 2019

Watch closely, and you’ll see that a great presentation isn’t about “confidence,” but rather about comfort…and having the courage to draw your audience in…

November 7, 2018

Americans are locked in a battle for the soul of our country--an exhausting, disquieting fight that seems to have no end. But it will end…

October 25, 2018

In her recent apology, Megyn Kelly declared, “I have never been a P.C. kind of person.” Neither have I. It’s too easy these days to overreact with indignation at something taken out of context. But that is not what happened here…

October 2, 2018

How does one talk to 7-year-olds about the threat of a massacre?..

September 24, 2018

The real question Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony during Thursday’s Supreme Court nomination hearing will raise is not “Did it happen?” but “Who cares?”

September 16, 2018

I have a secret obsession: listening to post-grunge rock while working out. Nothing fuels a sprint on the bike like a hard-driving chorus of “Higher…”

September 13, 2018

Being straightforward can be hard because it requires you to be comfortable with your authority, confident in your point of view, and unconcerned about others’ perceptions of you—three things that are essential to leadership…

August 6, 2018

I was surprised this morning when a client asked for my advice about time management. This is a fast-moving, take-no-prisoners, highly accomplished social media guru. She knows how to get stuff done. What she wanted to talk about was how to get more stuff done…

July 19, 2018

Every world-class creative firm I have worked with believes the same thing—that they are the only ones who are taken to task by their clients. They are certain that their competitors are much tougher, laying down the law with clients and telling them what to do. This, of course, is a myth…