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By Robin Madell One of the toughest career decisions you’ll ever make is choosing whether to stay with your current company, or pursue a new opportunity with another organization. While on some level it’s important to “go with your gut,” you don’t want to hinge your future job direction entirely on intuition.
By Robin Madell If you’re a mentor, you have a lot of responsibility. Your mentee relies on you for valuable guidance, input, and advice on successful career navigation. But of all the lessons you might choose to impart or doors you might open for your protégé, how do you ensure that you are giving the […]
By Robin Madell While we read plenty about women leaving corporate jobs for entrepreneurial ventures, much less discussed is the option of female intrapreneurship. Being an intrapreneur simply means acting like an entrepreneur in terms of risk-taking and innovation while working within a large corporation. The potential pros of entrepreneurship are often touted and well-known: […]
Corporate restructuring has become a dreaded buzzword for many in the finance, tech, and legal industries. The upheaval caused to employees at all levels of the organization, including the executive rungs, during a reorganization can be cause for significant career concern. How can you make sure that new bosses or those above you in the […]
By Robin Madell (San Francisco) Last month nearly 1,000 people attended The Anita Borg Institute’s (ABI) 2013 Women of Vision (WOV) awards banquet held in Santa Clara, CA on May 9. Several hundred female college students also attended the event free of charge, sponsored by tech company representatives. The event honored Intel as the Top […]
By Robin Madell (San Francisco) Last year, the 2012 Accounting MOVE report investigated the role of community service for women in accounting. In the 2013 MOVE Project [PDF], Joanne Cleaver, author of The Career Lattice and the report’s creator, set out to understand why mid-career women in accounting firms either stay the course on the […]
This article is part of our June Pride series – check back all month as we explore what it means to be an LGBT woman or ally in the professional workplace. By Robin Madell (San Francisco) Coming out at work is not a one-time event that’s over and done with in a single revelation. For […]
By Robin Madell (San Francisco) The Boston Club released a study in May that examines the gender diversity of women directors and chief executives in the Massachusetts nonprofit sector. The 2013 Census of Women Directors and Chief Executives of Massachusetts’ Largest Nonprofit Organizations: A Benchmark Report is the first of its kind to track the […]
By Robin Madell, San Francisco Imagine if you were able to recruit women from across the country to spend hundreds of hours debating how best to help women stay on the leadership track at American companies. Then imagine what might happen if a small group of those women spent countless more hours distilling the resulting […]
So you read Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, and perhaps like our editor liked it more than you expected to. Now what? The messages in the book are a powerful call to action to do more than just read and move on. The author’s expressed hope at the end of the book is that women will […]