There is a phrase that Ida Liu now CEO of HSBC Private Bank returns to when she talks about her career. “I have a double ceiling,” she has said, “the glass ceiling on one side and the bamboo ceiling on the other.” Ida Liu built her career at Citi around this insight. After years in […]
“Leaders should hold complexity without the temptation to collapse it,” says Pooja Mishra Prahlad. “They should want to look at things from different perspectives and think deeply to earn the answer.” As a partner at Goldman Sachs with more than two decades in the industry, Prahlad’s call to slow down, reflect, and resist the easy […]
At a certain point in your career, honest feedback becomes surprisingly hard to come by. Not because people around you lack opinions (they may have plenty) but because hierarchy has a way of softening, managing, and redirecting those opinions before they reach you. The higher you rise, the more curated your information environment tends to […]
By Jessica Darmoni “You should always ask,” says Laura Magyar, Partner at Patomak Global Partners, as she talked about her time at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She asked and was subsequently approved to spend a year abroad working at the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) during her tenure. “You don’t lose […]
This Earth Day, the conversation worth having is less about individual behavior and more about the systems we’ve left unchanged. Jharna Saha, Co-Founder and CMO of Enlog, is working on one of the most overlooked of them: what happens to electricity once it’s inside a building. Enlog enables buildings and facilities to continuously optimize their […]
The Glasshammer is running a “Where Are They Now?” series where we catch up with some of the professional women who we profiled ten or more years ago. We spoke with Carey Ryan, now Chief of Staff for Citi Technology & Business Enablement at Citi, about her career evolution and the role she plays in […]
Most senior women we speak to have done the work. The MBA, the stretch assignments, the careful navigation of rooms where they were the only woman at the table. They have developed sharp strategic instincts, learned to read organizational dynamics, and built reputations on delivering results. But even with all that experience, there can be […]
“Being with my clients, helping them to get deals done, building new relationships is what breathes life into me and gets me excited.” Ask Christina Bresani, Wells Fargo’s head of Mid-Cap Investment Banking, about a recent client visit and she’ll tell you about climbing into the cab of a semi-truck in high heels and passing […]
If you have ever sat through a meeting where everyone nodded in agreement but then watched the agreed-upon action items quietly dissolve over the following weeks, you already understand the accountability gap. Not as a concept, but in its impact on execution, trust, and results. That gap matters. Because when teams cannot reliably follow through […]
“Future leaders will need learning agility above everything else,” says Erika Irish Brown. “The pace of change is only accelerating. Today it’s AI, but we don’t yet know what we’ll be navigating tomorrow. What we do know is that the leaders who thrive will be the ones who stay curious, stay open and embrace change […]