Should I stay or should I go to a new firm now that my bonus is paid as a banker, fund manager or lawyer? Am I on the right promotional track to make it to Managing Director, SVP or Partner or even executive committee? This is a common question that all executives working in financial […]
“Failure will help you advance in your career if you examine it carefully and accept it as an important teacher. Failure never lets up. It’s not about doing things wrong. It’s about learning and re-learning all the lessons that a challenging career offers.” Carol Evans, Intrepid Woman, Pioneer and Advocate for working women shares her insights […]
If your goal is to get promoted in 2020, then you might consider doing an inventory of your relationships. Figuring out who your advocates or sponsors are is a good start. Then think about how you deploy them as true sponsors, so that you can secure and be rewarded for some high profile assignments. This, […]
Having women in your inner circle matters for career success.
To celebrate and honor the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, we wanted to put out a call out for amazing female executives in financial and professional services who identify as African American or Black women (British or American or from another nation) to be profiled as part of Black History Month coming up as a […]
Happy New Year 2020! Theglasshammer.com is in its third decade as I founded this leading career advice site for professional women in 2007. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In December, we rounded up the year and the decade and stated that to see real change, […]
People want different things. Sometimes at different times or chapters of their life. Coaching is the best investment to help you figure out what you want (goals) and what is standing in your way to achieve them. Externally, there are often barriers and we analyze that using organizational psychology models to understand what levers to […]
Erica Klinkowize began her career in finance at Goldman Sachs in 2003 and for over a decade, she had various roles that focused primarily on Liquidity. In July 2014, she made the leap to Bank of America and continued to work in the Liquidity space within Treasury until April 2019. After almost 20 years into […]
The headline for rounding up this decade is simple: doing the same thing over and over again is the very definition of madness. Neuroscience and behavioral science have the answers to the (lack) of gender equity issue. The questions are, do people want the answer? And are they prepared to what it takes to get […]
Deborah Lorenzen is the head of Enterprise Data Governance at State Street. We caught up with her to discuss what is energizing her as we enter 2020 and what she hopes to achieve for herself and for others as a change leader for women in the workplace. Nicki from theglasshammer (NG): Deb, we have profiled […]