By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “Don’t downsize your own horizons. Allow yourself to imagine what you can be,” advised Suzanne Rab, Partner at King & Spalding. In addition to her recent completion of a book on Indian competition law, Rab, an antitrust lawyer, has been tasked with launching the UK and EU antitrust […]
By Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, Michigan) Every day, more organizations are recognizing the impact sustainability practices can have on their business and are implementing sustainable initiatives. However, sustainability can’t exist in silo, it should be integrated into all aspects of organization. To be authentic and effective, sustainability must be measured, then goals set, documented and […]
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) We hear it all the time: why are women still so underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) fields? There are scientific fields in which women are plentiful, such as medicine, and though it’s true that women remain grossly under-represented in engineering and computing, things are changing – perhaps […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “My advice for women is to know yourself,” said Julia Fuller, VP of Environment, Health and Safety at Thomson Reuters. She explained, “Focus on what are the things that you really hold dear as your core values. What are you really good at? Know your real strengths. Having […]
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam Journaling is a powerful leadership practice that I recommend to all my Executive Coaching clients if they want transformative change in their leadership. When I first started journaling, it was something I had to force myself to sit down and do. I am the kind of person who likes […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) According to Meg Brown, Director of Climate Change and Sustainable Investment Research at Citi, one of the first things she learned when beginning her career was the importance of speaking up. “When I was quite new, I didn’t know that if you don’t ask you don’t get. But […]
By Robin Madell (San Francisco) Technology, social media, and the recession have drastically changed the face of job seeking—it’s much harder today to stand out from the noise. Talent hunters now have access to literally hundreds of millions of online resumes in an instant through job boards, search engines, and networking sites. Yet the online […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Reflecting on her career, Deborah Hazell said one thing she wishes she had learned earlier is the importance of being heard. “Speak up if you want something,” she said. “My key promotions have largely been because managers only realized I was the right person when I put my […]
Contributed by The Runaway MBA Diagonal networking. Have your heard of it? Probably not… because I made it up several years ago. It’s a phrase that I coined after noticing a trend in networking efforts that were more and not less successful. As I set off in my job search, I began the process of […]
By Liz O’Donnell, Founder of HelloLadies.com The day before the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston last week, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking, was fired up. Iskenderian was reflecting on a story in the Financial Times that ran with the headline, “Women bankers linked to rise in risk-taking.“ The article, based […]