Contributed by Laura Berger, Executive Advisor and Founder of The Berdéo Group. She is also Director of Corporate Programs at Tiara—Exceptional Women’s Coaching. While living in Costa Rica, I learned to rappel waterfalls from great heights. I overcame what I thought was an insurmountable challenge – my fear of heights. When my husband and I […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) In her jaw-dropping 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt Out Revolution,” columnist Lisa Belkin suggested that the reason women aren’t rising to leadership roles in large numbers is simply because they’re not interested. She wrote, “Why don’t women run the world? Maybe it’s because they don’t want […]
by Cleo Thompson (London), founder of The Gender Blog This is the final in a series of articles which looks at how UK business is approaching the issue of women on boards. Britain’s biggest companies have more than doubled the number of women they are appointing to boardroom jobs since Lord Davies, the government’s champion […]
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam The stock market is a roller coaster. You find out you’re not going to hit the numbers for the quarter. More people you know are out of jobs. Congress can’t seem to agree on what they want for breakfast, let alone decide how to run the country. The global […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “Sponsors can be a core differentiators for proteges, particularly as they move up in the organization and competition becomes fiercer,” explained Heather Foust-Cummings, PhD, Senior Research Director at Catalyst, and lead author of the organization’s new report, “Sponsoring Women to Success,” released today. But having a protege is […]
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) According to a Baylor University study published online in the Journal of Applied Psychology, women who return to work after giving birth are more likely to stay on the job if they have greater control over their work schedules. Researchers also found that job security and the ability to make […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “My biggest piece of advice,” said Ellen Galinsky, Co-Founder and President of the Families and Work Institute and a pioneer in the study of work-life issues, “is don’t think that tension will totally disappear. We will always have some work-life tension.” Galinsky’s work has spanned decades and subjects […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) At the headquarters of the Girl Scouts of the USA on Tuesday, the organization welcomed home its beloved leader Frances Hesselbein, who served as its CEO from 1976 to 1990. Upon taking the reins, she led the faltering organization to a new era of dynamic success, by implementing […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Now entering its fourth year, the Goldman Sachs Returnship® program is returning this fall. Originally specific to Goldman’s New York headquarters, the program has expanded to include Hong Kong, Singapore, Salt Lake City, and New Jersey – and the firm is looking toward a London program as well. […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) As our writer Cleo Thompson pointed out in this morning’s piece on UK views on quotas, “According to a recent survey by executive recruiters Harvey Nash, 81% of women feel that bias in the appointment process has a major impact on female representation – but two-thirds (64%) do […]