As I was reading an article on Culture and Chief Executives, I was thinking about where I’ve been, what I’ve experienced, and what has both worked and not worked. A company’s culture is the collection of self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing, the patterns that determine “the way we do things around here.” […]
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Professional Women of Yore Are Becoming Extinct
Corporate America, as we know it, is very different from when my parents were in the workforce. And with technology being so woven into our daily lives, the future is ever changing for our children and their children. Yet in some ways, things don’t change as I scroll through the thought leaders at Fast Company’s […]
How Many Women Who Lean In Are Fired?
I just noticed a former client’s job title change to something referring to “working for me”. I was quite surprised given she was a very successful C-level executive working for a well-known brand. Although I have yet to hear her story, I know it wasn’t by choice that she is no longer there, even if […]
Why I like TED
TED.com (and Coursera.org) are two very distinct reasons why I like technology. Sure I’m hammering away on the keyboard of this Macbook Pro and looking at my iPhone at a text message, but they seem like a way of life and an extension of me. I take them for granted. But I do not take […]
Who’s Your Sponsor?
When we trace the steps of every well-known female success story out there, I bet we can find a mentor or sponsor somewhere along the journey. Maybe it was a college professor or parent. Maybe a close friend. When taking a class from David Gergen at Harvard back in 2004, he shared a video where […]
Focus and Clarity
If I can apply the same focus and clarity to my business that I felt when I tried on those EVERYBODY boots at a boutique for $290 (only to find them later on Amazon for $130), then I would be launching this puppy with my partners in less than 2 months. But, alas, when it […]
Currently without Company
It’s sort of weird when people ask me where I work. I feel like the character Robin Scherbatsky, in How I Met Your Mother, who struggles with her identity as a Canadian living in America. After feeling like a woman with no country…, the LA Times reports on the episode, Robin decides to become a woman […]
Is Branding that Easy?
I just had a conversation with my colleagues about brand development, and we are in the throes of defining who we are, what we stand for, and what we are offering to our community. This is not an easy task, especially when doing it for yourself. However, I made a statement that “branding is so […]
Re-Introducing Agent M1
To the outside world, agent M1 is your every day wife, mom and seasoned professional. At work, however, she transforms into a covert leader, secretly wondering how to fix the myriad problems at work. She knows she can be a change agent, even when the threat of disaster looms. The question is not how, but […]
