Women leaders: In your contradiction is your unique contribution. Here's a high-drama survival story- and an invitation to "name and claim" the strengths no one can diminish.
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Leadership storytelling is the buzz we’ve have been “buzzing” about as a key strategy for women leaders for 30+ years. Today, we celebrate NLL alumna Christi Shaw (CEO, Kite) for her groundbreaking FDA approval- a big win in a career working to cure cancer. Learn how she embodies the “leader storyteller”- and how you can own your narrative to live your why.
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McKinsey’s Women in the Workplace is the largest annual study of women in corporate America. The 2021 takeaway: Women leaders (particularly intersectional women) are showing up—and burning out.
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“Many of the claims don’t make any sense" - Mark Zuckerberg in response to Facebook whistleblower France Haugen’s Senate testimony Tuesday. His attempt to minimize: literally ancient.
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When I say I’m a leadership coach, people think I help tall people speak louder. I’ve learned as a 2nd generation leadership coach with over 10yrs in the field: the most effective leaders are the most themselves. When it comes to impact, radical integrity invariably beats conformity to stereotype.
Yet: few define themselves as leaders. Being a leader must mean being smarter, better, stronger than others. Being a leader must mean others are lesser, coerced, controlled. This old model of “power over” limits good people’s willingness to step up.
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An interview with NLL trainer and coach Dorothea Grimes. Dorothea Grimes was a candidate in our very first Rutgers Executive Leadership Program for Women back in 2000. She continued to become a program coach in 2001 and is today a valued part of our training team. Dorothea is a PhD scientist and the first African-American woman to become a Director in over one hundred years at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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As we transition to hybrid or in-person work, we’re supposed to feel good… right? Anyone who’s received an invitation to a supposedly “fun” party with ambiguous dread understands the complexity of social anxiety.
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