Women Do Ask: What The Research Reveals About Women and Salary Negotiation

Women Do Ask: What The Research Reveals About Women and Salary Negotiation For decades, the conversation about women and salary negotiation has started from the same assumption: women are paid less because they don’t ask. Fix the woman, the logic goes, and you fix the gap. Teach her to be bolder, practice her “power pose,” […]
How to Respond When Someone Assumes You’re Not the Doctor

How to Respond When Someone Assumes You’re Not the Doctor You introduce yourself, review the labs, and walk the patient through the plan. Then comes the question: “So when is the doctor coming in?” For many women in medicine, this moment is common. When patients, families, staff, or even colleagues assume you are not the […]
Dealing With Slackers at Work: Communication & Boundary Scripts

Dealing With Slackers at Work: Communication & Boundary Scripts Few things are more frustrating at work than realizing you are carrying more than your fair share while someone else consistently does less. For women in leadership, the situation can become especially complicated. You may want to be supportive and collaborative, but you also know that […]
What Are Your Gifts? Discovering What You Already Carry Within

What Are Your Gifts? This week, I found myself thinking about a deceptively simple question: What are my gifts? The question was inspired by the August 9 reflection, Calling Forth Our Gifts, in Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance. It made me wonder how often we move through our lives using our gifts without ever stopping […]
How to Use AI to Improve Communication at Work

How to Use AI to Improve Communication at Work Communication can make or break a leader’s influence. The ability to explain a vision, give feedback, navigate tension, advocate for resources, and create trust is not an optional leadership skill. It is the work. Learning how to Use AI to Improve Communication can help women in […]
High-Functioning Anxiety vs. True Ambition: How to Tell the Difference

High-Functioning Anxiety vs. True Ambition: How to Tell the Difference When you are a woman navigating the upper echelons of corporate, creative, or academic power, your drive is often lauded as your greatest asset. You are the leader who stays late, anticipates every operational bottleneck, meticulously polishes every presentation, and maintains a flawless professional veneer. […]
The Science of Indecision: Why You Freeze and Others Decide Instantly

The Science of Indecision: Why You Freeze and Others Decide Instantly Leadership requires decisions. Every day, women leaders are asked to make choices about strategy, hiring, finances, priorities, conflict, communication, and career direction. Yet many highly intelligent and capable women find themselves stuck in a cycle of overthinking, second-guessing, and delaying action. Meanwhile, others appear […]
How AI Can Make You a Better Leader (Without Losing Your Voice)

How AI Can Make You a Better Leader (Without Losing Your Voice) Leadership is evolving rapidly. Between increasing workplace complexity, growing demands on managers, and constant communication expectations, many women leaders feel stretched thin. At the same time, AI in leadership is becoming one of the most talked-about workplace trends. Some leaders are embracing it […]
How to Stop Being Socially Awkward: A Practical Guide on What Actually Works

How to Stop Being Socially Awkward: A Practical Guide on What Actually Works Have you ever walked away from a conversation replaying every word you said? Perhaps you worried that you talked too much, not enough, said the wrong thing, or missed an important social cue. If so, you’re not alone. Many successful women leaders […]
Why Your Team Stops Telling You the Truth (And How to Fix It)

Why Your Team Stops Telling You the Truth (And How to Fix It) It is the mid-quarter review, and you are looking at a dashboard of green metrics. Your project timeline is technically on track, your team members are nodding in agreement during your weekly Zoom calls, and your Slack channels are filled with polite […]