Remote Survival: 3 Micro-Habits To Boost WFH Productivity

We won’t deny it. There's a huge amount of pressure on women in the workplace. Even as some workplaces return to the office, working from home is still part of the hybrid job description. For others, WFH is the “new normal.” Additional stressors add to this equation, but productivity shouldn't be one of them. When working efficiently at home, many tend to seek out dramatic and overly optimistic changes in an attempt to remedy procrastination and a lack of motivation. Unfortunately, there’s no one major quick fix to improving your productivity when working from home.

Live Your Bucket List: Founder, CEO, LGBTQ+ Advocate Does The Work and Wins

At her first job after graduating college in 1990 at Walden Books, Monica Smith, CEO and founder of Marketsmith, would walk into one of their stores filled with books and magazines and feel overwhelmed.

“It would become my best tool,” says Smith, who was severely dyslexic since childhood and was not able to read effectively until she was 18.

FREE MASTERCLASS: HOW TO “CARPE THE CHAOS” AND THRIVE

Issue 174 — August 2, 2021

A colleague once gave me a poster bearing the caption, “When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember your goal was to drain the swamp.”

Global Star Pianist, Composer Marina Arsenijevic Shines On Women’s Equality Day

Hers is a rhapshody in power.

Award-winning concert pianist and composer Marina Arsenijevic has spent a lifetime creating music and performances around the globe that offer healing and respite in times of conflict and recovery.

This Is How She Does It: 5 Ways Workplaces Put Women At Center of Recovery

Of course, women have come a long way since gaining their right to vote. Female representation in traditionally male-dominated industries continues to grow.

However, Pew Research shows that about 64% of women still think there is much work to do as progress in equal rights remains not far enough. And many argue that COVID has set back women a decade on progress towards equity in the workplace.

Who’s Who: 1st Black Female CEO of Global Bio Database Aims For Inclusivity

After delivering her third child at 5:25 a.m. March 18, 2020, by 8 a.m., Erica Lee, the chief operating officer of Marquis Who’s Who, was on the phone with her remote team asking how they were doing with her newly devised COVID plan to work from home.

“I had her, she’s fine, now let’s get you working,” she says she told her team.

Aiming For Equal: CEO, Founder Works For Equity in Sustainability

Perhaps the seed for Lisa Ann Pinkerton’s career as founder and chair of Women In Cleantech & Sustainability has something to do with the fact that she was born in Hyden, Kentucky near the Daniel Boone National Forest.

Designing the Future: CEO's 7 Pillars to Successful Business Creation

Seven is considered a universal lucky number for those who believe in numerology.

Seven is an essential number in designing business strategy for Pamela Ayuso, CEO of Celaque, and author of Heptagram: the 7-Pillar Business Design System for the 21st Century.

Cruella At Work: 5 Tips to Manage Your Mean Boss In Person

It was easier perhaps to compartmentalize the effects your mean boss had on you when you were in your remote home office and only had to interact visually a few hours a day.

You could press “leave meeting.” You could delay opening an email you were dreading. You could relish the fact you were in slippers and yoga pants and any moment you could rush into the kitchen at whim, or even text a co-worker while a boss tantrum was in full bloom.

Power of Prioritizing: Latina CEO, Founder Advises, Inspires and Succeeds

Melissa Rodriguez, CEO of Mel Rodriguez & Co. and also Social Media Relations, was born and raised in the “witch city where everyone goes for Halloween.” That’s Salem, Mass., of course, where the history includes powerful and magical women.

New Ways To Be Strong: Addressing The Stress For Black Women at Work

Calling someone strong is supposed to be a compliment. For generations of Black women, expecting and demanding they always be strong—and silent—no matter what, is cause for concern.

Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, licensed clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, is out to change all of the stigmas, misconceptions and invisibility of Black women and redefine what it means to be a strong Black woman.

Now and Forever: Telemedicine Founder, CEO Changing The Health of Women 24/7

You’re never too young to start thinking about your health as an older woman.

Alicia Jackson, CEO, and Liya Brook, are co-founders of Evernow, a company focused on helping women live longer, healthier lives coping with menopause with a prescription-based model with telemedicine access to doctors and treatments 24/7.

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