You Need To Calm Down: 6 Ways To Stop Workplace Drama

Taylor Swift in her newly released video, “You Need To Calm Down,” sends a catchy message about avoiding naysayers and haters, a message that everyone in the workplace needs to hear and abide.

Creating A Workplace for Disability-Led Fairness + Inclusion = Good Business

Ali Stroker was the first actor to use a wheelchair who won as featured actress in a musical at the recent Tony Awards, and she also won hearts and minds for her acceptance speech, not just her performance in “Oklahoma!”

Revolving Door? How To Reverse High Turnover At Your Workplace

There is a lot of coming and going at some workplaces—especially for women.

Get To The Point: Why Leading With Purpose Matters

Most of us would agree that there needs to be a larger point to our work, a big picture as to why we do what we do.

Why Female Fraud Is So Rare: 5 Elizabeth Holmes Lessons

Most everyone would see prison time as a big deterrent to hatching a fraudulent business. But on the other hand, someone may see $9 billion in valuation as a big incentive to keep the lies inflating.

Is It OK To Hire Your Child? Why Nepotism Hurts and Helps

The recent news of the university admissions scandal perhaps has many amazed how some students with a career already laid out can skip classes for a trip to Fiji. But for the rest of us, helping out a relative—whether that is a son, daughter or cousin—with an internship, recommendation or entry level position is a family requirement.

Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonMarch 22, 2019business, Career, communication, family, Michele WeldonComment

Just Curious: Is Your Workplace A Curiosity Enhancer or Barrier?

The old adage that curiosity kills the cat doesn’t address a resurge in thinking that curiosity fosters creativity and innovation and that being curious is a very good thing.

Stay In Your Lane? A Guide For Women Leaders to Speak Up and Out

Sometimes you have to speak up when you know what you know. Take a stand. Create change. Because it matters.

Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonNovember 16, 2018Change, gender bias, Michele Weldon, women in the workplace, women leadersComment

Say Yes! 7 Tips To Eliminate Negativity in Your Workplace

I recently led an all-day seminar where a few people in the room exuded negativity starting from complaints about the breakfast and continuing relentlessly regardless of topic, discussion or activity. Cynical, overly critical of colleagues, adding only contradictions and challenges, they each had nary a kind word for anyone.

Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonNovember 13, 2018business, Michele Weldon, Positivity, tips, women in the workplaceComment

Find Your Cru: Author, CEO Tiffany Dufu Offers Her Epiphanies

It was a Tiffany Epiphany. Years ago while she was watching a phase of the annual 23-day Tour De France bicycle race on television, Tiffany Dufu, women’s leadership and author of Drop the Ball, says it suddenly occurred to her that what looked like an individual sport was really not that at all.