The third envelope in the class exercise at Goldman Sachs Small Business Program was the key.
Jennifer Beall Saxton, founder and CEO of Tot Squad, recalls the class exercise was to open three envelopes in succession. In the first envelope was a fake check for $50,000. The assignment was to figure out what as a start-up, you could do with that influx of cash. Saxton had plenty of ideas.
Read MoreIssue 195— March 28, 2022
The first time I gave a speech where I said “Be bold and carry out!” was to an audience of probably 1000 or so at the annual conference of WICT, Women In Cable Telecommunications. Smart, ambitious, accomplished women. And yet they still held no more than 20% of the top leadership positions in their industry.
Read MoreAs the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to heighten a world humanitarian crisis for the more than 10 million people who have fled their homes and the thousands who have been killed, a barrage of heartbreaking images and stories comes from the bunkers, battered fields and destroyed landscape of multiple cities.
What is also emerging is a distinct story of Ukrainian women who are showing the world their courage, tenacity and strength of leadership in adversity. They are demonstrating their leadership as soldiers, activists, diplomats, politicians, caretakers, mothers, daughters, volunteers and advocates for their country.
Read MoreIssue 194 — March 21, 2022
That’s a no-brainer, right? But I’m serious. Studies have shown that women lose between $400,000 and over $1,000,000 cumulatively over a lifetime of work in comparison with men in equal jobs with equal experience. You deserve to be paid fairly and equally to others with your qualifications.
Equal Pay Day was March 15 this year. Saying that women make on average 83 cents to men’s $1 is an oversimplification because there are huge variances based on race and ethnicity.
Read MoreShe has always liked moving fast.
At seven years old, growing up in greater London, Rita Kakati-Shah told her physician father and zoologist mother (who was also a classically trained singer and dancer) that she intended to be a formula race car mechanic or race car driver.
Read MoreIssue 193 — March 14, 2022
It’s progress to be sure that March 15 marks Equal Pay Day 2022. Women now earn 83% of what men earn for matched full time work.
Last year the annual recognition of when U.S. women had to work into 2021 before they earned what men earned what men did in just 12 months of 2020 occurred on March 24. The year before that, the day was March 31.
Read MoreFang Cheng would not change her name. Not to make it sound less “Asian,” not to make it what investors told her would make her job as a tech innovator and entrepreneur easier.
One advisor told her to change her first name to Fiona. And when she married, another advisor told her to take her husband’s last name, because it was Jewish and not Chinese.
Read MoreIssue 192 — March 8, 2022
My heart clutched as I watched Stephanie Ruhle interview Ukrainian Member of Parliament Kira Rudik on “The 11th Hour.”
I urge you to watch it a few times, not to become fearful but to observe how she speaks powerfully AND with empathy, humanity, and courage. These characteristics are what I mean when I say she leads like a woman.
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day is one day out of 365 to intentionally promote equity and fairness for all those on the globe identifying as female and to address the urgency of breaking deliberate and unconscious bias interrupting the path to gender equality. #BreakTheBias is the theme of IWD this year.
Read MoreBecause you are worth it. Because now is the time to rethink your life, your work, your purpose and take the action to shape the future you intention.
What the Great Reshuffle informed by the global pandemic has done to physical and remote workplace cultures, it has also done to you.
Read MoreIssue 191 — February 21, 2022
If you were eagerly awaiting the “Sex and the City” reboot, “And Just Like That,” perhaps you were one of many who concluded that you can’t go home again and expect it to be a satisfying visit.
I loved the iconic television series back in the day. Yet I can see that trying to update it while maintaining the elements that made it so much fun in its first go-round was an impossible task. Because its current iteration takes place in a culture chastened by a pandemic and awakened to deep seated racial injustice that makes the whiteness of the original four female friends, especially in one of the world’s most diverse cities, seem so out of place.
Read More“I was the kid who loved all kinds of things.”
As a girl growing up outside Trenton, New Jersey at Fort Dix, where her father was based in the U.S. Army, Lily McNair loved books—a biography on Harriet Tubman especially, plus a psychology textbook—and a chemistry set that taught her how to make little volcanoes.
The miniature chemistry set her parents gave her one Christmas ignited McNair’s love of science. Tubman’s story inspired her to live a life helping others. And the psychology textbook her father bought (though he had not attended college) showed her she wanted to pursue a career in psychiatry or psychology.
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