Credit Where Credit Is Due: Co-Founder Helps Employees Create Wealth
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Co-Founder Helps Employees Create Wealth

By the time Einat Steklov moved to the United States from Israel in 1996, she had already served in Israeli Defense Forces, graduated from Tel Aviv University Law School and worked in a corporate law firm.

But she couldn’t get a phone line because she needed a credit history in the U.S.

“I recall sitting there thinking I need a credit card. I made good money, my husband made good money and we could not establish credit,” says Steklov, founder and CEO of Kashable, a lending model offered through employers for employees to have easy access to credit.

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Career success, Changing the Power Par..., Finance/MoneyMichele Weldonwomen in finance, Finance/Money, female CEOComment
Shades of Gray: Leadership Advancement Tips From Former Ukraine Ambassador
Shades of Gray: Leadership Advancement Tips From Former Ukraine Ambassador

“All of a sudden whispers become large shouts,” Marie Yovanovitch, former ambassador to Ukraine, told a crowd recently at the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Talking about her politically-forced firing from her position as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in 2019 after 33 years of foreign service and three ambassador posts, Yovanovitch adds, “This is not anything I imagined would happen to me.”

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Career success, Change Leadership, Women Career Success, ParityMichele WeldonUkraine, Women Leaders, Women In PoliticsComment
Don’t Stop Believing: Anita Hill’s Mission To End Gender Violence Continues
Don’t Stop Believing: Anita Hill’s Mission To End Gender Violence Continues

“It is like boiling the ocean.”

Anita Hill, lawyer, advocate, author and professor, explained to a crowd at the recent Chicago Humanities Festival that the enormity of the problem of gender violence in this country is as vast as an ocean. And the process of addressing and eliminating all its forms is as complicated and slow as heating such a vast body of water.

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Changing the Workplace, Gender Parity, Changing the Power Par...Michele WeldonGender Violence, women in the workplace, social justiceComment
Open The Mirrored Door: Key Tips For Building Your Path To Leadership
Open The Mirrored Door: Key Tips For Building Your Path To Leadership

For a generation or more, women in leadership in the workplace have focused on breaking the glass ceiling.

Now, says Ellen Taaffe, Director of Women’s Leadership Programs at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, it’s time to focus on breaking through what she calls the “mirrored door.”

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Career success, Career choices, Ambition / Intention, Change Leadership, Changing the WorkplaceMichele Weldoncareer path, Career Choice, women leadership Comment
Strength Finder: How Founder, CEO Turned Illness Into Powerful Global Effort To Impact Lives
Strength Finder: How Founder, CEO Turned Illness Into Powerful Global Effort To Impact Lives

Donna Cryer’s mother wanted a white picket fence surrounding an idyllic space for her children to grow up in Waterbury, Conn.

“We did indeed have a white picket fence,” says Cryer, founder, president and CEO of the Global Liver Institute, whose parents moved to Connecticut during the late 1960s when they were recruited as African American schoolteachers for local public schools.

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Ambition / Intention, Career choices, Career success, Change Leadership, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonHealthcare, Public Health, black women in leadershipComment
It’s My Birthday and I’ve Got a Gift for You (Hint: Don’t Stress)
It’s My Birthday and I’ve Got a Gift for You (Hint: Don’t Stress)

Issue 197 — April 18, 2022

I got so many flowers on my big 8–0 April 13 that I jokingly asked whether I had died. I’m incredibly fortunate to be alive and high kicking as I veer into Betty White territory. I’m looking forward to people thinking everything I do that makes any sense at all is adorable. You know, like they do with preschoolers who use three-syllable words.

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The SumGloria FeldtTake The Lead Event, Virtual Event, Mental Health, self careComment
The Joy and the Irony of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
The Joy and the Irony of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Issue 196 — April 11, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Her name is already embedded in the annals of history as the first Black woman confirmed to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.

After 232 years and 115 previous sitting justices, Judge Brown Jackson will become Justice Brown Jackson when she is sworn in at the end of the Court’s current term.

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The SumGloria FeldtSupreme Court, black women in leadership, Racial Equity, Power ToComment