Sizeism at Work: What You Need To Know To Make Workplaces Safe, Inclusive

It’s holiday party time at work.

If you are spending your days in an office, or you are going in from your remote office for the special in-person occasion of a year’s end celebration, there will be an abundance of buffets, holiday treats and goodies.

That can be wonderful and it can also be dreadful, particularly if you are labelled as overweight, a person in a larger body and fatshaming, fatphobia and sizeism are prevalent in your workplace culture. Subtle or overt comments such as, “Thats a full plate!” or “Why not try the fruit instead of the cookies?” may make anyone want to opt out of any celebration.

Sizeism is defined as bias or discrimination against an individual based on their weight or size. Women and weight is a toxic workplace stew with millions affected.

Changing the Workplace, Career success, MediaMichele WeldonDecember 8, 2023Sizeism, Workplace Culture, InclusivityComment

Yay Or Nay: 5 Questions To Help You Decide To Take Promotion Or Pass

Z friend was recently agonizing to a handful of us at a party about her great job offer in the company where she has worked for seven years. The offer included a title promotion, raise, cost of living expenses, global travel and high visibility.

What was the problem?

She would have to move almost immediately to New York from Chicago, a city where she enjoyed her personal and professional life with a great apartment, positive workplace culture plus family and friends close by.

Changing the Workplace, Career success, Career choices, Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonDecember 1, 2023career path, career goalsComment

Wear the Shirt of Change: Representing the Power of Women's Leadership This Giving Tuesday

Issue 246 — November 27, 2023

No doubt you have noticed that Giving Tuesday 2023 is today, November 27. I’m challenging you to share what’s on the shirt of your convictions about women’s leadership.

My personal favorite shirt is historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s well-used quote, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” But today I’m wearing the shirt designed by Michael Stars for this Giving Tuesday.

The SumGloria FeldtNovember 27, 2023Giving Tuesday, Women's LeadershipComment

Something’s Gotta Give: 6 Ways For GivingTuesday To Benefit Women’s Changing Philanthropy

More women give. But women give less. And the causes and organizations strictly benefiting women and girls receive a tiny percentage overall. That needs to change.

Yes, women are more frequent givers, as 65 % of donors on GivingTuesday are women, according to Forbes. But the sites and causes that cater to women and girls earn less than 2% of all donations in the U.S., according to Philanthropy Women.

Why the disparity?

Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonNovember 24, 2023#GivingTuesday, PhilanthropyComment

Triple Win: 3 Ways to Succeed Owning Multiple Businesses as a Female Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship is a dream that many individuals desire to pursue for a variety of reasons, from acting on a passion project to leaving a job that no longer aligns with their career goals. After the pandemic, entrepreneurship boomed – with women having a major part in leading that charge.

Female entrepreneurship, from startups to buying existing businesses, has continued to change the business world landscape, and women taking the entrepreneurial charge has been the biggest difference between 2019 and 2023 business rates.

Christena GardunoNovember 22, 2023Comment

Why Women’s Leadership Is The Secret To Family Economic Security

Issue 245 — November 20, 2023

Scrolling social media, as I do far too much, I saw this post:

Women Career Choices, Women Career Success, The SumGloria FeldtNovember 20, 2023Finance/Money, Financial IndependenceComment

Turn The Page: 11 Books You Need To Read Now And Give This Holiday Season

We can always use a new book, life approach, history lesson, toolkit or bible of strategies to improve ourselves and how we think and behave as leaders. Reading and learning is what great leaders do.

At a time when books and the prohibition of books makes news across the country, it is necessary to maintain reverence for books as a way to create, recreate and reimagine our lives.

Pink knows books are essential gifts to ourselves, our children and all others as she announced recently she is giving away thousands of banned books at her concerts, in cooperation with PEN America and poet laureate Amanda Gorman.

Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonNovember 17, 2023books, Leadership Books, Life AdviceComment

Are You OK? 5 Keys To Deal Effectively With Trauma in The Workplace

Sometimes it is impossible to keep calm and carry on.

With so many affected by catastrophes globally, nationally and locally that are top of mind, as well as additional personal considerations and tolerated toxic behaviors, learning how to effectively handle the impact on yourself, colleagues, clients and customers is a necessary skill.

Changing the Workplace, Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonNovember 10, 2023stress, trauma, Leadership Skills, Work AdviceComment

Rising To The Top: Founder, CEO on Supporting All WOC To Succeed

You might call it Ellevator’s elevator speech.

Ayesha Whyte, founder and CEO of Ellevator, a private membership organization designed to enhance the skills and opportunities for women of color, says, “We don’t want to look back and see a gap because no one helped move women along.”

Since its launch last month, Whyte says she wants members to know, “There is a place for you if your heart is in nonprofit or corporate. We wish we would have had something like this.“

Michele WeldonNovember 3, 2023Comment

Why I Couldn’t NOT Say This

Issue 244— November 30, 2023

On Thursday morning, October 26th, in the sunny Arizona desert setting, my heart was full of joy because my nonprofit organization, Take The Lead, committed to intersectional gender parity in leadership, had finally risen from pandemic setbacks to launch a cohort of our most powerful and impactful leadership program. It’s called 50 Women Can Change the World, and this cohort is our first for entrepreneurs.

The SumGloria FeldtOctober 30, 2023Comment

Scared of AI? 13 Keys To Leading & Succeeding With AI

ChatGPT will be one year old in November. In its first two months of operation, there were more than 100 million users. It now has 1.6 billion users. Open AI, its parent company, launched in 2015 and has a valuation of $29 billion.

Some leaders, managers, academics and professionals in all niches are scared. Others are eager to embrace the power of this technology.

Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tips, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonOctober 26, 2023AI, Technology, ChatGPT, business-strategyComment

Great News: Women & Minority Owned Small Businesses Succeeding Now

Finally. We all could use positive news about women business owners in the post-pandemic, pre-recession universe. Thankfully, it’s here.

“Women business owners have a positive business outlook… Most expect revenue growth over the next 12 months, and a majority feel equipped to weather a potential recession.” According to a new Bank of America report, 2023 Women & Minority Business Owner Spotlight.

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