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Read More“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.”
Read MoreFor 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.”
Read MoreDonna 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.
Read More“Fish don’t know they’re in the water.”
They just swim.
That is a saying and a mindset that Tracey Zimmerman, the newly appointed and first female president and CEO of Robots & Pencils, an international digital innovation firm, takes to heart.
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 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 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.
Read MoreShe will be Black, female and serving on the highest court in the land; the first time in its 232-year history. Coincidentally, the nomination will be official at the end of February, Black History Month and fulfills a 2019 campaign promise by President Joe Biden.
Read MoreAs millions of women exit their jobs—by choice or by default—and leadership doesn’t seem to get it, where does this leave women in the workforce?
They want flexibility, transparency, accountability in their jobs and from their leadership.
Read MoreNow vice president and head of strategic partnerships at Amex Digital Lab, Stephanie Schultz recalls it was not all that long ago starting her career at American Express, when she thought maybe it was time to get an American Express card herself.
And now she spearheads the innovation hub at this Fortune 100 company, creating new ways for customers to interact with Amex digitally across all platforms and apps.
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