New Ways To Be Strong: Addressing The Stress For Black Women at Work

Calling someone strong is supposed to be a compliment. For generations of Black women, expecting and demanding they always be strong—and silent—no matter what, is cause for concern.

Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, licensed clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, is out to change all of the stigmas, misconceptions and invisibility of Black women and redefine what it means to be a strong Black woman.

How Risky Are You? Discover Your Risk Profile To Be The Best You Can Be

At a time of deep uncertainty when it is risky to board an airplane or even shake hands, international best-selling author Michele Wucker wants you to understand that what you risk, who you are and how you behave personally and professionally around risk are inextricably linked.

Now and Forever: Telemedicine Founder, CEO Changing The Health of Women 24/7

You’re never too young to start thinking about your health as an older woman.

Alicia Jackson, CEO, and Liya Brook, are co-founders of Evernow, a company focused on helping women live longer, healthier lives coping with menopause with a prescription-based model with telemedicine access to doctors and treatments 24/7.

Payback Time: Gift Yourself & Moms Leading Forward For Mother’s Day

The pandemic has been particularly difficult for women with children in the workforce. Over more than a year of economic uncertainty, remote work, remote learning for children and largely unavailable childcare, women have toasted two Mothers Days—2020 and 2021.

It is time to celebrate the mothers among us who are facing, meeting and managing these challenges.

If you read one thing today, read this and #PutWomenAtTheCenter

Hello friends, today I have a special ask of you.

As you may know, over five million women’s careers have been disrupted by COVID-19.

To get back on track, we must #PutWomenAtTheCenter of the recovery.

Career success, Women Career SuccessGloria FeldtApril 26, 2021Covid-19Comment

Working With Baby: 8 Tips For WFH Moms

Last year it felt like everyone who could began working from home. The COVID-19 pandemic sped up already common work-from-home trends, and many parents found themselves suddenly balancing it all.

If you’re still working from home, there are things you can keep in mind to balance your work life and make sure that your baby or toddler is thriving. As a mother myself, I know firsthand how hard it can be to juggle work responsibilities with motherhood.

Frida Kahlo and Her: Author Shares A High Profile Life of Invisible Disability

Being the poster child for a movement or a cause is usually a metaphor, meaning that you embody the mission of an organization. For award-winning author, educator and disabilities justice advocate Emily Rapp Black, it was literally who she was.

In 1980, at six years old Black was chosen as the poster child for the March of Dimes, because a congenital birth defect resulted in her left leg being amputated. Her latest book, the critically acclaimed, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, explores Black’s ideological connection with the iconic Mexican artist who suffered from polio as a child, and later a leg amputation, using a prosthetic limb.

Power Up for DEI: Take The Lead Does It Differently

It’s far past time to walk the talk.

While many business conversations feature diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at companies in the U.S. and globally, putting these ideals into practice has been elusive, if not mismanaged and ignored.

Post-COVID Turn Around: Fashion Entrepreneur Designs Win

This is the better life her parents imagined, and it is of her creation.

Ahyoung Kim Stobar, the daughter of an opera singer mother and a nationally renowned professor, TV and radio show host father in Korea, came to the United States from Korea in 1983 as a nine-year-old with her two brothers and parents.

Spread Your Wings: Founder + Vision = Mission For Equal Pay Day and Beyond

Perhaps it is no coincidence that her high school classmate at Niles West High School in north suburban Chicago Was Merrick Garland, the recently appointed United States Attorney General.

It seems Suzanne Lerner similarly had her sights set on bigger issues, justice and a global mission. In high school, she participated in Project Wingspread, an exchange program with students from urban and suburban high schools.

Keep Going: 30 Somethings Old Enough To Shape The Future, Young Enough To Do It All Differently

Thirty years ago the extremely popular series, “thirtysomething,” aired its last network episode. But the series based on the angst of that age group about family, parenting, work, relationships, life, death and everything in between is revived again. ABC-TV committed to a reprisal with the original cast dealing with the angst of their own children, who are—you guessed it— thirty somethings.

Thirty somethings have a lot to say about how work, life and everything angst-producing is going. No one knows that better than author and journalist Kayleen Schaefer, who examines the professional and personal lives of her peers in her latest book, But You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood.

Moms Facing Hiring Challenges: COVID Fallout, Flex Time Needs Reshape Work

It’s a typical story. Accomplished entrepreneur with impressive degrees takes the child rearing detour and wanting to return to her career, realizes there are so many women like her who want flexible work and just can’t find any suitable positions.

On top of that, a global pandemic surges.

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