What’s Stopping You from Reinventing Your Career? By Heather Cairns-Lee and Bill Fischer A recent Microsoft study of 30,000 people revealed that 46% of workers are considering a major career pivot or transition after the Covid years. For many, this search goes beyond just a change of role and into the realm of personal renewal or reinvention. In our experience, many of the…
5 Ways to Create a More Diverse, Engaged, and Inclusive Workplace Subtle practices that will be virtually invisible to most people. By Marcel Schwantes The related ideas of diversity, engagement, and inclusivity float around boardrooms and training sessions with such fluffy, ambiguous meanings that the discussion often undermines the goals of caring leaders. So how do caring leaders cultivate an inclusive workplace, one with…
Why Coaching Is Important During Each Stage of Company Growth Coaching creates exponential growth, and organizational stages in startups come fast and furious. However, each of these stages requires a different form of leadership. By Matt Auron As organizations grow and mature, they go through predictable stages, each of which requires a different form of leadership in order to drive success at each stage. Coaching ensures…
How to Feel Less Depleted by the End of the Workweek So you’re not living for the weekend (and too exhausted to enjoy it). By Nikki Campo In my previous job as a strategy consultant, I felt lucky when I managed to sleep more than four or five hours a night. During the workday, I subsisted on our office stash of…
How to Build Credibility and Trust With Effective Content Creation Connect with your audience with a content creation strategy that increases brand awareness and guarantees a loyal customer base. By Erica McMillan Anyone can start a business and boost sales with traditional marketing methods, but to build a brand, you need more than products or services — you need a voice. Hundreds of brands have used powerful branding to attract attention and entice people…
How To Use Your Passions To Connect With Others And Grow Your Personal Brand Your passions are fuel, they give you energy and make you attractive to those around you when you integrate them into what you do. By William Arruda Passions. They’re one of the six drivers of your personal brand (along with values, superpowers, differentiators, purpose and goals). Your passions are those…
How one Minnesota banking exec views industry changes and opportunities for women By Hannah Mitchell When Angela O’Neill first entered the financial services industry in the 1990s, few women filled top roles, especially within commercial finance. However, through her perseverance, Angela has advanced to be a commercial and corporate banking leader and a champion for women and other underrepresented groups…
Hitting the Books: AI could help shrink America’s gender wage gap By Andrew Tarantola Women have faced gender-based discrimination in the workforce throughout history, denied employment in all but a handful of subservient roles, regularly ignored for promotions and pay raises — and rarely ever compensated at the same rates as their male peers. This long and storied socioeconomic tradition…
Issa Rae’s Best Career Advice: Don’t Be Afraid of Being Labeled a ‘Difficult’ Person to Work With By Morgan Smith Issa Rae has built the kind of entertainment career people dream of: co-creating, co-writing and starring in a hit HBO series; landing a multi-million dollar film and TV deal; and building her own media company. But the 37-year-old actor, writer…
Women in law – Table of Experts By Albany Business Review Editors The Albany Business Review held a panel discussion recently on the topic of women in law. Panelists included Shalini Natesan, principal partner, The Towne Law Firm, P.C.; Christina Watson Meier, founder, Meier Law Firm, PLLC; and Jami Durante Rogowski, partner, Block, Longo, LaMarca & Brzezinski, P.C. The discussion…
