The Future of the Workplace: Employee Autonomy By Janice Perkins, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor One of the biggest lessons in the workplace through the pandemic was that people will do their jobs from home when you are not watching over their shoulders. Shocking to many bosses was the idea that people are self-motivated and will work without prodding or watching.…
Six Women Who May Make History in the Midterms By Erin Spencer Sairam Women are poised to achieve new firsts in the 2022 midterm elections in November, potentially building on the history-making wave of lawmakers who won office in 2018, when Congress welcomed the first Muslim and first Native American congresswomen, and Arizona and Tennessee sent women to the Senate…
How Leaders Can Nurture Patience By Janice Perkins, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor In a world where we can get food delivered in a click, a new car can be delivered to our driveway without ever leaving the house and working from home is the new normal – how do we deal with waiting? How do we handle things that haven’t…
PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi On Compassionate Leadership By Jane Hanson Earlier this week I took the stage before 450 executive women from leading brands and retailers. But the women weren’t there to see me. The attendees at this year’s Women in Retail Leadership Summit filled the ballroom to hear the keynote interview with none other than the queen of “pop” herself, PepsiCo’s Indra…
National Geographic Society’s First Female CEO On Inclusivity By Marianne Schnall In 2020, the National Geographic Society appointed Jill Tiefenthaler as CEO—the first woman to hold this position in the organization’s 134-year history. Now she is forging a new path for women and other underrepresented voices at the Society and bolstering how it shapes the narrative on some of the world’s most…
How Bloom Founder Avery Francis Builds Inclusive Workplaces By Pauleanna Reid Thanks in part to the global stage of social media, conversations on race, identity and politics are more amplified today than ever before. Among the slew of other race-based tragedies to make headlines in recent years, the George Floyd protests of 2020 had casual Instagram users and big brands…
How former Intel exec Diane Bryant went from homeless teen to CEO of a multimillion-dollar start-up By Morgan Smith Like many 18-year-olds, Diane Bryant had no clue how she wanted to spend her life. It wasn’t until one of her classmates complimented Bryant on her number-crunching skills that she even considered a career in engineering. “I was sitting in Calculus…
By Janice Perkins, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor The things I know first-hand as a professional coach and as a coach of my daughter’s teenage volleyball team, is that there are many parallels. In fact, I learn more from coaching the girls! I’m a bit late on the Ted Lasso train but have fallen in love with the show and characters…
Janet Foutty On Strategies For Navigating Leadership By Marianne Schnall Women seeking to advance in leadership positions in today’s world face a complex and interconnected series of pressures, inequities and obstacles in both their careers and their lives. Women comprise less than a quarter of middle level managers, and that number shrinks even further at each rung of the corporate ladder. Part…
How To Overcome Self-Limiting Behaviors As Leaders By Janice Perkins, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor In an exercise I do with my clients, we discover our “tend tos”. What are the things we tend to do when we are in distress or overwhelmed? What are the things we tend to do that lock us up and keep us from our best…
