3 Questions for Coursera’s Alexandra Urban By Joshua Kim When I learned that Dr. Alexandra Urban recently completed her EdD (Doctor of Education) while working full-time at Coursera, I had to hear more. Alexandra graciously answered my questions about her graduate research, her work at Coursera, and her advice for others hoping to follow a similar career path. Q1: Tell…
3 Mega Successful Women On How They Got Esports Jobs By Patricia Karounos It’s a refrain many gamers have likely heard once or twice after a few too many hours spent in front of a screen: “It’s not like you can make a career out of playing video games.” There may have been a time when this was true, but…
3 Habits The Wealthiest People Practice Daily That Most Others Don’t By Jari Roomer I used to be broke. Dead broke. A bad gambling addiction separated me from my life savings (over $15,000) within 12 months. That’s when I decided to study how money works. I read every personal finance and investing book I could get my hands on. Fast-forward…
A career in the skies: More women going into aviation By Kirsten Kanja When Ruth Karauri, a Kenyan pilot, skilfully landed a plane at Heathrow Airport, London amid a storm, the news spread quickly. Netizens were in awe of her brilliance and how she diligently accomplished the task, heaping praises on the professional aviator. But what was more intriguing about…
Women in Small Business: First Woman-Owned Brewery Women in Small Business: Olive Pit Brewing’s Christine Cain opened the first 100% woman-owned brewery in Maine By Christopher Wheelock, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine Christine Cain didn’t just wake up one morning and decide she was going to open a brewery. Rather, it was a long and convoluted journey that brought her to…
20 Powerful Women in Global Entertainment From Lagos to London, these execs are challenging the status quo, paving the way for the next generation and shaping what the world watches. By THR Staff By several metrics, 2022 has been a good year for women in the international film and TV business. UCLA’s annual Hollywood Diversity Report found the percentage of…
Succeeding in RE Development When You’re Not a Man By Nichole Whiteley Advice From Those Who Have Persevered and Succeeded We asked the five women profiled for this feature about how to succeed in the real estate development field, but much of their advice applies to any career field. The five women profiled in this feature each took different paths…
Melinda Gates Wants to Create an Alternative to Silicon Valley Billionaire Melinda French Gates wants to create an alternative to Silicon Valley: ‘To change it would be incredibly hard’ By Megan Sauer Melinda French Gates wants to shake up the tech industry, starting in Silicon Valley. The billionaire philanthropist told Fortune this week that the goal of her venture capital firm Pivotal…
How to Deal with Stress Amid Changing Workloads By Karren Brady Q) I enjoy my job, but I find it quite stressful, especially when we are busy – the workload tends to run in peaks and troughs, so sometimes we don’t have much to do and sometimes we have too much! In my annual review, the feedback my manager gave…
College Students Draw First-Hand Career Insight By Kenya King Three Chevron Corp. engineers met with 15 Perimeter College engineering students recently to give first-hand advice and encouragement about advancing their education and careers. The engineers—all women—spent more than two hours reviewing the students’ resumes and answering student questions about coursework—as well as giving background about their own jobs at the…