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Starbucks – Kudos and Caution
Why Your Unconscious Bias Training Isn’t Working Will your company be the next front page story in the news? Will you be the next Starbucks, Google, Monster, or Uber? What are you doing to drive real change and an understanding of diversity and inclusion deep into middle management and throughout your organization to customer-facing employees? In the wake of…
Read MoreMen: Make Equal Pay Day Your Epiphany Day
Equal Pay Day Like most male leaders, I didn’t know what I didn’t know. Not just about this “women’s” thing, but about all the things that we, as male leaders, pay little to no attention to on a daily basis, such as sexism, bias, and “white male privilege.” During the past 15+ years, I’ve come…
Read MoreThe 4 Things Your Company Needs to Do to Advance Women — Lead!
Leadership for advancing women must start at the top. 78% of business leaders rate retention and engagement as urgent or important, but only 15% believe they are ready to address it. – Deloitte 2017 Global Human Capital Trends Leadership for advancing women must start at the top. Ask yourself one simple question. Do my leadership…
Read MorePodcast | Interview with Wine Enthusiast
I was honored to be invited to speak again at the Women of the Vine and Spirits Global Symposium in Napa Valley. This three-day event is dedicated to promoting women in the industry. While at the conference, Wine Enthusiast Magazine, Managing Editor and Tasting Director, Lauren Buzzeo conducted interviews for the Goddesses of the Grape to create…
Read MoreWhat Are You Doing to Make Your Company Fair and Equal To All – Today And Every Day?
How Will You #PressforProgress? This Is What I’m Doing. #PressforPreogress is the 2018 theme for International Women’s Day. It’s an apt theme and one that encourages each of us to ask what are we (and the organizations we represent) are doing to accelerate gender equity. According to a 2017 World Economic Forum study, gender parity is over 200…
Read MoreThe Leadership Imperative to Advancing Women and Engaging Men
Podcast – School for Startups Radio Recently, I sat down with Jim Beach, host of AMFM247 Radio’s School of Startups for Radio to talk about the leadership imperative to advance women and engage men in the process. To listen to the interview/podcast click below: To achieve gender equity companies must review their strategy, culture and the role…
Read MoreIs Monster the New Uber? The Similarities are Staggering.
Sexual harassment and hostile work environments continue to dominate the news Last February, I wrote the opinion piece, Five Lessons Companies Should Learn From Uber About Sexual Harassment, for HuffPost. At that time I noted, “Today, the bulls-eye falls on Uber and Silicon Valley, but tomorrow it may be your industry or company.” Nearly a year…
Read MoreCan the #MeToo Movement Make Real Changes in the Workplace?
BOLD TV interview with Jeffery Tobias Halter Do you think the #MeToo movement is making real changes in the workplace? Strategist and President of YWomen, Jeffery Tobias Halter stopped by #BoldBiz to discuss gender inequalities in the workplace and the impact of the MeToo movement. For years, Jeffery been advocating that it’s time to stop trying…
Read MoreIs Your Women’s Leadership Strategy Sitting on a One-Legged Stool?
Why women’s leadership initiatives at most companies fail to drive real change. 10 Tools to Drive Real Change for Women in the Workplace It’s 2018, and there is still a lot of work to be done to achieve women’s equity in the workplace. In fact, progress — real progress — in advancing women in most organizations has…
Read More2018: A Cultural Turning Point for Women
As #TimesUp puts Hollywood on notice, is your company ready to advance the conversation about women in the workplace? As Oprah Winfrey noted in her passionate acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award: So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when…
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