by BalanceGirl | Sep 1, 2017 | Balanced Leadership, Equality, Relationships, Women and Leadership, Women and Success, Women's Choices, Women's Code, Women's Issues
TWO MILLION people read my status update about not mistaking LinkedIn for a dating site. I posted it in response to an encounter I’d had earlier that day. What happened was I received a valid and reasonable connection request from a prospective client, and I accepted...
by BalanceGirl | Aug 17, 2017 | Balanced Leadership, Business, Career, Women and Leadership, Women In Business, Women's Code
This is the question that I will be answering live during an interview with Ika and Aygun, both of whom are trailblazers and Femigrants. Ika works at Facebook and she asked me if I would share my story on Facebook Live straight from their headquarters in Menlo Park....
by BalanceGirl | Aug 9, 2017 | Balanced Leadership, Business, Career, Career/Success, Women and Leadership, Women and Success, Women In Business, Women's Code
Women—one of my favorite subjects! Yet, even I will admit that it wasn’t always this way. I certainly didn’t grow up liking other women much, and in the early days of my career I avoided women as much as I could. Women are Complicated Or so I thought. Over the...
by BalanceGirl | Aug 1, 2017 | Balanced Leadership, Business, Equality, Leadership, Training & Leadership, Women and Leadership, Women In Business, Women's Code
Yes, you read that right. Equality is not a belief, it’s an action. The road to equality is bumpy. Most of us know it’s the right thing to do, but why then is it so difficult to get there? In my previous article I examined some of the obvious conscious and...
by BalanceGirl | Jul 25, 2017 | Balanced Leadership, Business, Equality, Training & Leadership, Women and Leadership, Women In Business, Women's Code
Just mentioning the word “equality” gets people going. Some men roll their eyes and moan, “Here comes another feminist to tell me what I’m doing wrong.” Some women (especially Millennial women) insist that inequality doesn’t affect their careers. Some Baby...
by BalanceGirl | Jun 21, 2017 | Business, Career, Conflict Resolution, Growth Architecture, Leadership, Women and Leadership, Women In Business
Is This Unconscious or Conscious Bias? Susan Chira’s article certainly hit a nerve. The Universal Phenomenon of Men Interrupting Women concludes that “academic studies and countless anecdotes make it clear that being interrupted, talked over, shut down or penalized...
