Female Rivalry: Are Women Hazing or Helping Other Women?

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When I asked the thirteen Female Firebrands in my book how they were treated by women at work, the result was an outpouring of stories and emotions. We often talk about the importance of sisterhood, but there’s a dark side of women working together that we don’t talk about nearly enough, and that’s female rivalry. […]

Supporting Working Parents During Back-to-School Season and Beyond

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Back-to-school season is an important time for company leadership and managers to be aware of the challenges faced by their employees who are also parents. The beginning of a new school year involves a number of stressful changes for working parents, such as more complex commutes and busier mornings getting children ready for school, lining […]

5 Podcasts About Women at Work to Change How You Show Up

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Professional women and their male advocates are constantly looking for ways to increase gender equality and speak out against sexism at work. There’s finally a lot being said on this topic, making it nearly impossible to keep up with the abundance of resources including books, articles, tweets, meet-ups, accelerator programs, and more. When you’re impatient […]

Why Gender Diversity is Good for Business

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Happy International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month! It’s an excellent day to celebrate women and their achievements. This is also the perfect opportunity to talk about why gender diversity is good for business. A new HBR study “When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive” powerfully demonstrates how gender equity is tied to business productivity […]

AnnieCannons Coding Bootcamp is Launching Brighter Futures for Human Trafficking Survivors

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AnnieCannons is a coding boot camp and development shop that uses a market-driven curriculum and product-based learning model to transform talented survivors of human trafficking into software professionals. Whether our clients need software development or data quality services, we provide high-quality and timely deliverables while helping our talented graduates gain access to careers in tech. […]

Gender Diversity Makes Leaders #BetterTogether: Here’s How

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I waited eagerly for Jonathan Sposato’s book Better Together to arrive. This is not a review but a collection of nuggets that resonated with me. Better Together is my first shot at reading and writing about one book a month in 2018 that will make me a better leader and contributor in my job, my community, and hopefully to […]

Words of Wisdom for 2018

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We reached out to a group of Seattle leaders to ask them for their thoughts, suggestions and wisdom for the upcoming 2018 year and here are their responses. I stay clear on my values – what I care most about – and how to turn my passions into action while also caring for myself.  For […]