I grew up believing that feminism and equality had won. As the child of progressive professionals, I watched my mother build a successful international public service career. All around me women were wining. In politics, public service, business, at the highest levels of government and science. All my girlfriends were high-achievers and academically inclined and …
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The robots are coming for our jobs. That’s a line we’ve all heard at one point or another. And never more so than in the middle of a global pandemic and one of the worst recessions in memory. It is literally the opening line of Andrew Yang’s book The War on Normal People. The truth …
The Black Lives Matter movement has brought many deep-rooted societal issues to the surface not least of all, how under-represented, under-searched and under-funded Black people’s work, creativity, and businesses are. In 2018, Dell Gines authored a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kanasas City where he drew on a famous quote by Reid Hoffman, …
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If you’ve ever had a really great mentor, count yourself lucky. We all have mentors in some form all around us—our parents, teachers, friends, colleagues—many have something to teach us. Yet how many of them truly inspire us? All too often we confuse mentorship with advice, or someone more experienced than us, telling us what …
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Recently, I led a project where we interviewed a leader at a large corporation live on social media. The interview was aimed at millennial audiences as part of a recruitment tactic to showcase company culture and values. The interviewee in question was successful by all accounts – a leader of a large service line, a …
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Behind every successful person, is a team of people that have along the way helped them get to where they are. No man or woman is an island and none of us can go the distance alone. We all need someone in our corner, helping us see our blind-spots, opening the right doors, fostering the …
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