What can you do when you’re the target of the office bully? The office bully can come from anywhere. A superior, a subordinate and especially a peer. They can be anyone. A man, a woman, a workmate or someone you barely know. There’s only one thing all bullies have in…

There are a LOT of books out there on women in professional settings. I don’t read them all, or recommend many, though all of them are worth exploring for new ideas and insights. I am recommending that women and men both read The Power Code: More Joy. Less Ego. …

White women are used to experiencing unconscious bias and various kinds of gender discrimination from white men. It comes in the blatant forms like consistent exclusion from important meetings, and it comes in less obvious disguises like the expectation that you’ll pick up the burdens of “non promotable” and “overhead”…

I’m not a cryer, but that doesn’t mean I’ve never found myself crying at work — or wanting to very, very, very, badly. Harsh judgements, bullies, layoffs, no sleep, big risks gone sideways, bad personal news crashing into our workdays…there are many good reasons that tears are an appropriate response…

Making a career move is an exciting time. It’s also the best time to increase your salary and your standing with your employer. This is true with internal promotions and (especially) moves to a new employer. It’s true for W-2 employees as well as 1099 freelancers. When I help my…

I feel like we’ve been in “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 101” class for decades now. Starting more than 30 years ago organizations first funded the “D” (diversity). Then when those programs didn’t diversify workforces enough, they added the “I” (inclusion) and more recently the “E” (equity) to bring racial and…

We hear a lot about executive presence, which is a fuzzy term to describe the steadiness, focus and strategic perspective that leaders must possess to instill confidence while navigating the stormy seas of leadership. But as I work with clients on this, I find that just because you know it…

From the outside it seems that getting rewards, recognition and greater responsibility should make us MORE confident. And it usually does — at first. …

There are many ways to get stuck in your career. You can find yourself feeling unmotivated, frustrated at a lack of progress, confused about what your goals should be, or uncertain about how to motivate your team, manage your workload or get your mojo back. When you hit a wall…