This article appeared on Medium.com. Written by Stephanie Chung. Although more and more women are becoming business owners, men are still dominating leadership roles. According to Catalyst, a nonprofit organization focused on accelerating progress for women through workplace inclusion, women make up 15.4 percent of CEO positions and 33 percent of senior management roles. Women are
This article appeared on Medium.com. Written by Naz Smyth. In this day and age, it is a sad truth to witness leadership roles and society’s ideals of female gender roles are not aligned. Leadership qualities are thought to be masculine, while those thought to follow are the feminine. Unfortunately, this outdated ideal is still in
This article was originally posted on Medium.com. Written by Lolly Daskal. Credibility is your best currency, with it you are solvent without you are bankrupt. There are many traits that can help you become successful. But if you’re going to encourage certain things within yourself, you might do better by focusing on those that
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Michelle Kolbe. To celebrate Women’s History Month, the morning radio program today was asking people to name a woman that has influenced them whom they’ve never met. This question got me thinking. What would you say? Who’s influenced you? The responses to the program ranged from Lady
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by the Clinton Foundation. Lustia Nkhoma is a role model for women and girls in Malawi, and a leader in agricultural development. Lustia manages the agricultural extension team with the Clinton Development Initiative (CDI) in central Malawi. With CDI, Lustia supervises and mentors CDI field officers who are responsible
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Alice Avery. We’ve talked a lot about work productivity — increasing yours, increasing your employees’, and tips for small businesses and sales reps. What is less discussed, but often at the root of productivity problems, is motivation. We all have “down days” where we just… can’t. Easy tasks become dull, monotonous time-sucks. We
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Joanne Tombrakos. I love quotes. Especially the inspiring kind. The ones that make me stop and pause and I can feel resonating within me. I love quotes so much that I keep a special notebook in which I write them down and can go to when I
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Gabrielle Pelicci. My transition from Healer to Entrepreneur is a fairly recent one. Even though I’ve been self-employed for two decades, I’ve never considered myself a “business woman.” In fact, I’ve often thought of “business people” as greedy, self-serving, entitled or power-hungry — a clan of Voldemorts
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Lolly Daskal. Intelligent and successful leaders all do one thing better than anyone else. They are constantly asking themselves questions to stay relevant and insightful. Whether you’re running a company, heading up a startup, or leading a team, asking yourself these questions every day will help you get the
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Gabrielle Pelicci. When I scroll through my newsfeed on Facebook or Instagram, there are lots of glamorous photos of wellness entrepreneurs lounging on their laptops in their perfect apartments or doing inversions at sunset on a rocky beach. Yes, there is plenty of travel and major time spent on
