'leadership' tagged blog posts in Career Bliss - Forbes Leadership

As I focus more on my success coaching work that helps women achieve their BIG dreams and visions, I’ve realized that the essential ingredients to this work are helping people understand with absolute, unabashed clarity exactly what their dream is, distill it down to the “right” essence, then birth it through steps that align with their passions, values, needs and wants.  To launch our big dreams, we need a continual...

In my current exploration of women’s leadership in all business arenas, and in researching how women are thriving in a wide range of professional settings, I had the pleasure of speaking recently with Aassia Haq, Chief Marketing Officer - MBO Partners and Former CEO - ALUMRISE, Inc.

Aassia is steeped in the business of supporting the success of independent consultants and solopreneurs through her work with MBO Partners, which...

In response to my Forbes, Huffington Post and AARP Work Reimagined posts, I hear one type of comment over and over again, more than any other, and it goes something like this: “I just don’t know what I want.  Despite all my efforts, I can’t figure it out what I want to do.”

I find this an amazing phenomenon - that so many Americans have lost touch with who...

In the past ten years of coaching and training professional women, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders, I’ve had a window into the lives of women who are dreaming big and wanting more, and getting it.  Through this lens, I’ve observed several key actions and behaviors that continually pave the way for greater success and expansion.  I’ve also witnessed and experienced behaviors and beliefs that sabotage success, and guarantee failure.

No matter...

In my career consulting practice, I work with mid- to senior-level professional women in both the corporate arena, as well as in entrepreneurial, small business and private practice ventures.  Every day, I see recurring patterns and themes around how women chronically undervalue or undermine themselves, leaving money on the table and sabotaging their own growth and success. 

While I’m not an academic social researcher, I have seen through my own research...

For some time, I’ve been following inspiring women leaders, entrepreneurs, business movers-and- shakers, writers and others on the cutting edge of thought leadership, and I’m still awed and amazed at how much there is out in the world to be inspired by. 

In my line of work as a women’s career coach, executive trainer and writer, I’m fortunate to connect with women like Whitney Johnson and Judy Robinett who...

Successful entrepreneur Jackie Baptist and independent film producer Elizabeth Dell announced this week their upcoming new documentary film She Means Business dedicated to shedding important light on the major triumphs, experiences and insights of women entrepreneurs today.  The film, which is in the fundraising stage via kickstarter, explores the key challenges female entrepreneurs face and offers education, inspiration and information to help women overcome these challenges and move forward...

A part of Kathy Caprino’s  ForbesWoman series “Entrepreneurial Women Rocking the World” on her Forbes "Career Bliss" blog

At last week’s inspiring National Association of Professional Women’s 2nd annual networking conference, I had the opportunity to attend the keynote presentation of Sara Blakely, Founder of Spanx.  In her one-hour talk, Sara highlighted her fascinating journey from launching a start-up with $5000 in savings to becoming the youngest self-made...

I’ve heard over and over in the past several years frequent reference to the idea that professional women aren’t as ambitious as men.   Disappointingly, I even heard Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook (whom I deeply admire) mention this reported “lack of ambition” in women on The Charlie Rose show recently. To Mr. Rose she declared, “Until women are ambitious as men, they’re not going to achieve as...