The biggest complaint I get from women kicking ass in corporate, is how that ass-kicking doesn’t seem to be enough. How they must also engage in office politics to move up on the career ladder. How office politics are stupid. And icky. And difficult. *** Girl, same… I...

YOU are in charge If you feel that others (your boss or your company or *waves arms* the economy) are in charge of your career, let me tell you something you might not like.  They are not.  YOU are in charge of your career.  YOU are at the steering wheel.  YOU get to...

Perhaps half of the women that I work with, are not looking for a redirection of their career. What they want is a straight-up promotion.  Often times, a promotion would simply mean aligning practice with theory, i.e. they are already doing all the work and carry the...

I often get pushback when I share stories of my WINners’ successes in changing their lives and careers through the WIN program. Surely it isn’t possible to: Move industries… AND Move type of role… AND  Get a significant promotion… AND Get an even bigger pay increase…...

I often get into little interwebby spats with – usually white – men who try to school me on gender biases and the gender pay gap. Their line of thinking tends to be that women would get paid exactly the same as men if only they worked full-time and chose career paths...

If the conversations I have been having recently with corporate women about their careers are anything to go by, this really has been the Summer of Our Discontent… The unhappiness seems to fall largely in two buckets. First, women are unhappy that post-Covid,...

May I gently ask the person organising the women’s events at large corporations, to ask themselves the question why their executive people only grant them paltry budgets? What does it say about their senior management that they only budget teeny tiny amounts for their...

The WIN Way program is NOT career coaching. The WIN Way program is NOT negotiation advice. Surprised? You wouldn’t be alone. When I tell people this, I often get raised eyebrows. After all, doesn’t the WIN Program help women in corporate roles get the roles and...