On the Brink

JANUARY 12, 2022

Christine Grant, center, with Lisa Bluder, right, coach of Iowa women’s basketball, and Jaime Printy Brandt, a former Iowa player and teacher at an elementary school named for Grant in North Liberty, Iowa. Credit. Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen /USA TODAY NETWORK. Recently on January 6, 2022, the NY Times published an article honoring the recently deceased Christine Grant, the University of Iowa’s first women’s athletic director and a pioneer who helped shape the 1972 Title IX legislation,

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On the Brink

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Did you know that today, women own 40% of businesses in the US, which amounts to 12 million businesses? One way of looking at this is to say, wow, 12 million is a lot of businesses. But I am tempted to look at it another way. Why only 40%? Along the same lines, only 20% of funded companies have women founders, according to a 2019 EoY Diversity Report.

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On the Brink

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Do you find yourself taking care of everyone else in your life before you? Do you feel guilty when you do something for yourself? Would you like to re-set your life's direction but you're not sure where to start? Now there's a way to do that, and all it takes is a few minutes a day for 30 days. Introducing Time to Take Care of You: 30-Day Challenge.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

With all that's going on in the world today, and in your own world, do you sometimes find yourself feeling down? Overwhelmed? Wishing there was a way to feel happy, joyful, fulfilled? Me too. That's why I was thrilled to be inviewed recently by Thrive Global for their interview series “ Finding Happiness and Joy During Turbulent Times.” They're talking with experts, business leaders, authors and mental health professionals who share lessons from their research and experience about how to find ha

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On the Brink

JULY 22, 2021

Are you ready to play a role in the future of women? Now you can. A great opportunity is before you. I would like to personally invite you to join me and an amazing group of thought leaders, corporate leaders and entrepreneurs at the Women Business Collaborative (WBC) third Annual Summit: Empowering Through Gender and Diversity. Register Now!

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On the Brink

JULY 21, 2021

For many years I've been affiliated with Vistage International , the world's largest executive coaching organization, giving talks and leading workshops on topics ranging from culture change to Blue Ocean Strategy. Recently, I was thrilled to be a recipient of the inaugural Vistage Top Performer Award for 2020, a great honor. Part of Vistage's new Speaker Awards & Recognition program, th e Top Performer award is an annual recognition of speakers who have presented 25+ engagements, maintained

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On the Brink

JULY 20, 2021

Now that we're hesitantly coming out of the pandemic, or even before that, have you found yourself asking those big questions like, Why am I here? Do I really want to be doing what I'm doing for the rest of my life? Is this all there is? Good news: Yes, there is more. Yes, you can change the direction of your life, you can write a new story. And yes, you really can become the best that you can be.

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JULY 13, 2021

I've been interviewed a lot lately! Happily, they've all focused on the topics I love sharing about: my new book, Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business , the challenges women and minorities face in the workplace, Blue Ocean Strategy , female entrepreneurs , the Simon Initiative , culture change , and of course, anthropology. So is there an underlying theme to these articles, which I share below?

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On the Brink

JULY 8, 2021

I was recently a guest speaker on the Entrepreneur MBA podcast with Stephen Halasnik, and what we talked about was really significant. Yes, we discussed my new book, Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business , but we also delved into how the old ways of viewing gender and diversity are changing, not just for today but for generations to come.

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On the Brink

JUNE 30, 2021

Are you like our client Mary Beth who is feeling like she is out of steam? Is this really the story she wanted for her life? She is struggling to run her business, trying to raise her young son, and has none of the life she thought she could have as a successful entrepreneur. What’s missing? Is this all there is? She wants a better future. She wants more.

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On the Brink

JUNE 1, 2021

Are you a strong woman who looks at a challenge straight in the eye and gives it a wink? Maybe you are but today you are stalled or stuck, frustrated with your job, or tired of the life you have been leading. Isn’t it time for you to step back and ask yourself Why? Why am I here? What has been the path I have been on for a short or a long time and is it the one I want to be on for the rest of my life?

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MAY 13, 2021

For some of us, there comes a point in our lives when we choose purpose over profit. Janine Firpo, one of the amazing women profiled in my book , " Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business ," has found a way to do both. You can get your copy here. I met Janine through my editor who said, "You should include Janine in your book. She is trying to change the way women manage their money across the globe.

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On the Brink

MAY 11, 2021

In the 1970s I was recently out of college, married, and ready for a credit card of my own. I was a graduate student, was working, and had no children. However, as a woman, no bank would give me a credit card without a husband’s signature — even if I was a famous (but unmarried) tennis star like the three-time Wimbledon champion Billie Jean King who faced the same obstacle.

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APRIL 28, 2021

In 2020, there were over 400,000 women lawyers, making up almost 36% of all practicing attorneys in the US. Looks like progress, until you learn that women lawyers are 29% less likely to become partners than their male counterparts, despite the fact that over half the students in law school are women. Underscoring this statistic, the Law360 Glass Ceiling report for 2019 cited the lack of progress at the top levels of law firms for women, revealing that at the top private law firms, four-fifths o

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On the Brink

APRIL 22, 2021

In my new book , " Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business ," I expose many of the myths that for centuries have held women back from achieving what they knew they could. These outdated, inaccurate myths have told women in business what they can and can't do, have shut them out of leadership positions, and have denied them access to venture capital.

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On the Brink

APRIL 13, 2021

In the latter half of the 1960s, a massive disruption was underway in the US fashion industry. Before WWII, America dominated the globe in garment manufacturing, employing over 2 million people. After the war, that all changed, from where garments were made to who designed them. By 2000, only about 2% of Americans' clothing was made in the US. Amidst all this change, women in the garment business saw an opportunity.

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On the Brink

MARCH 19, 2021

Throughout history, men have always been heralded as great leaders. Yet society, not just in America but everywhere, has downplayed the leadership abilities of women. While men have been championed as artistic geniuses, powerful visionaries, brilliant innovators and influential builders (from interstate freeways to the Louvre to the internet), women leaders have been seen as outliers who pushed the boundaries of where they belonged and what they were supposed to achieve.

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On the Brink

MARCH 11, 2021

As a corporate anthropologist and culture change expert , I am fascinated by Stephanie Breedlove’s story, one of the amazing women I write about in my new book, " Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business." Get your copy here. I also did an On The Brink podcast interview with Stephanie back in 2017. What makes her story so important, and so relevant for the times, is that her success came in large part from a belief that if you strive to bring out the best in people, that brings out the b

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MARCH 9, 2021

"If the Golden Rule is to treat people as you want to be treated, the Platinum Rule is to treat people as they want to be treated. If you're truly a global citizen, you have to practice the Platinum Rule." - Denise Meagles. Yesterday was International Women's Day, and the month of March is Women's History Month. How should we mark these two events? How do we adequately honor and celebrate all of the incredible things women have accomplished throughout history, their contributions to human civili

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On the Brink

MARCH 9, 2021

Photo courtesy of The Good Men Project. Ah, change.love it or hate it, it's inevitable. It comes whether you like it or not. That's why the best approach is not to resist change and do battle with it, but to find ways to make it your friend. This is the message of a recent article I wrote for The Good Men Project , entitled "Don’t Let Change Be a Stranger; How To Embrace It as Your New Best Friend.

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On the Brink

MARCH 4, 2021

Have you noticed? In business, politics, medicine, law, tech, sports.pretty much everything.women today are breaking barriers and smashing glass ceilings in fields that for decades (centuries?) have been heavily dominated by men. And they're not just surviving, they're thriving. This is also the focus of my new book, " Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business ," which shares the stories of 11 trailblazing women who refused to be held back from becoming who they wanted to be and achieving

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On the Brink

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

I am thrilled! Not only is my new book, " Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business ," published and now out in the world, it's selling like gangbusters. In just one month, it's 9th on Amazon's list of Kindle e-books on women in business. But it's not just the sales that gets me excited, it's the fact that more and more women, and hopefully men, are reading about the 11 trailblazing women whose stories I share, including my own.

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On the Brink

JANUARY 21, 2021

Photo credit: Joshua Roberts of Reuters/CNNpolitics. Finally it happened. We now have our first female vice president. Our first Black vice president. Our first South Asian vice president. Our first Second Gentleman. Our first Jewish vice presidential spouse. Such a lot of firsts! Amazingly, 158 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and 101 years after women were granted the right to vote, Kamala Devi Harris stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with her husband Doug Emhoff as the newly

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JANUARY 12, 2021

It's out! My new book, " Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business ," is now published and available wherever books are sold. You can get your copy here. I am thrilled that it's now out in the world, telling the stories of 11 women, myself included, who refused to believe the myths that (male-dominated) society was telling them about their capabilities and what they could and couldn't do.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Photo courtesy of Texas Monthly. "We didn't hire Becky to make history," Popovich said. "She earned it.". When Becky Hammon joined the San Antonio Spurs pro basketball team as an assistant coach in 2014—the first woman in NBA history to hold this position— Barack Obama congratulated her on Twitter. Boy, have times changed! And when the Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich was ejected from a December 30th game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Hammon replaced him to become the first woman to act as head

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Photo courtesy of Swaay.com. It's happening! Glass ceilings are being smashed and myths debunked. By now you've probably heard the news: Kim Ng was hired by the Miami Marlins as the first-ever female General Manager of a Major League Baseball team. What a terrific acknowledgement of Ng's credentials and experience, built up over decades. But alongside all the cheers, I found myself asking, "Why did it take so long to smash baseball's glass ceiling and let a woman in?”.

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On the Brink

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I was recently interviewed by The Sun in the UK for a very timely and much-needed article about how to spot that a loved one is lonely and how to help. Has a spouse, a parent, a child, a grandparent, or others whom you care about seemed withdrawn lately? Are they behaving differently as a result of the pandemic and all the isolation it has caused? We've all been through a lot this year, but some are finding it particularly hard to cope.

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On the Brink

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The women’s national soccer team celebrating after winning the 2019 FIFA World Cup. In the early 1970s, two significant events had a major effect on women’s sports. First, Title IX , a clause of the 1972 Federal Education Amendments , was signed into law on June 23, 1972. Groundbreaking at the time, it stated that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program

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On the Brink

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I could not be more thrilled that my new book, " Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business ," is about to be published soon. The release date is January 5th, 2021 with a virtual launch party the following day (details below). You can pre-order your copy here. Why is this book important? Because it comes at a time when women leaders all over the world are boldly asserting their right to persue their dreams, whatever those dreams may be — whether it's their careers, their personal lives, wh

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On the Brink

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Photo courtesy of EPA, via Shutterstock. Smashing another myth again! The Sunday New York Times published an article on October 11th entitled, " In Belarus, Women Led the Protests and Shattered Stereotypes ," which points out how women are changing the face of politics, creating new norms and shattering deeply entrenched gender stereotypes built up over generations.

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On the Brink

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ah, these are interesting times, aren't they? During the coronavirus pandemic, some world leaders have risen to the enormous challenge of steering their country through lockdowns, quarantines, plummeting economies, mass sickness and death, and civil unrest. They have been level-headed, resolute and inspiring. Others, sadly, have sputtered or utterly failed.

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On the Brink

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you ready for some distressing news? According to Axios.com , more than 25% of women recently surveyed by McKinsey & Company and Lean In reported that they are considering "downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce entirely, as the coronavirus pandemic has intensified challenges many already faced at work." The survey questioned over 40,000 women in 317 companies in the U.S. and Canada.

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On the Brink

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Women are smart. Women are capable. Women make great leaders. So why are only 4.9% of Fortune 500 CEOs and 2% of S&P 500 CEOs women ? Could it be because of the outdated, erroneous myths that surround both men and women when it comes to taking charge? This is the basis of my discussion in a recent article in IntelligentHQ where I argue that d espite enormous strides in business, government and many other areas, women often don’t get the respect men do for their leadership abilities, even whe

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On the Brink

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Reading the recent Forbes article, “ Do Women Make Better Leaders In A Pandemic? Don’t Trust The Data……. ,” I was reminded of my Anthropology 101 professor telling us that “data does not exist.” In other words, out-of-context data points have no meaning. Our brains have a fascinating ability to only see what we want to see. I.e., only those truths that support our own story of reality, which has little to do with evidence-based research or “factually supported” data.

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On the Brink

MARCH 24, 2020

These times are presenting us with a new world where most of us are working remotely or, maybe, will be doing so shortly. The pandemic crisis is here, and the best solution is to separate us all. It is an important time to have to learn new skills. And even enjoy morphing into your new daily routine. For most of us, we hate this type of crisis-induced change.

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