Dipping My Toe Into Live Events: The Collective Exhale

On October 5, 2021

I was unprepared for the emotional reaction on April 9th when I stood in front of an audience in Connecticut. While I had been connecting with people virtually throughout the pandemic lockdown, I had profoundly missed the energy that comes from the presence of so many humans gathered for one purpose, and I could feel […]

On January 13, 2021
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USA Today’s Women of the Century project launched in late summer, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women in the U.S. the right to vote. I’m grateful for the opportunity I had to to sit on a very diverse, multicultural nominating panel of women (and one man). Throughout the deliberations, there were at […]

On February 5, 2015
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“I have a mandate to expand our business globally in the next 5 years. We can’t succeed without having the best local leadership talent in place around the world, but it hasn’t been easy working with my team from other cultures. They don’t communicate the way I’m used to. Do I need to treat everybody […]

On March 26, 2014
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Guest Post for Management Excellence by Art Petty The face of the global workplace has changed forever. Chances are good that your company is already comprised of workers from around the world as well as multicultural employees in North America; more women are in the workforce (about 50% in the U.S.) than ever before, and […]

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