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Working Women’s Woes: Gain Career Perspective to Tame Your Busy Week
We’re women professionals, which by definition immerses us into a particularly challenging workplace setting. After answering to our bosses, managing the people who report to us, navigating…
A Call To Action: Start Improving Your Self-Worth Today!
If you experienced the recent WAC webinar video presented by transformational coach and WAC specialist Jenny Craig, you witnessed the miracle of neuroscience explored in relation…
The Irony Of It All: When Enthusiasm Is A Sign Of Desperation
An interesting thing happened when I met with a prospective client last month. Based on a variety of factors, I had assumed that this company was a long shot. In my mind, the possibility of yielding…
Hot Tomatoes! Don’t Miss The 3T Hot List
If you’ve ever randomly peeked at WAC’s website, chances are you came across at least a mention of our favorite woman-centric e-newsletter The Three Tomatoes. Founded by former NYC…
Response, Not Reaction: Overseeing The Conversion of Fear to Trust
The Old Outlook: You can prepare, and prepare, and prepare, and then hopefully mitigate problems as they occur. The New Outlook: You can prepare, but you have the wisdom and the life experience…
The Big Announcement: Women’s Advancement Compact Needs A New Name!
When I set out to launch Women’s Advancement Compact, I gave it a name that would unmistakably attach it to its mission: to guide women through the all phases of their careers, and help them…
Bottom Line, or Bottom Out? Finding New Momentum For Leadership Gender Parity
Those of us who are tuned-in to the business bottom line sabotage connected to gender inequality in the workplace have certainly read the related articles and even memorized the statistics. We know…
Are You A “Morning Person”, or Just An Early Riser?
There’s one thing that each of us knows for sure: whether or not we are a morning person. It’s also probably safe to say that it’s tricky to become a morning person if we’re not one already. If this…
Finding Focus: An Entrepreneur’s Tips on Smoothing Out a Rough Start
At the conclusion of WAC’s community events, participants are asked to volunteer their feedback about what they’ve learned from the presentation. This takes the form of “Baby Steps” that they plan…
Advancement Strategies: An Informative Glimpse Into Our Interactive Symposium
Interested and interesting people. Once again, we filled a room with them….70 of them, as we provided yet another remarkable and informative evening full of discussion, business insight, and…
Stay True to Your New Year’s Resolutions: Check Out MARY’s Secret Ingredients
What was your New Year’s resolution this year? Was it to stretch the boundaries of your cooking? To branch out and discover new recipes? Maybe you resolved to cook healthier with better…
My 2015 Word of the Year is….Focus!
Self-Compassion. It was my 2014 Word of the Year, and it was timely. It had been the necessary prescription to get me through the infancy of my new business and the community that formed…
Two Keys to Career Success: They’re Not What You Might Expect
“Technical skills account for less than 15% of one’s value in obtaining, keeping, or advancing in a job. More than 85% of job success is based on personal conduct and the ability to put…
Going Down?: Why The Elevator Pitch is an Occupational Dinosaur, and What Should Replace It
In any Networking 101 discussion, the topic of the Elevator Pitch inevitably comes up. Its name derives from an old-fashioned metaphor that places you on an elevator when an executive…
The Pain of Stretching: How Self-Compassion Made Everything Okay
In 2014, my word of the year was Self-Compassion….it’s powerful, constructive, and stands for something we could all use a little more of. Although I chose that word based on a sense that I needed to…