I intentionally delayed this issue so that it could coincide with International Men’s Day. It’s a day dedicated to acknowledging the issues men face and their contributions to the world. You may recall that I made July “Men’s Month” and every day in July I shared a post intended to celebrate and support men and the role they play in making workplaces (and the world) better, so I’m...

In the last two weeks I have been thinking about networking groups and what makes them effective. I joined my first Employee Resource Group (ERG) on September 14, 2001.  I was the most senior woman in the Office of the CEO and the Global Head of Diversity called me to ask for my support convincing our company not to cancel our 2,000 attendee women’s conference scheduled for a...

There is a major lesson for the future of work happening in the Middle East right now. We have lived our whole lives with war and terrorism.  So much so that we have created a line that says war should be respectful of innocent human lives.  We should not bomb schools or hospitals because that’s “inhumane.”  If you cross that line you are a terrorist and are not...