About

The Glass Hammer is an award-winning blog and online community created for women executives in finance, law, technology and big business.

Our goal is to Inform, Empower and Inspire professional women with our content and our network.

Theglasshammer.com helps individuals to build their career and we provide companies opportunities to recruit, develop and retain female talent via our offerings, which are as follows:

  • Organize sponsored networking events around a business discussion/panel debate
  • Organize sponsored career development events
  • Provide specialized leadership and development courses for women.
  • Post job opportunities
  • Build your women’s network, or develop content for your existing network.
  • Profile top women and explore progressive gender diversity trends and best practices in leading firms via our award- winning editorial
  • Offer employer branding opportunities

We advise employers on how to create a working environment which is conducive to the continued development and success of women. We conduct this work via our consulting arm  Evolved Employer, and the ways in which we can help your firm include:

  • Diagnose problem areas and create solutions to implement for the improved attraction, development and retention of women in your firm.
  • Human Capital Performance and Talent Management strategy design.
  • Provide specialized leadership and development courses for all talent.
  • Conduct Culture audits.
  • Publish research on workplace issues.

If you have any issues that you would like to discuss please call Nicki Gilmour for an exploratory call on +1 646 6882318

We encourage our readers/members to participate in our online community. Our editorial goals revolve around:

  • Sharing stories of women breaking the glass ceiling and thriving at the top (in our Voices of Experience, 35 Under 35, Movers and Shakers series) as well as inspiring stories of women doing extraordinary things outside of their high-powered careers (in our Women and Philanthropy, Passions, and Intrepid Women series)
  • Reporting on news, events, and other topics of interest and highlighting companies, programs, and organizations that support the retention and advancement of women (in our News, Green is Good, Industry Leaders, Managing Change, Office Politics, Money Talks, and What’s On series).
  • Answering your questions and addressing career and work/life issues via a wide variety of industry experts (in our Work/Life Balance, Expert Answers, and Ask-a-Recruiter series).

Contact us at +1 646 688 2318 or email [email protected].

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The Glass Hammer is brought to you by:

Nicki HeadshotNicki Gilmour
Founder, Evolved People Media LLC
Publisher and CEO, The Glass Hammer
CEO, Evolved Employer

Nicki Gilmour, a Belfast native, is a dedicated workplace game changer with over a decade of experience in the media industry.

One of the original team assembled by Angus MacDonald at the Financial News in London, Nicki relocated to the US in 2004 to run The Financial News Group’s online career sites (efinancialcareers.com and jobsinthemoney.com) as Managing Director. The newspaper and career sites were sold in 2006 and 2007.

While running efinancialcareers, Nicki recognized that companies spend a great deal of time and money trying to recruit diverse talent but saw that women, once hired were not progressing at an equal pace to men up the ranks. She founded Evolved People Media LLC in July 2007 with the flagship website theglasshammer.com to inform, inspire and empower women in the financial and professional services industry and in tandem launched evolvedemployer.com an organizational development and change boutique consulting firm specializing in diversity and inclusion issues.

Nicki has a business degree from the Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK and a graduate degree in business from Universidad de Murcia in Spain. Most recently, Nicki graduated in May 2012 from Columbia University in the City of New York with a Masters degree in Change Leadership and Organizational Psychology. Nicki resides in NY and Vermont and enjoys snowboarding and surfing in her spare time.

MJA-SmallMelissa J. Anderson
Editor and Content Manager, The Glass Hammer
Editor and Head of Research, Evolved Employer

Melissa J. Anderson is editor of The Glass Hammer and head of research for Evolved Employer. She is interested in how digital communities can foster gender equality in business and beyond. Before joining The Glass Hammer, Melissa worked as a copywriter at MBM Marketing. She has a master’s degree in Media, Culture, and Communication with a focus on Technology and Society from NYU and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the College of William and Mary. Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Melissa now lives in Brooklyn, New York, and in her spare time she enjoys traveling, volunteer work, and learning new trivia.

Contact us here.

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Current contributing writers include:

- Robin Madell (San Francisco)

- Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)

- Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago)

- Elisabeth Grant (Washington, D.C.)

- Natalie Soltys (Kansas City)

- Natalie Sabia (New York City)

Thanks to previous contributors and editors:

Jane Carruthers (Founding Editor), Erin Abrams, and Pamela Weinsaft.

We are always looking for new stories and new writers from around the globe so please send us an email with your story pitch and/or your resume and writing samples. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Theglasshammer.com is a woman-owned and LGBT-owned business. Support supplier diversity.

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Site designed, developed and supported by Jim Dalton of Furry Brains

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TheGlassHammer.com is a part of Evolved People Media LLC