Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
Are you fully engaged in the work you are doing? Do you feel like you are both achieving success and also creating a legacy that is deeply personal and important to you?
For a long time in my own career I was happy climbing the corporate ladder, but after a while [...]

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Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly PhD
Dear Ann:
I need your advice about how to start the conversation about getting a raise at work. I was recently reassigned, and that has increased my workload and requires way more of my time. I feel like I am doing more work, and I am not being compensated well. [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
Are you achieving success in your career but still feel like you are not making the impact you have the potential to make? Are you successful but not deeply fulfilled by the work you do?
Beyond your achievements, if you truly want to make a contribution – like many women do [...]

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Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly PhD
The way the media goes on about women “finding balance,” you’d think that Balance is a town in upstate New York. Just program it into your GPS and life will be perfect!
As if.
I hear it from my coaching clients every day: the workplace is more competitive than ever, and [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
Are you achieving success in your career but still feel like you are not making the impact you have the potential to make? Are you successful but not deeply fulfilled by the work you do?
McKinsey research from the Centered Leadership Project shows that, for women in particular, a key component [...]

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Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly, PhD
Like many summa cum laude graduates, I started my career with confidence in my talents and abilities. So much so that I refused to get involved in anything that smacked of “office politics.” I believed that work and career were all about merit, not about backroom bartering or Happy [...]

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Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly, Ph.D.
Dear Career Coach,
I would like to reinvent my life! I graduated with a degree in management four years ago at the age of 50. I spent more than 10 years reaching my goal of completing my degree while working full-time and raising two amazing daughters. I am grateful [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
Is there someone at work you don’t get along with and yet need to influence? And, yes, you tend to avoid them because you just don’t see eye to eye? It could be a peer, a boss, a direct report. Here’s the best advice I have seen recently on a [...]

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Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly, Ph.D.
Okay, enough! Enough with all the talk about New Year’s resolutions. It may be a great way to sell gym memberships, but it’s not effective for much of anything else. For one thing, it takes more than a resolution to bring about substantial career change.
Is this the year you’re [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
The data is confounding and women are still missing out.
According to Catalyst research, companies with the highest representation of women on their top management teams had 34% higher Total Return to Shareholders than those with the lowest.  Yet, across all Fortune 500 companies, in the  2010 Census of women leaders shows women [...]

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