Contributed by Kate Buller, Executive Coach, The Executive Coaching Consultancy (London)
Resilience, or the ability to flex and bounce back from setbacks, is a central characteristic of business leadership and living full and challenging lives.  So what are some of the key psychological and physiological processes behind understanding and improving resilience?
Resilience in the face of [...]

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Contributed by Valia Glytsis
Leadership today demands a very different type of leader. As women, we have been indoctrinated to lead from a place of traditional masculinity – power, aggression, and agenda. Particularly in male-dominated fields, there has been little room for the nuances of a female leader. This is not a judgment of “better” or [...]

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Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
I had a client recently share with me her desire to be a more inspirational leader in her organization. I asked her why this was important to her. She said she wanted to have greater impact and greater engagement within her teams. Shoulders slumped, she quickly confessed she was not [...]

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Contributed by Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris
Shhhh… there’s a secret that no one is talking about. The woman sitting at the next desk, your high-flying cousin, perhaps even you… is likely to earn more than your male partner. The trend for women to earn more than the men with whom they share their lives is increasingly prevalent, [...]

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Contributed by Carol Frohlinger, Co-Author of Her Place at the Table: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
Negotiating on your own can be tricky. Things get exponentially more complicated though when negotiation must be played as a team sport.
Let’s say you’re leading a shared services group that’s been given a mandate [...]

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Contributed by Karol Wasylyshyn, author of Behind the Executive Door: Unexpected lessons for Managing Your Boss and Career
When historians write about business in late 20th and early 21st century America, they will say it was a time of intense leadership scrutiny – not only of executives’ results but of how they achieved them. This focus [...]

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Contributed by Dr. Beth Erickson
Women have wondered since the beginning of feminism whether it is possible to have it all: a challenging career, healthy kids, and a satisfying marriage. And there isn’t a mother around who hasn’t occasionally questioned her choice from time to time, whichever one she has made. For some, it’s all the [...]

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Contributed by Dana Theus, Founder of InPower Coaching
There’s no snappy research study to prove that “just being yourself” is every woman’s ticket to upper management, but I believe it’s true. I’m going to make a good argument for it in this article, and why – when your head hits the glass ceiling and “playing [...]

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Contributed by Ellen Lubin-Sherman, Executive Coach and Author of The Essentials of Fabulous, Because Whatever Doesn’t Work Here Anymore
Fabulous women who have risen to the top are a different breed. Their confidence is palpable. Their self-assurance is awe-inspiring. Their energy level is enervating, energizing and contagious. And their charisma–you can’t buy that kind of high-wattage [...]

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Contributed by Natalie Runyon
A recent Forbes article indicated that the perception of power—more so than gender—may have to do with women’s challenges with negotiation. And while this may be true, it does not change the outcome—we see little female influence at the top ranks of organizations. The mind is powerful and shapes our interpretations of [...]

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