Arcilia Acosta: A Great Connector
“Before we start,” Arcilia Acosta says, “I want to know about you.” We share stories, then the conversation evolves to past work activities we have...
Lucinda Jackson
Quotas: Tokenism or Diversity Drivers?
I wish I had been raised in Norway! Maria Moræus Hanssen tells me that Norway, her home country, and the other Scandinavian countries, are the...
Women Add to a Board’s “Cognitive Diversity”
After her decades-long career in finance, Vanessa C.L. Chang now sits on the boards of two electric utilities, Edison International and Southern California Edison Company,...
Kathy Sendall: Canada’s Self-Proclaimed “Chair Chick”
“A diverse board contributes to a terrifically well-functioning board.” Named four times as one of Canada’s top Most Powerful Women Corporate Executives, Kathleen (Kathy) Sendall...
Paula Glover’s Holistic Approach to Leadership
“The way you get to really good solutions is to have a lot of people thinking differently about the same thing,” says Paula Glover, former...
Strategic Advice from Corporate Executive Lydia Beebe
“I never got anything I didn’t ask for and I asked for a lot of stuff I didn’t get,” says Lydia Beebe, former corporate secretary...
Just A Girl: Growing Up Female and Ambitious
I never advise women to lie. Women have lived their lives as lies for so many years. We lie about our capabilities, our true feelings;...