by Gerri Vereen Are you ready for that next promotion and wondering what should be your next step? Make sure you have two networks which includes an i...
Does Gender Bias Exist? #BalanceForBetter
On average, women get interrupted three times more in conversations than men. If you are a woman and attending a meeting remotely, the number goes up....
A Real Life Wonder Woman
In learning about others in business, it’s not uncommon to come across some outstanding athletes. That being said, I didn’t think I was hearing Su...
Do What You Love and You’ll Never Work a Day in Your Life
Holly’s great grandmother, Bess, was a baker. With the untimely death of her husband, Bess needed to work to support her young daughter. She, her br...
Purge Perfectionism
I was invited to speak at Raymond James’ Women in Capital Markets Conference in January of this year. I was excited to hear that Claire Shipman was ...
Act First, Don’t Overthink
Women are less confident than men and have a tendency to second guess themselves more often. In their book, The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Ka...
It’s not what you say, it’s how you project it
Women are often penalized for asserting themselves verbally. Interestingly, research indicates that women are not penalized for non-verbal assertive b...
Assertiveness is critical to leadership success
In my blog on “When I Say No, I Feel Guilty,” I outlined some approaches to assertiveness and boundary setting. One of the problems that many wome...
Celebrate International Women’s Day
March 8 is International Women’s Day. The theme this year is #PressforProgress. Before we look at pressing forward, let’s look back to the past an...
#MeToo. Now What?
Guest post by Terin Barbas Cremer, Esq. On October 15, 2017, Actress Alyssa Milano’s “#MeToo” tweet brought the sexual harassment conve...
Goodbye, My Sweet Lady Caroline
How do you say goodbye to one of your best friends? I was caught off guard when Carol called me to say she was going to hospice. Three weeks earlier, ...
Being #2 is Great!
As the Founder of the Key Women’s Leadership Forum and a Tampa based executive coach, I was delighted to hear that Tampa was rated the No. 2 city fo...