Is there a name for the phobia of being wrangled up into a group of women who work in leadership or tech and making them pose in the lobby of your office so you can make a LI post bragging about the fact that you employ them? …

On a virutal sales call with Microsoft I sat with two colleagues: an older gentleman and another woman. I posed a challenging question to the Microsoft team only to be cut off by my male colleague who condescendingly chortled, “You’ll have to excuse our questions, I’m sitting here with two…

I have hesitated to write about this for years. Mostly because the people who push the agenda of attracting more women into tech and STEM mean well. This issue is also extremely personal for me as I was explicitly told by an authority figure as a young adult that I…

This is generally how I “negotiate” my rates: Client: how much will you charge for this work? Me: what do you think is fair? Client: says a number Me: (if I want to do the work) ok Although my approach may be unique, I know I am not alone in…

“Choose your battles” the McKinsey consultant told me as he decided to completely change his recommendation to our CEO (who was paying him for his expert advice). “But we agreed this was the number one recommendation,” I pleaded, perplexed as to why he was doing the opposite of what he…

It was Christmas 2020. I played the annual phone tag game with my family from overseas. Coordinating with my brother, video calls were arranged to touch base on this special day. But I couldn’t get through to my mother. I continued involving my brother, wondering where she was and why…

Have you ever felt like the only way to make management happy is to stop caring? This is a classic symptom of a pervasive pattern in the corporate world. It goes something like this: You are recruited for a position. The recruitment process vets you to find out if you…

I have recently been trolled for being privileged, told that my optics are great, and received a card in the mail that said I am “kicking ass and taking names”. I think it is time I set the record straight. I have quit my comfortable job (again) to do what…

Fostering psychological safety to navigate ethical dilemmas — Daily Choices Lene, whose name has been changed for anonymity, led a large team responsible for the finance modules of an ERP implementation at a pharmaceuticals company in Denmark. Since the Pharma industry is one of the most heavily regulated industries, any development that was part of a system that…