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We teach high-achieving female engineers tools to succeed on their own terms. Not someone else's version of success, but the one that is uniquely YOU.
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Imagine a life where YOU choose your own career path. You love what you do. You are an influencer, a go-to person at your company and in your field. You aren’t working ridiculous hours. You have a life outside of work. You may even have a couple of young children if you so choose, while still enjoying a well-paying, impactful career in engineering.
Sound like a pipe dream?
It’s not. This book will show you how.
As a fifteen-year engineering industry veteran and mom of 3 daughters, Stephanie uses a conversational and down-to-earth approach to teach you how to succeed as a female engineer.
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What STEM leadership lessons can we learn from the Barbie? Learn 5 insights you can apply immediately on your career journey, including the power of integrating emotion and logic, challenging norms, avoiding conformity, embracing imperfection, and finding insights in unexpected places.
Are you ready for your next performance review? Learn a 4-step method to effectively prepare. Know your goals, align them strategically, quantify value, and make confident asks to succeed.
What are practical actions organizations can take to retain more women in STEM? This blog – designed for managers and leaders in organizations - shares 9 actions to take to improve the retention of women in your firm.
The path to a leadership role can feel like a mystery. What if there’s a roadmap you can follow? In interviews with more than 100 women emerging and current STEM leaders and allies, we found 6 common types of catalyst career moments that led to women leaders' current roles. Find out what those 6 moments are so you can create your own success path and help others build theirs.
Where should organizations focus their strategic efforts to retain women in STEM? Learn the 5 patterns that emerged from the She Leads STEM 100 Leaders project when current and aspiring leaders were asked: “What have your current or previous organizations done to support and keep you?”
What skill sets do you need to develop for an accelerated leadership path? What skill sets set up mentees aspiring to leadership for success? This blog provides an overview of the 6 skill sets from the She Leads STEM 100 Leaders project that ambitious professionals and organizations building their leadership pipeline can use to focus their professional development training.
Why aren’t there more women leaders? What are the top challenges women face in their rise to leadership? This blog summarizes the top ten challenges taken from the more than 100 case study interviews conducted of emerging and current women and non-binary STEM leaders and male allies.
As a leader, your words matter. If you’ve ever found yourself struggling to facilitate a group brainstorming session or needing to give sensitive feedback to someone you work with, this video shares a simple, practical tool that encourages thoughtful and continued discussion and makes it easier to both generate innovative ideas and give sensitive feedback. Try it out today!
Self-advocacy is essential for advancement but can feel inauthentic to many STEM professionals. Learn 3 easy ways to authentically advocate for yourself so that key decision-makers at work are aware of your achievements, skills, and interests, without the accompanying feelings of “ick” that can accompany traditional techniques of “tooting your own horn.”
What’s the current state of women and non-binary leaders in STEM? Is leadership the missing link? This short and thought-provoking article captures the leadership gap statistics in STEM in a digestible format.
Managing stress in your STEM career is an essential habit of successful technical leaders and professionals. Learn how to incorporate stress management techniques into your day, even if you have an overwhelming to-do list and no time to do so in this interview with wellness engineer Lennis Perez.
Many technical professionals - and especially women - struggle to get useful feedback. Feedback is a critical data point for career growth, without which you can find yourself stagnate because you don't know how you are being perceived at work. Learn how to turn subjective feedback or no feedback at all into feedback you can take action on so that you can accelerate your STEM career growth.
Do you secretly feel like you aren't good enough and don't deserve to be successful in your STEM career? For STEM women, this is a common experience. Get motivated and inspired as you learn the facts around why that happens and what you can do about it.
Successful women are boundary evangelists. They set and enforce firm boundaries as a foundational stepping stone to getting the respect they deserve at work and have a life outside of work too. You’ll learn 7 practical tips for establishing healthy boundaries in your STEM career, all without coming across as rude, b**chy, or someone who isn't a team player.
3 bad work habits cause stress and sabotage your STEM career progression, which I see consistently in my coaching practice. These habits manifest as feeling unappreciated and overlooked at work, exhaustion from working too much, stress, and sometimes even burnout. Hear what they are and what you can do about them so they don't hold you back from a career on your terms.
How do you know when it’s time to quit your job and move on, especially if you’re job falls into the “Not terrible but not great” category? Here are 3 unobvious warning signs that are early indicators you should look for a new position. If you started out in a particular career path or role and loved it, but now it’s not-so-great and you’re trying to decide if you should stay or go, this blog will help you make that decision.
The great resignation is here, and a lot of engineers and technical professionals are asking: should I quit my job right now? Learn 6 questions to ask yourself to determine if you should stay in your current role or quit right now, including insights into the ideal time to leave a job (see #4) if you want to get the biggest salary bump.
Learn how to give feedback that builds trust and drives growth using a practical framework for STEM leaders who want to balance technical excellence with human connection.