leadership

5 STEM Leadership Lessons from the Barbie Movie

5 STEM Leadership Lessons from the Barbie Movie

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.

Performance Reviews for Women in STEM: How to Prepare for Career Growth

Performance Reviews for Women in STEM: How to Prepare for Career Growth

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.

6 moments women STEM leaders say are essential to career success

6 moments women STEM leaders say are essential to career success

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.

5 Focus Areas for Companies to Retain Women in STEM

5 Focus Areas for Companies to Retain Women in STEM

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?”

6 Leadership Skill Sets for an Accelerated Career Path

6 Leadership Skill Sets for an Accelerated Career Path

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.

How to Use “Yes-And” to Uplevel Your STEM Leadership

How to Use “Yes-And” to Uplevel Your STEM Leadership

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!

3 Easy Ways to Self-Advocate in a Virtual Work Environment

3 Easy Ways to Self-Advocate in a Virtual Work Environment

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.”