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.
Managing high emotions and conflict in STEM is a skill that leaders master, and it's one that no one tells you is required to not just get ahead, but navigate your technical career with less stress and more ease.
Learn our 4-step SOAR framework to manage high emotions during conflict or other triggering events in your STEM career like microaggressions or clashes with your manager/staff.
Getting motivated to make career decisions and trigger action in your STEM career is the hallmark of a successful career. Yet, often we find ourselves going through the motions, spending all day in our email inboxes, and feeling like we never have the time to take a step back and reflect on where we want to go and how we are showing up at work. Learn a simple framework to craft the right question to ask, and five examples used routinely with my clients to quickly cut to the heart of the issue and get you energized and more importantly, taking action!
Creating engaging virtual technical presentations doesn't have to be hard. Learn 3 tips for quickly adding more interest to your presentation, so that you can keep your technical audience hanging on your every word.
Almost 80% of women in engineering and technology have reported feeling like a fraud at work. It’s so common that it’s known as imposter syndrome, and it’s a result of a work environment that tells you in subtle and sometimes blatant ways that you don’t belong. Learn 3 immediately applicable strategies to stop feeling like a fraud or imposter at work.
How can you position yourself in the best way possible to fast track your STEM career in the next 90 days and beyond? Based on our research and interviews with successful women in STEM, these are the top three practical moves you can make that will fast-track your career path. Immediately apply them to position yourself for STEM career success on your terms and quickly move the needle in your own career.
Stuck in analysis paralysis? You’re not alone, and it’s something many struggle with. Here’s 3 traps that are keeping you stuck in the analysis paralysis loop and a 4 question framework you can use to break the cycle so that you can show up at work as the leader you are.
February is Black History Month and also includes Engineers Week. Here are 8 inspiring Black women engineers and scientists, without whom we would not be enjoying much of the technological innovations we take for granted today.
Struggling to make time for your engineering career goals? Learn 5 strategies for immediate impact in your day so you can get more done on your most important goals.
You’re a master at getting things done, yet you struggle to decide - let alone achieve - your professional career goals. Learn the 4 ways you're setting your career goals wrong and what to do differently so that you can stop setting goals you don't complete and achieve your biggest career aspirations.
Struggling to figure out what's next for you in your engineering career? Here are 6 must-ask questions to help you figure out what you want. If you've hit a career plateau or glass ceiling, these reflection questions will help you start the process of getting unstuck. If you're setting career goals, these are must-ask reflection questions to do prior to setting them so that you can make sure goals are meaningful to YOU, and not just another item on your manager's to-do list. Determining what you want is the first step to having a successful and fulfilling career on your terms.
Many New Resolutions fail a few weeks after making them. If you want yours to stick, here are 3 things you need to do BEFORE you sit down to figure out your new goals.
Can’t wait to ditch 2020? You aren’t alone. But here’s the thing - if you want to do great things in the new year, you’ve got to ditch the 2020 baggage you’re carrying around so that you can not just survive but thrive in the new normal. This short post includes a must-do 15-minute exercise to reset your brain to see your potential, embrace your inner boss, and crush it in 2021.
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.