by Nina | Jan 30, 2016 | Glass Ceiling, Innovation, Leadership, Women
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act marked a significant milestone in advancing equal pay for all workers. Seven years later, the median wage of a woman working full-time year-round in the United States remains only 79 percent of a man’s median earnings. And while this...
by Nina | Nov 16, 2015 | Innovation, Leadership, Lean Leadership
When it comes to innovation, there is much that we can learn from the lean approaches taken by startups. There is the rapid iteration, hypothesis testing and measurement, that builds a dynamic, responsive organization. There is the focus on releasing products and...
by Nina | Aug 1, 2015 | Glass Ceiling, Leadership, Women
Corporate America has worked hard for the past several decades to try to solve the problem of wage inequality between the genders. It is commonly known that women earn only about 75% of the income that men in similar roles with similar experience earn. This injustice...
by Nina | May 22, 2015 | Corporate Performance, Featured, Innovation, Leadership
Transforming a business is hard work. It requires a vision and a program. It means shifting and reallocating resources. It’s about asking hard questions and listening to the equally hard answers. Transformation is both strategic and tactical – and for many...
by Nina | Feb 24, 2015 | Featured, Leadership, Women
We hear a lot of talk about gender inequality at all levels. From the board room to the call center and everywhere in-between, we seem to have a problem. This is particularly in the technology field where qualified women are abandoning the industry in record numbers....
by Nina | Nov 13, 2014 | Featured, Glass Ceiling, Innovation, Leadership, Women
Study after study has shown that diversity in the workplace has significant impacts on an organization’s employee morale, productivity and profitability. Yet, at the same time, we continue to see upstream challenges to the participation of women in those industries...