Nina Nets It Out
Leadership is not the end point; its task is to create an environment in which other leaders can flourish. Let the conversation begin!
Do Women in Leadership Offer More Opportunities for their Female Employees?
Do women in leadership pave the way for other women? Or is the opposite true?
Leveraging Female Talent to Drive Innovation
One of the most significant factors limiting the growth potential of countries around the world is the fundamental participation and engagement of women in their workforce. The second annual research study by Mercer on gender diversity in the workplace suggests that...
Women in Leadership: Raji Kumar and the Dallas Medical Center Turnaround
When it comes to women in leadership, there are many cases where women show unique and valuable leadership styles based in both their gender and cultural identities.
The Four Styles of Mentoring
People often picture a mentor as someone older or at least someone who has been in a particular business for a long time, but mentoring is not always about age or the number of years of experience a particular person has in a certain field. Instead, mentoring is about...
Five Steps to Building a Responsive Organization
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...
Great Tech Doesn’t Guarantee Innovation
Throughout my career I have seen some amazing technology come to life. I have been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the great business leaders of the 20th and 21st Centuries, witnessed their creativity and ingenuity first hand, and watched as those...
Take Steps to Crack the Glass Ceiling
We still have some way to go before we can honestly claim to have shattered the glass ceiling. That invisible barrier between minorities and women that prevents access to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder still requires our attention and action. The Economist’s...
New Horizons
This week I start in a new role as Chief Product Officer, leading global product and commercialization strategy for NTT Innovation Institute (NTT i3). NTT i3 is the Silicon Valley-based open innovation and applied research and development center of NTT Group. I will...
Women Who Lead
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....
The Three Ms of Mentoring
Mentoring is one of those strange, unknowable beasts. It can be hard to do, difficult to explain, but can have enormous benefits for all involved. Both mentors and mentees find significant value in the process – but it’s more like a dance and less like a business...
Is the Digital Age Over and, If So, What “Age” are We in Now?
In speaking with colleagues recently, the question came up as to whether or not we are now post the Digital Age and, if we are, what would we call this next wave?
Four Steps to Encourage Young Women into Tech Careers
Study after study has shown that diversity in the workplace has significant impacts on an organization’s employee morale, productivity and profitability.
Subscribe