by Nina | Mar 2, 2026 | Leadership, Women
The advice has been given a thousand times, in a thousand boardrooms, to a thousand women who didn’t need to hear it: be more confident. Speak up more. Project more authority. This framing – executive presence as a personal performance issue, something a...
by Nina | Nov 3, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Women
The pressure to keep pace with AI is undeniable. But here’s the deeper challenge: our leadership models haven’t kept up. In boardrooms, executive coaching sessions, and MBA classrooms, we’re still teaching frameworks rooted in pre-digital thinking – linear,...
by Nina | May 7, 2025 | Leadership
Leadership doesn’t thrive in silence. As much as we’d like it to, leadership doesn’t emerge from a slide deck or a single standout individual. Leadership flourishes – or fails – based on the culture that surrounds it. And yet, too often, we pour time and...
by Nina | Oct 30, 2023 | Growth Mindset, Leadership, Women
For many years I have been interested in the leadership mindset. And while I have written and read about the topic, it keeps pulling me back. In almost every meeting I take, I’m looking for that sparkle in the eye. I am listening for the words or the passion that...
by Nina | Mar 22, 2015 | Change Management, Crisis Management, Featured, Negotiation, Podcasts
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...
