I received a call last week from a woman who had participated in SHAMBAUGH’s Women in Leadership and Learning(WILL) Program nearly two decades ago, soon after the program was founded. The participant, Carol, shared with me that the insights, tools, and coaching that she had gained during the session had made an incredible difference in how […]

October 5 marked the one-year anniversary of the #MeToo Movement. It’s time to examine how far we have come since then, and why we haven’t made more progress: Let’s start with some facts. A new studyshows that only around a third (34 percent) of women and men surveyed say they are willing to address unwanted behavior […]

I was interviewed last month for a Harvard Business Review podcast (HBR IdeaCast) on the topic of “Managing Someone Who’s Too Collaborative.” During this discussion with HBR’s Sarah Green Carmichael, I shared coaching insights on this tricky subject, which is important to understand not just when you’re managing an employee who fits this description, but when you are […]

Organizations across Corporate America espouse having a meritocracy—and in my discussions with many companies and executives, it’s clear they believe that they do. But can a true meritocracy exist if you have operated in an environment in which one gender has the majority of the power and sets the norm? In the work we do […]