The Charting a Course to Success: Overcoming Career Limiting Barriers interactive workshop is designed to help women identify, understand, and overcome the barriers that can limit career growth. Participants will explore the unique obstacles faced in the workplace and gain practical tools to navigate them.

Use this model to say NOPE to the things that are getting in your way.

Gender pay and opportunity gaps still exist in all workforce sectors including the government, higher education and corporate America. And the gender parity gap cannot be attributed to just one factor or one phase of the journey. While career limiting barriers do exist at the individual level, women face institutional barriers that lead to a lack of opportunities for career advancement.

Women’s careers are influenced by a combination of systemic barriers that arise from social structures and societal norms and personal barriers or individual factors that can affect how women approach their careers. This article shares some proactive steps you can take to navigate existing challenges while advocating for systemic improvements.

The Leveraging Your ERG presentation and exercise provides a framework to strategically leverage your engagement in an ERG in support of your personal development and career goals.  The goal is to boost ERG engagement by demonstrating the benefits.

This tool is designed for ERG leaders and members.  ERG leaders can deliver this to members as a way to encourage active participation in the ERG.

The role of an ERG leader requires a lot of passion, time and commitment. And most of us aren’t sitting around with lots of spare time on our hands. But all that effort and energy comes with significant ROI.

Joining and actively engaging in a company-sponsored Employee Resource Group can be a great development tool and career enhancer. Most Employee Resource Groups have specific goals in place to provide development opportunities to their members. Here are some tips and strategies you can use in order to make the most of your ERG membership.

Redesigning your role after maternity leave can lead to career acceleration but it means setting clear goals, forensically analyzing how you spend your time, consciously not doing things that aren’t core to meeting your goals, over-communicating, and then course-correcting when required.

One of the most effective ways to develop yourself and move your career forward is to look for internal career mobility opportunities. Here are some tips and strategies you can use in order to make the most of these opportunities and to ensure you are seriously considered for internal promotion.

The Who is in my Network Worksheet is a resource to help you identify the people in your network who can support your career goals. The worksheet is broken out into three segments: (1) your personal network; (2) your workplace network and; (3) your professional network.

The resources inventory is a tool to help you identify the variety of resources that are available to support your development and your achievement of career goals.

If you’re more of a Warren Buffett than a Donald Trump, and more of a Greta Garbo than a Madonna, you’ve come to the right place. It’s time for you to get recognized and compensated for your gifts. Rather than buying into the common misconceptions about introverts, you’ll apply your quiet strengths to raise your visibility in a way that feels right for you. Read more

Your personal brand matters. Here are some tip for building a positive personal brand aligned with your goals and positions you for success.

Your personal brand starts with your personal value statement. This tool provides a template, example, and worksheet for crafting your personal brand value statement.

The Skills and Strengths Inventory is a resource to help you identify the skills and strengths that make you a valuable asset. Use this tool as a way to build self-confidence, self-reliance, and guide you along your career path.

While diversity and inclusion practitioners continue to fight this battle from a systemic standpoint, at the individual level you need to take control of your own career advancement. As you navigate your career journey, there are huge advantages associated with self-advocacy.  Here’s how …

Don’t leave your career in the hands of your manager – take control. Self-advocacy is a key success factor but needs to be done right to be effective. Here are some dos and don’ts of self-advocacy.

Your personal brand matters. Your brand should convey the unique combination of skills, experiences, values, and personality that make you, you. Crafting your brand has many benefits including…

The mere idea of self-promotion can be extremely uncomfortable for most people.  This exercise uses the art of storytelling – specifically telling someone else’s story – as a way to practice the art of personal promotion, view your success through another person’s eyes and utilize that story to craft a more powerful version of your own story.

We all have bias. In fact, the actual definition is quite neutral. Bias is a natural function of the human mind that is defined as the tendency or inclination to make a judgment without question, which can be in favor of or against something or someone.  This tool is intended to help you P.A.U.S.E. in order to take the actions that are in your best interest. Whether you are certain that you experiencing negative bias or you just have a nagging sense that there is something off, these strategies will provide you with a road map on what to do.

The Overcoming Bias Discussion guide is a full agenda for conducting a meeting around unconscious bias. The tool is designed to help individuals recognize situations where bias may have impacted their career progress.

Strategic networking is essential for personal growth, business development and knowledge exchange. Taking a strategic approach to building your network helps uncover and leverage new opportunities for yourself and your organization.

The Circle of Influencers model and worksheet provides a framework for individuals to build a network that will be instrumental in achieving their strategic goals.  This tool can be used independently or as a companion piece to the Strategic Networking Presentation.