As a fresh year opens, it feels like time to hope once more. In December, I attended a two-day summit and special exhibit hosted by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Both the summit and the exhibit focused on what Hillary called “the unfinished business of the 21st…
A recent panel discussion about leadership with women who’ve been pioneers in three different fields underscored the importance of being both genuine and flexible in moving forward through uncertain times. The panel was part of a January 2021 weekly leadership update hosted by ABM’s Aviation Group for leaders and managers. ABM’s Aviation Group provides an…
I remember my grandmother taking me to see On the Basis of Sex when I was 11. Leaving the movie, I told her, “Maybe I want to be a lawyer, too.” I hadn’t even thought of that before seeing the movie. Now I’m 14, but I still might be a lawyer one day. Ruth Bader…
She was a flight attendant who became the first female manager of the airline that hired her. When a start-up named FedEx hired her as their first female executive, she grew their service network from 43 locations to 173 while leading a team of 23,000 employees. She was a turn-around artist brought in to transform…
Most people think the key to a successful career is what you know—where you went to school, what you studied, the grades you got. Research, though, is showing the more crucial factor is who we know—our social networks—because those networks are how we navigate possibilities. And then, if you’re a woman, there’s one element more….
On May 30, 2020, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley climbed aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon rocket and blasted into history. Their flight to the International Space Station (ISS) was a first in many ways: The first U.S. crewed flight in nine years. The first to launch from U.S. soil since 2011. The first…