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…
Celena Roldán is used to heading where the trouble is—to Texas with Hurricane Harvey, Puerto Rico with Hurricane Maria, California when wildfires scorched that state—and rolling up her sleeves to help. As CEO of the American Red Cross of Illinois, she has deployed five times in four years to deliver disaster relief wherever it was…
Here’s a plan for dealing with a global pandemic: Step 1: Pull out the playbook. Step 2: Apply playbook to dynamic situation requiring quick decisions based on incomplete information. Step 3: Tear up playbook. Welcome to the work life of Michelle Dilley, Chief Operating Officer for CJ/DSC Logistics, who oversees the intricate, high-speed flow of…
Despite impressive progress in certain industry sectors, a 2019 study of women leaders in the U.S. aviation industry overall raises concerns about the lack of opportunities for women to advance, and also whether the current pipeline of female leaders is robust enough to sustain the progress that has been made to date. The study—”Soaring Through…