Giving good feedback is hard — especially when the person receiving it suffers from Impostor Syndrome, which makes them inordinately sensitive to anything they may perceive as criticism. Impostors’ mental and emotional boundaries are not sufficiently strong, so they...
Last year, I held a workshop session with employees at my daughter’s company to explore Impostor Syndrome. These employees are high-achievers, yet they complained of feeling anxiety, stress, and overwhelm — and they believed these feelings were getting in the way of...
A few years ago, I was advising a thriving startup with over a hundred employees. The CEO asked me to help initiate a search for a new CFO. His goal was to hire a woman. At the time, the executive team at the startup was composed of three men and one woman. For a new...
A few days ago, my biracial daughter Mariah posted an email from her white, 88-year-old grandfather (my Dad) on Twitter: An email from my white grandfather 💛 I’m scared too, papa. pic.twitter.com/MufCh63LWZ — mariah (@Mariah__Driver) May 29, 2020 The...
My first job out of college was as a software engineer for a computer graphics firm. It was a plum role in an industry that was just emerging in the late 1980s—just at the time when the first spreadsheets and word processors were being developed. As you might...