For all the back and forth over DEI right now, most businesses recognize a simple truth: the workplace continues to get more diverse and the need for equity in the workplace isn’t going anywhere. At the same time, the need for white male allies is greater than...
Now that I’m through it, I wanted to share some tips I wish I knew before I started: 1. Pitch vision or traction, but never both A few months into our raise, we were stuck. We’d gotten over 40 no’s and my morale was at an all-time low. I got connected...
Why am I writing this? I wrote in 2021 about the challenges of considering starting a family alongside being a founder of your own business. As the co-founder of a Venture Capital fund called Ada Ventures, then only 18 months old, the topic of taking...
We recently chatted with Fran Hauser, author of The Myth of the Nice Girl, which came out in 2018 and was Audible’s Top Business Book of the Year of 2018, and Embrace the Work, Love your Career, stemming from decades working in senior leadership positions at Time...
Many variables get in the way of identifying the people who could make great leaders. The lack of a clear and consistent framework, and of alignment behind that framework, is a significant obstacle. Bias is another. Let’s take gender bias, for example....
