Oct 7, 2024 | Career Success, Resilience
What do you do when faced with a difficult choice between two deeply valued alternatives? A choice that feels like you are sacrificing one for the other, like juggling career and family? I recently faced such a decision. For decades, my primary focus has been my work...
Nov 2, 2023 | Career Success, Leadership Barriers
Women leaders reached an historic milestone in 2023 when 10 percent of the CEOs at Fortune 500 companies were women, according to an article in Forbes. This represents a significant shift from prior years when only one or two women were on the list.the leadership...
Apr 28, 2022 | Career Success, Leadership, Resilient Leader Way
Baby Boomer women began entering the workforce in droves starting in the early 1960s. A few years later in 1978, psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes coined the phrase Imposter Syndrome to describe feelings of self-doubt many leaders experience,...
Nov 15, 2021 | Career Success, Leadership
In general, women leaders tend to navigate toward working hard, consensus building, and being a part of the team as opposed to promoting themselves within their organization to obtain social capital and gain advancement. This is one reason there are fewer women in key...
Oct 26, 2021 | Career Success, Leadership
For most healthcare leaders, the pandemic required focusing only on the challenges at hand and many programs considered non-essential were paused. The California Association of Healthcare Leaders recognizes the ongoing need to develop our leaders and continues to...
Oct 19, 2021 | Career Success, Resilience, Resilient Leader Way
When team members are drained, how can you as a physician leader muster up the enthusiasm for them to keep going? The opening scene from The Gladiator comes to mind. Russel Crowe’s character charges on his horse up and down the line of Roman soldiers firing them up...