In January 2020, the Cornoavirus wasn’t on the global radar, unemployment in the U.S. was low, and the economy appeared strong. Despite those factors, the Edelman Trust Barometer revealed that of people surveyed globally 56% believed that capitalism was doing more harm than good.

After watching video of Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck as he pleads for breath, for life, for mercy, we’re left with a sickness in our bellies. A question arises after seeing this cavalier indifference to life play out again and again, “Is America worth fighting for?” …

Trust is a big, ongoing topic for organizations. The questions typically revolve around how to create it, sustain it, and what breaks it. Trust, like most things in life, is about the small everyday moments and less about the big, one-time, crazy events. …

It’s getting real in here. — In 2017, we saw sexual assault scandals cause heads of powerful men in media, entertainment, and politics roll all across America. Every day, men are questioning themselves. They’re looking at their past behaviors and wondering if they’ve said or done something that was offensive or demeaning to women. …

In a culture that prizes striving and achievement over family, health and personal sanity, scarcity rules. There is never enough time and you are the least important part of the equation. This often-repeated statement tells the harsh truth, “Everyone can be replaced.” Guilt thrives in the environment of “not enough.”…

The blind spot in James Damore’s Google manifesto — A recently-fired Google engineer James Damore penned a 10-page manifesto about the problems he sees with diversity and inclusion efforts at Google. I doubt seeing the document go viral was his objective, but the toothpaste is now out of the tube so let’s push it around the sink. Damore makes…

What makes following that small voice difficult? In early February 2016, I had just successfully organized the conference Women Redefining Entrepreneurship at Cornell University. It was my first time doing anything with that many moving parts and not only had we sold out, but had a waiting list. Despite my chronically running late 10 minutes to everything…

The One Billion Challenge to Patriarchy Recently a dude wrote to Mayor Steve Adler of Austin, Texas to express his outrage about a woman-only screening of Wonder Woman. My first inclination was to roll my eyes and dismiss him as yet another thin-skinned ignoramus. …

An interview with Purva Gupta, the founder of Lily — Join us on Purva Gupta’s journey from an insecure teen with an acute stammer in India to becoming a woman with a chic sense of style in America who started Lily — a fashion app that uses machine learning to help women close the confidence gap through their clothes shopping…