by Joanne | Mar 9, 2023 | Communication Skills, Confidence, Fear, Gender Diversity, Women's Leadership
I’ve been blessed to work with a lot of powerful women over my life. From my fellow female engineers just starting out in our first jobs to the Space Shuttle astronauts (Shannon Lucid & Judy Resnick) to my incredible coaching clients, I learned a lot...
by Joanne | Oct 17, 2019 | Confidence, Fear, Uncategorized, Women's Leadership
NOTE: This is a rerun of an article I posted back in 2016 and still applies today. Connection is vital! A Girl Squad that is. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Taylor Swift has assembled quite an entourage of helpful girlfriends. The squad seems to keep...
by Joanne | Feb 20, 2019 | Confidence, Life purpose, Women's Leadership
NOTE: This article was originally posted on the Ellevate Medium page. What do you do BRILLIANTLY? Do you know? I’ll take a wild guess and say you’d probably have to give it some thought. Not many people know the answer to this question off the top of their head. And,...
by Joanne | Dec 19, 2018 | Gender Diversity, gender pay equity, STEM, Women's Leadership
When I got out of college, jobs were hard to come by. Think things were bad during the last recession? Apparently, it was even worse in the early eighties when I got out.[1] So to all the Millennials out there – don’t come cryin’ to me.I graduated from a good...
by Joanne | Jun 13, 2018 | Communication Skills, Women's Leadership, workshop
This article has appeared on Entrepreneur, Thrive Global, and Medium. Karen’s safely back at her desk now, sitting in her ‘not quite comfortable enough’ office chair and fuming. “What just happened back there? she wonders. And, how could it have happened again?” Her...
by Joanne | Nov 10, 2017 | Gender Diversity, STEM, Women's Leadership
I was wondering this myself, so I interviewed 100 of them. The results were confirming and, at times, a bit depressing. What a cool bunch of women they are – from academic researchers to AI auto designers to engineers of all types. I asked them all of the...
