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Women work hard, and often a lot harder than men, by gaining extra qualifications and skills or achieving higher performance standards and taking on extra projects. Women do this not...

According to the United Nations (2011), women are underrepresented not only as voters and as elected officials, but also in leadership roles in the private sector, civil service and in...

It starts with a mental shift. You have a new job, and it requires different skills and ways of measuring success....

We are all leaders in some capacity. Some people have very clearly defined leadership titles in their work (i.e. manager, director, VP, C-suite roles, etc.), while others’ titles don’t reflect...

Strategically sequencing facts and emotion considers the audience’s needs and what they (not the teller) will find persuasive. Because leadership storytelling occurs in a business context, it naturally incorporates many...

Before making big changes, it’s important to meet both individually and as a group with your new colleagues and employees to suss out potential pitfalls, uncover new options, or identify...

Let’s turn an idea on its head. Leadership isn’t positional. Leaders exist without titles, a corner office, a gold nameplate and a TED Talk. Why then, do we continue to...

Though women are visible and prominent in nonprofits, those who aspire to leadership – especially racialized and immigrant women, Indigenous women, and women living with disabilities – continue to face...

These LinkedIn thought leaders – including job search coaches and strategies, founders and managers – regularly share advice on job search, career fit, workplace culture and more....

Immigrants may have made progress reaching the first rung on their career ladder in Canada, but they are getting nowhere near the C-suites, a new report says. Among the leading...