Any woman in a leadership role understands the unique challenges that we women leaders face in today’s fiercely competitive business world. But if you take a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come – and where we stand today – it may give you...
I recently conducted a special executive presence development seminar for top talent at a multinational Fortune 500 company. While doing my background research I came across a great article about the struggles that women face in their careers, despite so much collective effort to create...
The newest professional development trend is focused on cultivating women leaders to not only ascend into higher-level positions but also become game changers for their teams, organizations, and industries. I find that many large corporations have established new women's affinity leadership networks for the sole...
Sarah Hathorn and Dawn Stanyon discuss the upcoming AICI Annual conference Tell me what you think! Post a comment on below. Do you want to use this blog article? You may, as long as you include this complete bio with it: Sarah Hathorn is a leadership development mentor, executive...
How do you play your biggest game on the way to becoming an iconic rock star of your industry? You must leverage your business brand and implement innovative marketing tools to flourish where others fail! Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS, will share how you can create...
For more than 30 years I’ve coached and mentored women who are top-caliber Fortune 500 executives and high-level entrepreneurs. Meanwhile during that whole time I was either a Fortune 100 senior executive or the founding CEO of my own successful consulting firm. Many things have changed for women in the workplace over the years, but as the saying goes “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” What I’m referring to here is the sad fact that, even in this advanced era of the 21st century, negative stereotypes about women in executive positions stubbornly persist.
This month in the Wall Street Journal there was an intriguing and somewhat unsettling article, “Coaching Urged for Women.” The piece revealed that according to a new McKinsey & Company...
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This could be the most important call in your life for unlocking your career potential As a great military strategist once said, “You can defeat any enemy except the one that has outposts in your head.” There’s no doubt about it – the most challenging obstacle...