2020 has been enlightening, thought-provoking, validating, and downright exceptional in all the best and worst ways. But one thing stands unique among the rest. The unexpected gift of personal connection in the absence of physical connection.

While we have been joyously living and working and schooling together, on top of one another, day in and day out for 266 days (give or take), I failed to calculate the realities of this cooperative and creative togetherness project at a time when togetherness is not what we are lacking

Unicorn Space. Doesn’t this sound like a beautiful mental and physical space, albeit mythical, to frolic and flourish? It conjures up something untouchable and fantastical, that only certain highly qualified and privileged people could possibly find.

Today is the first day of the last year in my forties. Meh.

What the F*ck happened to this last decade? I’ve hardly come up for air from my 40th birthday and yet suddenly this decade is now coming to a close

Happy Father’s Day to my father in heaven, and to all the fathers who have the love, strength, conviction, and confidence to uplift and support the strong women in their lives to pursue lives well lived.

Silence doesn’t always imply that someone doesn’t care or doesn’t understand or disagrees with the issues at hand. Instead, silence comes from a place of fear and exposure. We are afraid that we will expose our ignorance on hard topics like race, especially to people whose life experience make them more fluent on this topic.

Let’s be real. Again.

The leaders of the future look nothing like the leaders of the past. And, let’s hope, the leaders of today undergo an evolution that will enable the workforce of the future to be everything that we expect and hope for them to be. We ARE counting on them.

Hey, it's 2020. This is what we know.

Peru over the last two decades has seen a continued rise in the number of women entrepreneurs in part as a result of several business and government partnerships, like Dreambuilder, which assist in providing free access to business training for women.

Whether you are reading it out of curiosity on what will drive the needle for gender equality or reading because you were a fan of Bill Gates and want to see what his wife has been up to, it really doesn’t matter. Just read it, and read ALL of it. She has spelled out perfectly, in three simple to follow strategies, what we need to do NOW to reach gender equality.

Everything has a label these days.

When it comes to gender topics (most especially those associated with women) we see this negative rhetoric all the time. We hear things about the motherhood penalty, the double burden syndrome, and the stalled gender revolution.

To increase gender balance means to begin tackling a series of interconnected issues that span structural, psychological, and societal realms. Companies are mini cultures and each company has its own customs, habits, norms, and challenges.

Pay close attention to the quiet people, the people that may not speak up or speak out on gender equality. This group of people may be your single most important asset in your quest to achieve gender balance at the organizational level

Does that title piss you off? Well, it should.

It’s time we change the narrative on “flex-work” and look deeply at what it is, who it benefits, and why it’s possibly the single most important requirement for today’s modern worker

The resolute women of Gen X are not shying away from the hard work, instead they are confronting outdated historical norms head on and cementing new foundations upon which future generations can build their craft and flourish.