In May 2020, after many meetings providing detailed feedback, I posted the following essay about my disturbing experience at the previous year’s Women in Management (WIM) banquet at Stanford’s business school. Despite prior approval to post, I was asked to take...
To put it lightly, Naomi Osaka’s decision to withdraw from the French Open shocked a lot of people this week. In a two-page post on her official Instagram account, Osaka opened up about experiencing bouts of depression since the 2018 US Open....
Alana Karen wrote Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay to diversify the stories we hear of women navigating their careers in tech. With a clear message of ‘you belong in tech’, she continues to explore that narrative. She sat down with...
Are you networking strategically? When I was in my early twenties I had a supervisor tell me to be in as many organizations and boards as possible to “network.” I signed up for nine boards and was super busy running to all of the meetings. Each week my...
The #1 question I receive from working moms is, “Allison, how do you build businesses and still be an awesome mom?” My answer never changes…stop trying to do it all. 8 years ago on my first day back from maternity leave I had to fire an insubordinate employee....
Is ambition critical to success or can it block it? That climb to the top can not only filled with rickety ladder rungs but if you’re not careful, can lead you not to success, but empty air and a dangerous drop. Here are four classic ways that ambition can get...
The pandemic impacted businesses of all kinds across the country, but it was particularly stressful for women entrepreneurs. The U.S. lost 140,000 jobs in December 2020, all of which were held by women. On top of that, the pandemic forced many mothers to help their...
When I was a kid, I remember reading a book of short stories called Free To Be… A Family. One of those stories, The Day Dad Made Toast, told the tale of a family celebrating a father who decided to go all-out and make cinnamon toast on the weekend, to help pitch in....
What if your habits were the secret to a healthy work-life balance? Routines are the perfect tool for resilient people because they can help you change amid a global pandemic. And here’s how. I started looking at routines with a fresh perspective in April 2020 and...
It’s now long overdue for women thriving in technology to be the norm, rather than the exception. The numbers still highlight the frustratingly long battle we’ve got ahead of us, with The European Commission estimating that only 17% of IT specialists are female. In...