Celebrating Stanford’s White Feminism

Celebrating Stanford’s White Feminism

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...
Why You Need to Network Strategically

Why You Need to Network Strategically

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 Future of Women: Build Businesses and Be Moms

The Future of Women: Build Businesses and Be Moms

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....
4 Ways Ambition Can Get in the Way of Your Success

4 Ways Ambition Can Get in the Way of Your Success

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 Day James Made an Introduction

The Day James Made an Introduction

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....