Tomorrow, I leave for Bangalore to participate at the Advancement of women global conference in India. I started to work on programming this conference in Nov,2008. It was just an idea at that time. To realize what would be relevant to women in India, I started to have conversations with women from all industries and [...]

Many times people have come and told me “Boys will be boys and Girls will be girls”. The way I have been dealing with people who stereotype kids is by ignoring these statements. I would like to believe this but my own experiences while growing up have been quite different. I never liked playing with [...]

At the PWC Diversity Leadership conference in New York, I had the opportunity to meet Malcolm Gladwell. (I am huge fan). His new book, Outliers, which I have already written about in a previous post, was the foundation from which he spoke. Here is what he said, “Hard work is not a precious commodity”. I [...]

Women who are mothers and mostly gripped with guilt. For humans, guilt is the most crippling of emotions. This explains why women find it hard to deal with guilt in regards to raising their kids. In a recent event, where we celebrated 30 years of working mothers, many women mentioned that this emotion of guilt [...]

On my recent trip to New York, Carol Evans, CEO and President of Working Mother Media, invited me to participate in a discussion with Iraqi women delegate. I was thrilled at the opportunity. As I entered the room where they were sitting, I found myself gravitating to them. I really wanted to know so much [...]

At the Diversity Leadership Forum, I was asked the following question: Do you think a new generation of people leading diversity? Do you think Gen Y leaders would approach these topics differently? According to Wikipedia, Generation Y is approximately a third of the US population currently. In passing, I heard that a fifth of Generation [...]

Bad times don’t last: good people do – This is topic of the conference, where I can speaking tomorrow. I am participating in a panel namely, Exploring Talent Opportunities . A few other people on the panel who are there are Carol Evans, Ted Childs, Ilene Lang. The panel explores – What is diversity? Why [...]