The Main Agenda Micro-Retirements Are On The Rise. Here’s What HR Leaders Need To Know Why are some high-performing employees walking away from their jobs for weeks or even months at a time—voluntarily? The...
The Main Agenda Women Preparing For End-of-Year Reviews: How To Frame Wins That Aren’t Obvious As the calendar year winds down and performance review season approaches, many of us feel the pressure: how do...
The Main Agenda Here’s What Your Calendar Says About Your Boundaries And How To Fix It Every week, you review your calendar and it’s packed. Meetings back-to-back, quick check-ins, email time, then more meetings. Your lunch is just a block... By: Janell Hazelwood, MAOL · 1 week ago
The Main Agenda 4 Nutritional Hacks For Managing Jet Lag During Your Work Trip Traveling for work is great for professional growth but often bad for your body clock. Dealing with jet lag while you’re preparing for a... By: Mia Barnes · 1 week ago
Career Why Rage Applying Feels Good, But Rarely Gets You The Job You Want More and more people are showing how they feel when work gets on their nerves. Many send out a flurry of job applications to... By: Mia Barnes · 1 week ago
Career What To Consider Before Referring A Friend For A Job You’ve probably seen it all over LinkedIn — “Referrals are everything in job searching.” While referring a good friend to a workplace may help... By: Mia Barnes · 1 week ago
The Main Agenda How Women Leaders Prioritize Mental Health During The Q4 Push Welcome to Q4, where momentum ramps up, inboxes fill, deadlines tighten, and expectations skyrocket. For many leaders, the final months of the year are... By: Kelsey Kryger · 2 weeks ago
ADHD In Women: A Career Superpower Or Detriment? Unpacking ADHD in women: Why common symptoms are misdiagnosed & how masking leads to burnout. Use neurodivergence as a...
The Main Agenda Q4 Is The Perfect Time To Prepare Your Goals For 2026 As the year closes and things become final, Q4 is the perfect time to gather your goals and set...
The Main Agenda Why Most Millennials Aren’t 9-To-5 Workers In these times of creating your own lane, it appears that millennials have taken that notion and ran with it. Many things like the... By: Candis McDow · 2 weeks ago
The Main Agenda Why Every Freelancer Needs An End-of-Year Business Review The end of the year is approaching. For businesses and corporations, that is synonymous with end-of-year reviews — individual and performance-based as well as... By: IMAN M'FAH TRAORE · 3 weeks ago
The Main Agenda How To Build Seasonal Side Projects To Boost Q4 Income And Portfolio Growth As the calendar inches toward November, many professionals shift into year-end mode: tying up loose ends, closing projects, and preparing for holiday slowdowns or... By: Luisana Rodríguez · 4 weeks ago
The Main Agenda Black Women’s Unemployment Is Rising. How Should We Talk About It? Many people are feeling the impact of a particularly tough job market, with more and more people losing their jobs in recent months. But... By: Marissa Braswell · 4 weeks ago
The Main Agenda The Power Of ‘No’: Why Freelancers Must Set Boundaries To Protect Their Well-Being Freelancing is more popular now than ever. In fact, researchers found that the number of freelancers increased by 90% between 2020 and 2024. Freelancing... By: IMAN M'FAH TRAORE · 1 month ago
The Main Agenda How To Build Outdoor Movement Into Work Days During Beautiful Fall Weather Symbolically, autumn has always been the season of reset. What better way to align with this shift than to...
The Main Agenda How To Kick Off Q4 With Energy After A Slow Summer As the year winds down many women find themselves running on empty. When the days shorten and temperatures drop,...
The Main Agenda How To Seamlessly Re-Integrate Into Fast-Paced Work Environments After A Sabbatical I took my first extended sabbatical over a decade ago; it was a six-month journey through South and Central America. Since then, I’ve taken... By: Caitlin Elizabeth · 1 month ago
The Main Agenda How to Use Guided Journaling To Transition Mindset From Relaxed To Refocused Business phases ebb and flow. It may slow down during a restorative vacation or an intentional recharge, but then comes the return — the... By: Mia Barnes · 1 month ago
The Main Agenda How To Scale Your Business Without A Team The solo entrepreneur movement is surging. According to a 2024 Intuit study, 65 % of solopreneurs earn more working for themselves than as employees,... By: Taylor Bushey · 2 months ago
The Main Agenda The Rise Of Women’s Financial Book Clubs Women’s financial book clubs are definitely on the rise, creating positive space where women come to read, discuss, and take action on topics related... By: Candis McDow · 2 months ago
Career Advice How Women Are Negotiating Hybrid Leadership Roles When offices began reopening after the pandemic, some organizations demanded a full return, while others slowly adopted hybrid setups. However, leadership expectations seemed to... By: Tyerra Drake · 2 months ago
The Main Agenda How Nevadia Shelton Grew Glossed By Nae Into A Beauty Brand Rooted In Care Inspired by her mother’s struggle with Lyme disease, Nevadia Shelton launched Glossed By Nae from her college dorm room...
The Main Agenda How Eugenia Cheng Is Redefining What It Means To Be A Mathematician Eugenia Cheng wears many hats: mathematician, pianist, professor, author and scientist-in-residence at The School of The Art Institute of...
The Main Agenda 5 Things You Need To Do This Fall To Close Out The Final Quarter Strong Every fall, as I sit at a cafe — drinking some sort of pumpkin spice concoction, with a dozen tabs open on my laptop—... By: Janell Hazelwood, MAOL · 2 months ago
The Main Agenda How To Leverage Interim Leadership As A Career Strategy A manager quits, a director goes on parental leave, and a critical project needs leadership. Now, who steps up? As LHH explains in this... By: Luisana Rodríguez · 2 months ago
The Main Agenda Routines + Rituals: Yunice Emir, Head of Corporate Communications And Experiential Partnerships At Moët Hennessy USA For Yunice Emir, optimism is more than a mindset — it’s her superpower. With over 15 years of experience spanning corporate communications, social responsibility,... By: Gillian Smith · 3 months ago
Power Agenda A Peek Inside Her Agenda: Susan Dominus Poet and Yale University Lecturer Richard Deming describes his colleague and award-winning New York Times Magazine staff writer Susan Dominus as “one of the... By: Kiara Manning · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda Routines + Rituals: Vanessa James, Founder And CEO Of Vanessa James Media Vanessa James has built a career on the power of her voice, though her path to becoming “the voice you hear everywhere” was anything... By: Gillian Smith · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda Inside The Daily Acts Of Courage That Define Women Leaders Confidence is often treated like a personality trait: you either have or you don’t. In practice, the most trusted...
The Main Agenda Routines + Rituals: Tracey Baker-Simmons, Executive Producer Of Baker Simmons Media For more than two decades, Tracey Baker-Simmons has built a career rooted in authenticity and storytelling. The Emmy-nominated producer...
The Main Agenda How Women Of Color Are Redefining Executive Presence On Wall Street Wall Street has long had a narrow view of what executive presence looks like: crisp suits, firm handshakes, and polished diction wrapped in a... By: Kehinde Adepetun · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda Routines + Rituals: Winter Henderson, Principal Consultant, Brilliant Parlour Communications LLC For Winter Henderson, living with purpose means embracing change, leading with faith, and caring for herself as intentionally as she cares for her work.... By: Gillian Smith · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda Women Who Transitioned From Corporate Life To Purpose‑Driven Work Career success is traditionally defined as having a stable, professional job, ideally one that comes with a high salary, status, and accolades. For many... By: Giovanna Acosta · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda What To Do When You’re Over-Mentored And Under-Sponsored Most women don’t know the difference between mentorship and sponsorship. Mentors guide, while sponsors actively advocate on your behalf. This distinction matters, especially when... By: Caitlin Elizabeth · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda How To Design Your Ideal In-Office Day For Hybrid Work Optimization Going back to the office can be a shock after years of working from home. Even a hybrid schedule can feel jarring and hard... By: Caitlin Elizabeth · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda 4 Women On Breaking Into High-Paying, High-Barrier Industries Everyday women are redefining what traditional exclusive, and predominantly white and male dominated fields look like. There are no...
The Main Agenda How Black Women Are Building Personal Brands That Don’t Compromise Their Values Building a brand is no easy feat. Add building a brand as a Black woman in America, and imagine...
The Main Agenda Routines + Rituals: Gabrielle Gambrell, Chief Communications Officer For Hachette Book Group For Gabrielle Gambrell, success begins each morning with gratitude. Before diving into the demands of leading communications for one of the world’s largest publishing... By: Gillian Smith · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda How Women Are Advocating For Mental Health PTO In The Workplace A once-taboo subject is finally getting its due. Mental health can range from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and so much more. While most jobs... By: Candis McDow · 4 months ago
The Main Agenda How Women Manage Perimenopause Symptoms While Working Full-Time You already juggle deadlines, emails and Zoom fatigue — and now your hormones have entered the group chat. Here’s how women deal with the... By: Mia Barnes · 4 months ago
The Main Agenda What Women Should Know Before Advocating For A Four-Day Workweek The idea of the four-day workweek is gaining momentum. In The American Psychological Association’s 2024 Work in America survey, 22% of respondents stated their... By: Giovanna Acosta · 4 months ago
The Main Agenda How Women Entrepreneurs Are Managing The Mental Load Of Business And Caregiving Being a business owner is demanding. Add caregiving into the mix, whether for children, aging parents, or both and the invisible weight of it... By: Kehinde Adepetun · 4 months ago
The Main Agenda 7 Strategies For Women To Break Into The C-Suite Even though women make up nearly half the workforce, they remain vastly underrepresented in C-suite leadership positions. According to...
The Main Agenda 3 Good Reasons Teachers Should Embrace, Not Shun, AI In K-12 Education In today’s ever-changing educational landscape, using AI in K-12 education is no longer an optional futuristic concept — it’s...
Growth & Scaling How Women Are Launching Their Most Successful Startups After 40 At 40-plus, many women are embracing entrepreneurship in ways they never did in their 20s or 30s. With decades of experience, stronger financial footing,... By: Kehinde Adepetun · 5 months ago
The Main Agenda How Janelle Farris Has Quietly, But Powerfully, Reshaped Brooklyn Communities Janelle Farris is the first African American woman to lead Brooklyn Community Services, a 159-year old organization that provides services and resources such as... By: Candis McDow · 5 months ago
The Main Agenda The Role Of Technology In Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Women-owned businesses now represent 39.1% of all businesses (over 14 million) and employ 12.2 million workers, generating $2.7 trillion in revenue in the US,... By: Taylor Bushey · 5 months ago
The Main Agenda The Impact Of Remote Work On Women’s Career Advancement When the world shifted to remote work during the pandemic, it sparked a radical change in how we view productivity, flexibility, and work-life balance.... By: Luisana Rodríguez · 5 months ago
The Main Agenda Leigh Burgess Tells Us How To Live The BOLD Way Leigh Burgess is a “USA Today” bestselling author (Be BOLD Today), a seven-figure entrepreneur, and co-founder of Bold Industries Group. Through her “BOLD Framework” (Believe-Own-Learn-Design),... By: Candis McDow · 5 months ago
