When AI Erases Women From The Picture
When Chanel’s CEO Leena Nair visited Microsoft headquarters, she asked ChatGPT to create an image of “Chanel’s leadership team visiting Microsoft.” What came back was shocking…but not surprising.
All men. All in suits.
This, for a company whose workforce is 76% women, whose customers are 96% women, and whose CEO herself is one of only two women ever to lead the brand in its 114-year history.
The algorithm didn’t just get it wrong. It revealed a truth we still avoid: AI reflects the world we’ve built, not the one we’re striving for.
Leadership Doesn’t Trickle Down…It Tops Out
For decades, women have steadily increased their presence in management and professional roles. In the U.S., women now hold nearly 46% of managerial and professional jobs, up from just 29% in 1980. At first glance, that sounds like a victory.
But the higher you climb, the more the numbers stall. Recent data shows that while middle management is approaching parity, women remain far less visible at the very top-CEO seats, board chairs and executive committees. Even more troubling, some sectors are quietly slipping backwards in senior representation.
Celebrating Self-Worth: Voices of Women for International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day celebrates strength, resilience, and self-worth…the foundation of confidence, leadership, and success. This year, we had the privilege of gathering insights from a group of extraordinary women and men, each sharing their unique perspective on what self-worth means and how it shapes their lives. While we featured condensed versions of some of their responses (due to […]
Your Most Powerful Tool Is Your Mind…
If you are old enough to remember floppy disks, syntax errors, bits and bytes and Dos, you will also remember thinking and wondering why you didn’t get every piece of information that you needed pouring out at your request. Unfortunately, we were reminded that what you put in, is what you get out. That is […]
Business Or Expensive Hobby
Here’s the scenario…you decide you have something that will solve a solution for others. You’ve researched the market through surveys, focus groups and lots of connections. This is what you’ve been put here to do and so now you do as Nike as reminded you for decades and you “Just Do It” and voila […]
Getting Your Message Out
When you start a new business, one of the first things you do is to create a product or service that is ideal for your target market. You set the price, you have the features and benefits and you are ready to rock and roll. Until you realize that you don’t know how to let […]
What Would You Do-Over?
I was thinking about some of the things that have happened in my life, both the amazing and the not so much fun times. I started daydreaming about the woulda, coulda, shoulda ways the outcome might have been different and realized that things happen just as they are supposed to and that everything we do […]
Making Your Sales Relationship Into A Selling Relationship
Making Your Sales Relationship Into A Selling Relationship Building relationships requires time, effort and patience. It requires a strategy unique to each situation and prospect. It doesn’t mean developing a shrewd approach to ingratiate yourself with your prospects. If your approach is not heartfelt, it won’t work because […]
Top Women CEOs on How Innovation Drives Business
According To A Recent Article In Forbes, Today 26 Fortune 500 Companies Have Women CEOs. This is a great improvement over the past, and it bears study as these women have some interesting things to say about business in general and how innovation works to drive business growth. According to Denise Evans, a VP of […]
5 Tips to Empower the Entrepreneurial Woman
Entrepreneurial Women Are A Special Group. We sizzle with excitement and we are always busy and full of ideas! However, sometimes we may feel that our joy is stolen and our potential drained by those who want to keep us down. Here are five tips to empower any entrepreneurial woman and get her motivated […]
Staying Focused!
It’s the beginning of a new year and everyone is looking for answers to their challenges. You know the challenges that you had at the beginning of last year that have not been addressed and carried them forward… Hundreds of new programs appear online and offline, that you feel have the answers you need and […]
Shopping For A Candidate
Everywhere you look, listen or read the elections are in front of you. Everyone has a different opinion as to which candidate should hold the highest position in our country. More than that though, the focus seems to be on the “Gender Gap” In one article it stated that if only women voted they would […]