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Savvy Professional Career Wisdom by Caroline Dowd-Higgins
This is Not the Career I Ordered is read by thousands of careerists around the globe. With savvy tools, inspiration, and resources, this timeless book empowers you to enjoy your career, and love your life!
Turn a Lay-Off into an Opportunity
With a flurry of companies laying off significant portions of their workforce as we finish out the calendar year, the holiday season may be career stressful for many. Whether you are part of the highly publicized Amazon, Twitter, or Meta lay-offs, or you are from a smaller company trying to make financial ends meet – […]
Mental Health Must Be a Top Priority in the Workplace
The U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A. released a report providing a framework for Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing. Dedicated to all the workers who lost their lives during the pandemic and their families, the report is a call to action to lift the voices of all workers, particularly those most vulnerable, and […]
Women in Male Dominated Career Fields
Women graduate from college 3 to 2 over men and make up almost half the workforce. But there are still many male-dominated career fields including law, biotechnology, publishing, and corporate business to name just a few. Women are the fastest growing population of entrepreneurs but they still need to play catch-up in many career sectors […]
Be An Empowered Woman
I had the great privilege of delivering the keynote speech to a sold out crowd at the Indiana University Office of Women’s Affairs – Women in the Workplace Conference in November. The room was buzzing with incredible energy and women ready to take charge of their career destiny. OWA produced a beautiful poster that every […]
Something Needs to Change Around Here
Liz Weber is my new leadership go-to guru. Her newest book: Something Needs to Change Around Here: The Five Stages of Leveraging Your Leadership is hot off the press and finally unlocks the mystery of the multiple stages of leadership. Because when a leader does their job better, they are in a position to help […]
Don’t Let ‘Em Treat You Like a Girl
Through the wonderful world of social media, I had the great opportunity to meet Liz Weber, president of her own management consulting firm and leadership expert. I started following Liz on Twitter since I really enjoyed her posts and before long we connected by phone and now she is part of my professional network. A […]
Making Your Way to The Top
Even though numerous research studies have shown that having more women seated at the decision-making tables improves bottom line profitability for an organization, women sit at the helm of only 12 Fortune 500 companies. Margie Warrell wrote a compelling piece in Forbes about what women can do more of to make their way to the […]
Career Coach Caroline Premieres on CBS Radio
I am thrilled to announce that I will be hosting a national weekly program on CBS Radio called Career Coach Caroline. The show premieres Tuesday, November 1st at 5pm and will air live every Tuesday at 5pm in Detroit, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Seattle on respective regional CBS Radio stations. You can also listen live (or […]
Are You Willing to Take a Risk?
How stepping out of your comfort zone may lead to exciting new possibilities!
Are You Really Listening?
In the era of multi-tasking, true active listening is becoming a rarity. The next time you have an interview, meeting, conversation, or interaction with another person – consider what you actually heard. Did you hear what you think you heard or are you interpreting what you want to hear? Dianne Booher in an accomplished author […]
Create a Kinder Workplace
The workplace can be stressful enough without office politics, gossip, and malcontents. Tom Terez wrote a great piece about building a kinder workplace. We spend so many of our waking hours in our place of work, it only makes sense to create and foster a more civil environment. Here are a few of Tom’s great […]
The Professional Female Shift
Women globally represent 70% of the buying decisions around the world, according to Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo. There is a dramatic shift happening among women in the world which is impacting what happens everywhere from large corporate organizations to local non-profits. Since the recession, we see the importance of humanity being incorporated into […]
The Returnship® is a Golden Opportunity
The concept of an internship for university students is common knowledge but the Returnship® is a unique program targeting women who left the workforce for a few years and are eager to get back in. Goldman Sachs and the Sara Lee Corporation are leading the way with this novel approach to re-engage talented women who […]
