Strategic Futurist | Speaker | Coach
Strategic Futurist | Speaker | Coach
A Labor Day post from a strategic futurist and women’s career coach In 1886, workers marched through Chicago carrying a demand so simple it barely registers now: eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will. The demand was about time. But underneath it was a deeper claim: that a …
Why we are Powerpointing ourselves into oblivion instead of designing a humane future of work? et tu, PowerPoint? I sit staring at the empty slide template, blinking slowly, in hopes that the words will start to fill themselves in. It’s not so much that I’m unclear on what it is I want to communicate. Rather …
Somehow, I manage to be very connected into the trends that may shape the future, and pretty disconnected from the trends that are currently peaking. Which is why I hadn’t seen a single episode of Survivor (or even Stranger Things) until recently. Scraping through the dregs of my streaming subscriptions I stumbled upon the entire …
It is 6:47 a.m. on a Tuesday and she has already answered four emails, scheduled a dentist appointment she has been putting off for eleven months, and mentally drafted the agenda for a 9 AM meeting. Her coffee is hot. Her planner is color-coded. She looks like someone who has it together. And sitting in …
The Year Ahead in AI for 2026 Discover 5 Futurist AI predictions for 2026 and how they’ll reshape women’s careers, leadership, and entrepreneurship—plus practical steps to future-proof your path. Picture this: You’re a Director of Operations staring at your calendar. Three “AI transformation” meetings this week. Your team’s engagement scores just dropped seven points. And …
Ethical, Open-Source Tools for Ambitious Women Who Are Over Tech Bro Culture My gals, I’m about at a breaking point.It’s not just the foundation of our American society that is crumbling, along with the constitution. It’s the future of our internet and social discourse, being built and profited upon by these creepy tech bros. This …
Table of Contents One Quick Glance Let me tell you about last Tuesday. I picked up my phone at 10:47 PM—just to check my Facebook Marketplace listing for interest, maybe to look at a few coffee tables. One quick glance, I told myself. Totally innocent. Forty-three minutes later, I surfaced from a rabbit hole of …
Many a weekday I stumble downstairs from my home office dreading to hear that inevitable phrase, “Mom, what’s for dinner?” Despite hours perusing recipe sites and grocery store weekly deals, I had not really managed to solidify meal plans, and I haven’t been successful at offloading that responsibility to someone else, either. Sound familiar? Here’s …
Listen, I’m not here to pretend I’m one of those people who gets fully dressed every day. It’s winter. It’s cold. My couch has a permanent indent shaped like my body, and I’ve watched every episode of The British Bakeoff. I’m living my best life, and you should too. But here’s the thing: even lazy …
🚫 The Hidden Gatekeeper of Your Career Here’s a statistic that’ll make your coffee taste bitter: 75% of resumes never reach human eyes. Let that sink in for a moment. Three-quarters of the resumes floating around in digital hiring land are being rejected by robots before any actual human gets to appreciate your carefully crafted …