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We all know there are benefits to being optimistic and maintaining a sunny disposition. However, when life presents us with challenging and painful circumstances, ignoring difficult emotions in favor of a cheerful facade isn't the most healthy coping mechanism.

Alison Koplar Wyatt is the co-founder of Female Founder Collective (FFC), which she launched with Rebecca Minkoff. A veteran of the start-up world, she has worked in a leadership capacity at culture-shifting companies such as Goop and Refinery29.

The end of the year is approaching and we're all feeling tired and burned out by the many pressures of work and family life. When our mental energy is drained, our brains cope with that fatigue in the same way.

As Chief Strategy Officer for Handel Group, Chrisa Zindros Boyce brings over a decade of management and executive-level leadership. Throughout her career, she has worked on building brands and creating business driving initiatives that have positively impacted sales, profit, and employee retention for large and small companies.

Growing our emotional intelligence is how as leaders, we can make our emotions work in our favor instead of against us. Over the years author, speaker and consultant Justin Bariso has taught many people how to improve in this area and has crafted a list of rules to illustrate his message. Consider implementing them into your work process.

Dr. Barbara Sturm German aesthetics doctorDr. Barbara Sturm is a German aesthetics doctor, widely renowned for her anti-inflammatory philosophy and her non-surgical anti-aging skin treatments.

As Head of the Traditional Investments Group, Lisa Erickson is responsible for directing all aspects of traditional investment research and fund manager selection for U.S. Bank Wealth Management. She is a frequent spokesperson for Wealth Management and regularly appears on CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business, and print media such as The Wall Street Journal.

Michelle Kennedy is the founder and CEO of Peanut, one of the fastest-growing apps for mothers. She began her career as an M&A lawyer and later joined dating app Badoo, where she rose to Deputy CEO.

When everything on your plate feels pressing, urgent and valuable, how do you prioritize and decide on where to put time and resources. Or in other words, how do we choose between a good thing and another good thing. One potential solution is establishing 'even over statements'.

The success of the WIE Suite community is anchored in the value and quality of advice and support our members give one another. But not all advice is created equal or received as such. According to the NY Times' Anna Goldfarb, 'Advice is a gift, albeit one bundled with inherent power dynamics.

In our most natural state humans are ego-driven and emotional beings. Historically, our egos have been tasked with ensuring our survival by helping us to hunt and avoid being hunted. Egos are the unconscious part of our brains that control our body’s vital functions such as breathing, temperature and balance.

In an interview with fashion designer Alexa Adams, we learned that Sara Little Turnball was her inspiration. But, no one I spoke with had ever heard of Turnball. After a really deep dive in a rabbit hole of Sarah Little Turnball articles, I can unequivocally say she's a 'must-know' icon.

In lieu of Ambien (or melatonin, weed gummies, meditation or counting sheep backwards) I, like everyone else in our over-connected world, have come to rely on the comforting company of podcasts during long sleepless nights. A line up of reassuring voices that speak steadily and smartly about topics I’m interested in: current events, best practices, business, and books. I avoid wellness like the plague. So yes to Kara Swisher, but no to Goop. One in my regular rotation has a defined target audience of women over 40. It’s the actualized version of the podcast that everyone thinks they can start with their best friend, …where we just talk, like we’re at our kitchen table hanging out.

Shanta Thake is the Ehrenkranz Chief Artistic Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she spearheads all artistic and programming activities. Since her start in the Fall of 2021, Shanta has been key to Lincoln Center's ongoing efforts to ensure the arts are central to the civic life of the city—welcoming new audiences, championing genres historically underrepresented on campus, and ushering in accessible ticket models to break down cost barriers.

Election season is just around the corner and the political scene in the United States is shifting. In 2018, a record number of millennials signed up to run for office and political action committees like Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress supercharged a movement to encourage new (and often young), “everyday” candidates for public office. Notable success stories of these organizations’ support include AOC, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush.

Have you nodded along as the metaverse has been “explained” with a cacophony of buzzwords and vocabulary that - if you understood them - would render the explanation unnecessary? Whether you feel like you vaguely “get it,” or are acutely aware you’re faking understanding as terms like NFT, crypto, Web3, and blockchain are thrown around, we’ve got you covered.

Daniella Ballou-Aares is the Founder and CEO of the Leadership Now Project, a national membership organization of business and thought-leaders committed to fixing American democracy. Daniella began her career at Bain & Company, working across the firm’s offices in the US, South Africa and the UK.

Jill Goldenziel advises global leaders on law, leadership, international security, and human rights. She has presented her groundbreaking research at the United Nations and the Pentagon, at TEDx, and for audiences around the world. She is a Forbes.com columnist on Defense and National Security.Dr. Goldenziel speaks and consults on International and Constitutional Law, International Security, Geopolitical Risk, Leadership, Business and Human Rights, Migration, and Disinformation

Charity C. Elder is an award-winning journalist, media executive, and digital strategist with twenty-plus years working and leading in broadcast and digital newsrooms. An instructor at Fordham University’s Department of Communication and Media Studies, Elder published her first book, Power: The Rise Of Black Women in America (Skyhorse/Simon & Schuster) in October 2022.

Alison Mariella Desir is multi-talented: a founder, a doer, an activist, a connector, and an unapologetically straightforward communicator with a passion for community health. Alison came to running organically, following a period of depression, when a Black friend and role model trained for and completed a marathon.

Kate Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health. Maven offers virtual care and services across fertility, maternity, pediatrics, and menopause, and operates the largest women's and family health telehealth network globally.

India Gary-Martin is a 25-year veteran of financial services and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. She has held global C-Suite roles including expatriate assignments in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. In her final role at JPMorgan, India was Managing Director & Global Chief Operating Officer for Investment Banking Technology and Operations where she had operational responsibility for 15,000 staff in more than 40 global locations.

Today, we’re going a step further and in considering the value of women’s networks, specifically. Women’s networks provide unique opportunities to connect with other women with similar goals across various industries and catalyze our ability to share learnings, expertise, and insights.

Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist and coach with 25 years of hands-on experience and two Wall Street Journal bestselling books, with a third (Retention Revolution) coming this Fall. Her first book, Bring Your Human to Work, was followed by Rituals Roadmap.

The handmade cards are sweet. The chocolates are nice. The jewelry certainly is beautiful. But, what we would really love this Mother's Day is policy that puts moms first.

Ryan Viktorian is a Vice President, Financial Consultant at Fidelity Investments. Lorna Kapusta is driven to help women become more actively involved and confident in their finances at every stage of life – a mission that became deeply personal after conquering her own financial stressors, getting more engaged and finding confidence in her family’s financial goals and picture overall.

Jean Smart is the Founder and CEO of Penelope, a fintech company disrupting retirement solutions for small and micro businesses. Prior to her startup career, Jean was Managing Director and Head of Business Strategy at UBS. Jean has extensive experience as an accomplished global executive, and successfully develops and manages thriving marketing teams and business organizations.

Carleton English, joined the WIE Suite to discuss navigation the current troubles within our financial markets. Here's a snapshot of the lessons she shared.

Tyler Cowen is an American columnist, economist, and professor with a global reputation for spotting and nurturing incredible talent who go on to attract international recognition for their work and achievements. For anyone in the business of building and managing organizations, it's worth studying Cowen's ability to discover and enable the most talented people before anyone else notices them.

Over the years, several tools have been created to help individuals manage their ever-growing list of things to do such as Walter Chen and Rodrigo Guzman’s productivity tool called IDoneThis. Instead of writing tasks down, it was for tracking things already accomplished.

Sylvia Rhone is the chair and CEO of Epic Records, a label owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Rhone is regarded as the most influential female executive in music business history. She has held senior positions at all three major record companies and was the first woman to be named CEO of a major record label owned by a Fortune 500 company.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is an American international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist and public commentator. From 2002 to 2009, she was the Dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs.

Annie Dean is the VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian, a software company that builds collaborative software. Her role is to execute their distributed work strategy which allows her to get back to the type of client she’s served throughout her career as a lawyer, founder and consultant. Prior to Atlassian, Annie worked as the Director of Remote Work at Facebook (now Meta).

Shelly Lazarus is the Chairman Emeritus of Ogilvy (formerly Ogilvy & Mather) and has worked in the business she loves for more than four decades. She rose through the ranks of Ogilvy & Mather assuming positions of increasing responsibility in the management of the company, including president of O&M Direct North America, Ogilvy & Mather New York and Ogilvy & Mather North America.

If your first instinct when you see the word “creativity” is to scroll… Stop! Creativity isn’t reserved for artists or creators; it’s critical to problem-solving in the workplace, a driving force behind innovation, and revolutionary in exploring potential career growth.

Marci Alboher is Vice President of Narrative Change at CoGenerate, which brings older and younger people together to solve problems, bridge divides and co-create a better future. She is author of The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life and One Person/Multiple Careers: The Original Guide to the Slash Career.

Julie roots for humans. She works to help humans thrive. She has degrees from Stanford, Harvard Law, and California College of the Arts, but she's not done learning. She plans to learn and grow until she draws her last breath. She lives in Palo Alto, California with her beloved life partner of 34 years, their itinerant twentysomethings, and her mother.

Lesley Jane Seymour is a media entrepreneur and founder of CoveyClub launched in February 2017 (Covey is a small flock of birds). In January 2008, Seymour was named Editor-In-Chief of More Magazine, the leading lifestyle magazine for women over fort . In July of 2015, Seymour created history by having the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, guest edit an entire issue.

We’ve all had unpleasant work experiences, but for many that “unpleasantness” actually crosses into workplace trauma, an under discussed, real experience. As with any trauma, unacknowledged it can drive your actions and reactions even when the threat has passed–like when you’ve left the toxic job behind and are stepping into a new, healthy role.

Amy Wilkinson, founder and CEO of Ingenuity and lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, draws on her unique experience as an entrepreneur, business executive, and academic researcher to reveal how companies and leaders can answer disruption with the forces of innovation.

Janna Meyrowitz Turner is an advisor, angel investor, and strategist focused on systems change, leadership development, and communication in all its forms, in every direction. She has been building values-aligned networks for over 20 years across the public, private, and social sectors. She started her first company, Style House, at the age of 23 in 2006.

For the past two years, turnover has been exceptionally high in the US. In November of 2021, according to government data, more than 4.5 million workers chose to leave their jobs – that’s more than any other time in the twenty years the government has been tracking that information. While turnover proliferates industry and wage-level categories, the rates are especially high in lower wage sectors such as hospitality. In January of 2023, churn was declining, but remained higher than pre-pandemic levels.

Dona is the Director of Tech for Microsoft Accessibility. A woman of color tech leader for over a decade. A multi-published author (it turns out fiction writing is really useful in software!). The owner of the ethical luxury fashion brand Prima Dona Studios. Dyslexic but Dealing. Fast Company’s 100 Most Productive People and Cosmopolitan magazine's Businessperson of the Year. A teacher of hating Mondays less through the power of intrapreneruship in corporations. Always ready to get on a plane.

Less than a third of US employees think their compensation is fair; this impression is largely driven by how much employees trust their organization, or in many cases, how much they don’t. For better or worse, trustworthiness is a quality influenced more by experiences outside of compensation, such as negative experiences in terms of inclusivity, toxic culture, inadequate work/life balance, and a perception of unfair expectations.

Emily Tisch Sussman is a podcast host, women’s empowerment and family policy advocate, leading democratic political strategist, contributing editor to Marie Claire, and mother of three. Emily is the host of the award-winning podcast She Pivots, which features women, their stories, and how their pivot became their success.

How can you make networking work for you? These eight well-connected professional women from across industries share tips. This is the third in our series on networking.

Today we continue our series with networking advice from executive women whose experiences range from consulting to law to tech, luxury fashion, healthcare, and more.

Networking is always a hot topic - one fraught for many with obligations, aspirations, and generalized anxiety. We’ve gathered the best advice of seven connection-making mavens wielding experience ranging from consulting to law to tech, luxury fashion, healthcare, and more, and will bring their insights to you over the next month.

Sheila Lirio Marcelo is Co-Founder and CEO of Proof of Learn, a Web3 learning platform with a mission to unlock accessible, high-quality education across the world. Prior to POL, Sheila was a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA). In 2006, before joining NEA, she founded Care.com, where she was Chairwoman and CEO until early 2020.

Once you’ve determined that networking is a worthwhile endeavor - and that there are authentic ways to make it work for every personality - it’s time to consider how you’ll manage your network.

Tina Bhojwani is the Co-Founder and CEO of AERA New York. Prior to that, she held key leadership roles at global brands Donna Karan and Theory where she played an integral part in international business development. Her most recent corporate role was as President & CEO of Dolce & Gabbana, North America.

Jess Weber is currently the President and Interim CEO of Creatively. Previously she was a consulting at Russell Reynolds Associates, where she advised market-leading and investor-backed clients on optimal organizational design and talent strategies to attract and retain high-impact leaders within the dynamic consumer landscape.

As a sought-after consultant, speaker, and leadership experience designer, Tara Jaye Frank helps leaders and organizations define a vision and develop strategies to advance their culture and leadership goals. In 2015, she published her first book titled Say Yes: A Woman’s Guide to Advancing Her Professional Purpose - a practical tool to help emerging leaders reach their own professional high grounds.

One of our favorite things about June (other than the mad rush of trying to get things figured out before summer, endless school events for those with kids, and last minute vacation planning) is the slew of graduation speeches with advice from high profile celebrities.

Stephanie Ruhle anchors MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Reports on weekdays and appears across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms as NBC News’ Senior Business Correspondent. A Wall Street veteran, Ruhle is known for bringing her business acumen and hard-hitting style to high profile interviews in her original reporting, and bringing humanity to her news coverage, covering the migrant crisis at the border in McAllen, TX and a daily “Good News Ruhles” segment.

Karen Cahn, a veteran of Google and YouTube, has had a career of ups--being a Google Intrapreneur for 10 years and launching the branded entertainment portion of YouTube (her team was the first to connect brands with content creators--ie what we call native video advertising today), and downs--getting fired for making too much money (yes, you read that correctly), and, launching a company post Google that was a bust.

This week for our Masterclass Moment we are going to discuss the trajectory of Carol’s Daughter. Founder, Lisa Price’s story is a shining example of building at one’s own pace.

Julia Collins is a serial entrepreneur who has spent her career building food companies. In 2015 she co-founded Zume Pizza, and became the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn company.

Melanie Goldey is the COO & CFO at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. She was previously CFO at Refinery 29, where she was instrumental in the company’s merger with VICE Media Group.

Meena Harris is an American lawyer, children's book author, producer, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, a company that creates statement fashion to support charitable causes.

Marina Khidekel is the founder of Hugimals, a TIME Best Inventions- winning line of weighted stuffed animals for kids & adults that 'hug you back' to ease anxiety, which has been recognized in Goop, People, NBC News, Real Simple, and many more.

One of the most sought-after minds in strategic communications, Rakia Reynolds is a thought leader, tastemaker, and branding expert who advises name brands on creative strategy.

Anne Fulenwider is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alloy Women’s Health. She is a former magazine editor and a believer in the power of storytelling. She began her career at the literary magazine The Paris Review, spent ten years at Vanity Fair editing such writers as Carl Bernstein and Dominick Dunne, and in 2009, was named editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, overseeing all content and brand extensions in the United States.

Marianna Sachse is the founder and CEO of Jackalo—America’s first circular children’s clothing brand. Jackalo makes long-lasting essentials for little change-makers. Prior to launching Jackalo, Marianna spent over a decade advising national and global foundations and nonprofits on communications to support health and environmental change. She is a mother of two active kids, a dog lover, and a cancer survivor.

Joy is currently co-founder and Managing Director of Brilliant Friends Investing, an early stage venture group that invests in women-led, tech enabled businesses. She is a Lecturer at Princeton University, where she teaches the foundational entrepreneurship classes and also serves as a Venture Fellow at JVP, a large venture capital firm. Previously Joy was Executive Vice President and General Manager Digital Video at Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE), a subsidiary of Conde Nast, the publishing giant whose properties include Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

Jing Gao is a chef, entrepreneur, and renowned expert on Chinese cuisine, and she’s on a mission to bring uncensored Chinese flavors to the global table. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Sarah has over 15 years of experience in accounting and financial leadership roles including leading large-scale transformations programs, adoptions of new accounting pronouncements, and targeted close acceleration/cycle reduction projects focused on the record-to-report process.

Christina Stembel is the CEO of Farmgirl Flowers, Inc., the only large-scale, female-founded (and 80% female run!), direct to consumer e-commerce floral delivery company in the US.

Stephanie Nadi Olson is an innovator and disruptor, aiming to change the world's perspective on the future of work and what it means to be inclusive in the workplace. Olson, a former advertising executive, founded We Are Rosie in 2018, before the pandemic made remote and flexible work mainstream.

Aishwarya Iyer attended New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she graduated with a degree in Media and Globalization with an emphasis on South Asian Gender Studies. Following graduation, Aishwarya spent many years working for various startup and tech firms in New York while indulging in the diverse culture of the city during her evenings and weekends.

Chloe Harrouche is a Co-Founder of The Lanby, a wellness-forward primary care members club.

Rachel Johnson is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of J&O Law, a firm focused on representing high-growth companies as they scale. Since founding J&O in 2014 with her Co-Founder, Christina Oshan, the firm has grown to a team of 20 with offices in both New York City and South Florida.

Cindy Gallop is an advertising veteran, equality rights activist, and the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.

Last week, our founder Dee Poku and founder and CEO of Moms First, Reshma Saujani, gathered to host a Talking Circle with the legendary Gloria Steinem at her home. Together, the group held space for an honest look at where we stand on equity and inclusion and what it will take to move forward together.

Ida Liu is a visionary leader in global wealth management and former Global Head of Citi Private Bank, renowned for pioneering a holistic, multi-generational approach to wealth.

Wie Suite Founder Dee Poku shares a powerful message for what companies can and must do to support black women in the workplace.

Ashley Flukes and Nneka Ukpai are making waves, moving needles, and shifting narratives by leveraging the power of community and collective investment.

Updated learning on generative AI, AI and the use cases in your business.

The data on equal pay for women is appalling.

On the release of Aliza Licht's book On Brand in paperback, we share an excerpt on how to think about the development of your own brand.

The WIE Suite founder, Dee Poku, shares leadership advice for allies.

Denise Hamilton is a nationally recognized workplace culture and DEI expert.

The WIE Suite founder, Dee Poku on why every woman should learn to trust her instincts.

Karena Kilcoyne is a former trial lawyer who specialized in criminal defense, including complex white-collar and civil litigation in federal and state courts. Later in her practice, she worked as in-house counsel for a publicly traded worldwide manufacturing company.

Laurie has spent over two decades revolutionizing the world of work through her candid storytelling, innovative solutions, and passion for driving better employment experiences.

While it’s crystal clear that a successful transition to a new CEO is key to a corporation’s success, history tells us that even with the best of intentions and efforts on the part of a Board of Directors—who are collectively responsible for managing that succession—it’s not always a slam dunk.

Our Fall Table For Eight dinner series added Washington DC and Chicago to an already expansive list of host cities.

This holiday, the WIE Suite asked tastemaker members for their holiday shopping must-haves.

The jury is out. Depending on your experience a board course or certification may help you but it's also possible that you don't need one.

Getting a spot on a board of directors—especially a major for-profit company—has long been considered as mark of success and acumen, an emblem of power within the business community, a way of amplifying your achievements, a route to cementing old contacts and establishing new ones, and, of course, another way of making money.

Mona Patel is an expert in helping people reframe the way they think by understanding and empathizing with other people’s points of view. For over 23 years, Mona's worked with brands like Nike, Facebook, Capital One, First Republic Bank and Pfizer. She teaches organizations how to listen for what people really want. She has started and built a series of 7-figure companies, is a published author, award winning researcher, and keynote speaker. Her latest company, Gray Zones, produces online immersive experiences to inspire leaders to have more empathy, awareness and understanding for different points of view.

Alexis Grant is founder of They Got Acquired, a media company that features acquisitions of online businesses and the founders behind them. Previously, she was EVP of The Penny Hoarder, a personal finance media brand that acqui-hired her content marketing agency. She also founded The Write Life, an online community for writers she sold in 2021.

Leveraging a nonprofit board seat to secure a corporate board seat can be a strategic career move. Nonprofit board experience can provide valuable skills and networking opportunities that make you a more attractive candidate for corporate board positions. Here's how to go about it.

And, what decision criteria would you think about using when you're considering leaving a board?

Thasunda Brown Duckett, the former CEO of JP Morgan Chase consumer banking, who led a network of 40,000 employees and 4900 branches, was recently named the CEO of TIAA, becoming the second Black woman currently leading a Fortune 500 company.

Debra Lee spent 13 years as the chairman and CEO of BET Networks, has more than 20 years of board service across seven different public boards, and currently serves on boards of AT&T, Burberry, Marriott, and Procter and Gamble.

The Girl's Who Code founder who worked to bring girls to the forefront of STEM, has stepped back from the day-to-day running of the company she created, to focus her energy on helping one of the hardest hit demographics of the pandemic, stay-at-home mothers, with her Marshall Plan for Moms.

Rebecca Minkoff has a lucrative accessories and clothing business, a podcast--Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff, a network--the Female Founder Collective, that supports women owned businesses, and in her spare time, has written her first book, Fearless: The New Rule for Unlocking Creativity, Courage and Success, which comes out this summer.

Deirdre Findlay is the global CMO and Chief Revenue at Conde Nast, where she oversees all consumer marketing efforts and is focused on driving consumer revenue, brand development, audience insights and growth, digital strategy, and increasing subscriptions and memberships.

Dawn Davis, the new Editor-in-Chief at Conde Nast's Bon Appetit, was most recently at Simon & Schuster, where she founded boutique imprint 37Ink. Her successes have included The Butler, by Wil Haygood, made into a movie by Lee Daniels, and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl​, by Issa Rae.

Many of us mean to get more financially savvy, but put it off for various reasons - the concept is overwhelming, someone else in the family has been handling ( eg a partner), or it just feels too late in the game to dive in.

You might think that if you'd built a game-changing business into large global brand and successfully sold it to a powerful conglomerate, you'd sit back, put your feet up and bask in your success, rather than launch a parallel business in a now saturated market-place with a smaller team.

Renowned executive, Esi Eggleston Bracey has spent her the bulk of her career in the beauty industry, first at Procter & Gamble where she became the Senior Vice President & General Manager Global Cosmetics, then at Coty as the President of Consumer Beauty and now at Unilever, where she is currently the EVP + COO North America for Beauty and Personal Care, and it is no surprise her contributions to the industry have had profound impact.

A partner and head of brand/communications for M13, Christine Choi worked with Sir Richard Branson to launch Virgin Group’s North American portfolio and was the first head of communications for Virgin Galactic/Virgin Orbit/The Spaceship Company. She serves on the boards of KIPP NJ and Virgin Unite US.