Meet extraordinary women leaders who are making their mark by Eddie Lee & Erin Chan Ding Ensuring women hold leadership positions—in business, politics, and the community—is so important to a thriving society that the United Nations (UN) has made it a focus under its goal of achieving gender...
Bringing STEM Education to All When 29-year-old Kiera Peltz attended a career fair during her freshman year at Brown University, she had every intention of scoring a valuable internship. However, about 75 percent of the employers were tech companies, and the political science major had never...
What you should know about psychometric tests—and how they are being applied in the workplace By Kimberly Olson Skills and knowledge are key in the workplace. But personality traits—persistence, helpfulness, the ability to manage stress—also influence how well we fare in a role. To assess those traits,...
Ryan Specialty’s Michael Blackshear is a DEI leader who knows that relationships are as important as data By Ijeoma S. Nwatu [caption id="attachment_13553" align="alignleft" width="450"] Photo by Andrew Collings.[/caption] As a young Syracuse University graduate in upstate New York, Michael Blackshear decided to venture into the insurance world,...
Advocating and Preparing for Change [caption id="attachment_13603" align="alignleft" width="450"] Photo by Tammy Zurak www.zphotog.net.[/caption] A chance meeting led then–communications executive Lori Spicer Robertson to make a major career pivot. “I met a chief HR officer for a regional bank and he said, ‘You seem perfect for the...
As founder and CEO of biotech firm SiNON Nano Sciences, Afreen Allam aims to revolutionize treatment for neurological conditions By Anna Rappel [caption id="attachment_13551" align="alignleft" width="450"] Courtesy of Durham Magazine[/caption] When Afreen Allam and her sisters were kids, they loved using their imaginations to concoct potions in the...
