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A Better Career Goal: Be Sponsor-Ready
December 19, 2025
Articles | Career Advancement | Early Career | Latest Research | Mid-Level | NetworkingBefore you read: Take our 2-minute self-assessment to see how sponsor-ready you are right now. Then come back to this article to understand what your results mean and how to build momentum from here. There comes a point in most careers when you realize you don’t want to stay exactly where you are. You’re ready for […]
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Wallace Gundy on Transformation and Resilience
December 15, 2025
Articles | Champions for Change | Diversity and Inclusion | Leadership | MBA Alumni | Seasoned/ExecutiveWhen Wallace Gundy reflects on her MBA journey at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School, one word comes to mind: transformational. From the moment she was named a Forté Fellow, Wallace knew she was part of something bigger than herself — a community of ambitious, mission-driven women determined to lead with confidence and purpose. […]
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Is Your Ladder Breaking Before Careers Even Begin?
January 15, 2026
Articles | Career Advancement | Early CareerWhen organizations talk about women’s advancement, the spotlight often lands on the C‑suite. Yet for more than six years, we’ve had a name for where the gap truly starts: the Broken Rung. First introduced by McKinsey and LeanIn.org in 2019, this concept describes how women are promoted from entry-level into manager roles at much lower […]
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Redefining Yes
January 14, 2026
Articles | MBA Student | Women in Leadership ProfilesHow saying yes with purpose helped shape Alexis Perez’s growth, leadership, and impact at Accenture. Accenture Managing Director Alexis Perez has learned that the most transformative “yes” was the one defined on her own terms. This insight has guided the pivotal decisions in her career, from her earliest internships to the leadership choices she makes […]
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Closing the Gap: How to Unlock the Leadership Potential of High-Achieving Women
January 13, 2026
Articles | Diversity and Inclusion | ERGs in Action | Latest Research | Mid-Level | Seasoned/ExecutiveLet’s start with the obvious. Women aren’t short on ambition, brains, or credentials. They’re showing up with MBAs, solid experience, and sometimes even higher starting salaries than men. Yet somewhere between “manager” and “VP,” the escalator to leadership turns into an obstacle course. Spoiler: it’s not because women forgot how to lead. It’s because the […]
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5 Things to Know About McKinsey’s “Ambition Gap” Report
December 19, 2025
Articles(Especially if Someone Only Reads the Headlines) If you’ve seen coverage of McKinsey’s latest Women in the Workplace report, you may have encountered a familiar and slightly alarming takeaway: Women are less ambitious than men. That’s not actually what the report says. But it’s what a lot of people walked away with. Since we live […]
