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  Career Advancement

  “I was basically a chair”: 5 tips for telling your career story

  Yesterday, my daughter texted a picture from work. Two tiny preschoolers, both perched squarely in her lap, grinning at the camera. It was adorable. She’s spending her gap year at a preschool, before she starts graduate school in the fall. I’ve gotten a lot of texts like this.   But it was her caption that made […]

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  Your First Promotion: What You Need to Know

  When people talk about women’s advancement, the conversation usually jumps straight to the C‑suite. But the real story starts much earlier, at the very first step up. For more than seven years, we’ve had a name for the place where women’s careers most often stall: the Broken Rung. First introduced by McKinsey andLeanIn.org in 2019, […]

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  Forté Signals

  The Graduation Speech I Wasn’t Asked to Give

  This is the time of year when people who are famous, accomplished, or both get invited to stand in front of a room full of graduating students and say something memorable. Graduation speeches are supposed to be inspirational. They are meant to give you good advice. And they are supposed to send you out the […]

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  Impact Stories

  How One Conference Helped Anuva Wardah See a Future for Herself in Finance

  When Anuva Wardah arrived at the College Fast Track to Finance Conference, she wasn’t sure how her background in Political Science and Sociology would translate into a finance career. As someone deeply involved in civic engagement, global affairs, and social impact work, she had always been curious about the industry — but also unsure whether […]

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  Impact Stories

  The Women Who Open Doors

  By the time the cava and canapés came out in Barcelona, the formal part of the evening was over. But according to one of the event speakers, that was when some of the best conversations actually started. A few days after ESADE and Forté Foundation hosted their International Women’s Day Symposium in Barcelona, panelist Elena […]

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  Forté Signals

  The CFO Path Works. But the On-Ramps Are Closing.

  In the last post, I introduced the difference between signs and signals. At the simplest level, signs are the observable inputs. Signals are what those inputs get interpreted to mean. From an individual perspective, that shows up in familiar ways: your resume, your experience, your credentials. These are the signs. What people believe those things […]

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