InPower Consulting Inc.

Activating The Hidden Face of Workforce Diversity

Dana Theus — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:00:28 +0000

If you write a leadership blog you know the challenge of dredging the stock photo sites for perfectly politically correct photos of happy business women and men sporting every hue of skin color from creamy white to chocolate brown. If you actually run a business, you know the photo-dredgers have it easy when it comes [...]

Women Entrpreneurs: Mary Ellen Slayter Interview [Podcast]

Dana Theus — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 06:00:59 +0000

It takes a lot of guts to be an entrepreneur and it takes even more guts to be a single mom entrepreneur. That’s why Mary Ellen Slayter, Founder of Reputation Capital Media Services, is one of my personal heroines. She’s running a successful business that’s growing quickly, helping corporations turn the online publishing paradigm into [...]

Iron Man vs. Athena for CEO – Leadership Battle of the Sexes?

Dana Theus — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:00:51 +0000

I recently saw Iron Man III with my family and it was a good time. Bad guys. Good guys. Destruction. Even a humble pie big enough to go around. As I enjoyed the pyrotechnics and good-guy triumph, however, I was reminded of how completely our comic books reinforce the most unhelpful of bad boy leadership [...]

What’s Wrong With Women’s Empowerment?

Dana Theus — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:00:13 +0000

What’s wrong with women’s empowerment? Nothing and everything. At its best, women’s empowerment programs are an organizational (or social) recognition that cultural barriers diminish women’s chances to succeed and make an attempt to counteract those forces to give women a better chance. Why? Not just because it’s the right thing to do from a social [...]

PODCAST: InPower Interview with Jory des Jardins of Blogher

Dana Theus — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:08 +0000

Jory des Jardins is an InPowerhouse. As one of the co-founders of BlogHer, she and her partners dedicated their business to helping empower women – personally and economically – and as a result, Blogher has become a hotbed of women on the web (full discloser, InPower Women shows up there from time to time!) Jory [...]

Am I a Feminist? Yes, and…

Dana Theus — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:00:22 +0000

Am I a feminist? My whole, half century life as a professional, a wife, a mother of two and now a women’s leadership advocate I’ve never had a comfortable answer to this question. While this might seem odd since I now run a women’s site, I know more women who feel this ambivalence about identifying [...]

Should We Lean In to Combat Sexism?

Dana Theus — Wed, 01 May 2013 06:00:02 +0000

Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean In, has generated a ton of dialog about women and work – not all of it positive, and not all the criticism from men. Actually, the only criticism I’ve read or heard has been from women, and it seems to literally illustrate her point that sexism is very cultural and [...]

No Sexism Here – 3 Ways Men Can Help Women

Dana Theus — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:00:15 +0000

Photo Credit: Free Digital Photos Ladies, I write a lot for women, but I talk to many men who want to help us too. I recently wrote this for Smartblogs on Leadership (where lots of men hang out) and thought you might like to pass it on to the men you know that have women [...]

6 Steps to Authentic Self Confidence for Women

Dana Theus — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:00:27 +0000

Why would anyone follow a leader with no self-confidence? They wouldn’t. Do women struggle with self-confidence more than men? Yes. Then why are we surprised when there aren’t as many female leaders as male leaders in our businesses and society? We shouldn’t be. Now, I know very well that moving women in to more leadership [...]

How Sheryl Sandberg, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Marissa Mayer Prove That We’ve Found Equality Where We Don’t Want It

Dana Theus — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:00:17 +0000

I have great respect for the ways that Sheryl Sandberg, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Marissa Mayer are doing what they think is right and completely ignoring all the chatter about them on the web. They are doing what any man would do – running companies and professoring – and sparking a national debate on the issues [...]