The Corporate Sister is a platform and community for and of working women and moms committed to working and living on purpose, according to their own definition of success, and promoting gender diversity in the workplace.
Are You Being Financially Discounted at Work? How to Recognize It, and Correct It
Have you ever walked out of a compensation conversation feeling like something didn’t quite add up?Not because you underperformed.Not because you lacked results.But because the offer felt… cautious. Conservative. Tempered.As if someone quietly adjusted the forecast on...
New Year, New Career? Why Women’s Careers Don’t Reset in January (and What to Do About It)
New year, new career? Or is it? The start of the year is supposed to feel like a career reset. New goals. New momentum. New clarity about where you’re headed professionally. And the hope that last year is behind you and this one will be better, or at least...
When the Holidays Meet Performance Reviews: How to Handle the Weight of the Season
It’s year-end again, and here we are steeped in year-end deadlines, holiday shopping, festivities planning, and…year-end performance review time at work. If you’ve ever wondered why year-end feels like an exhausting test on the home and work front, you are far from...
The Thanksgiving Tax: On the Real Cost of Women’s Holiday Labor
Every Thanksgiving and the ensuing holiday season, many, if not most, women step into an all-too familiar rhythm. It’s the rhythm of tireless planning, strategic coordinating, devoted caretaking, and organizing, smoothing, prepping, cooking, hosting, remembering, and...
Surf or Riptide: How Women Can Reinvent Their Careers Through the Seasons of Womanhood
At the end of every season of life and work as women and moms, we can find ourselves literally adrift, both professionally and personally. Somewhere amid the tension, the apprehension and anticipation, we end up in this random place between passively surfing the waves...
Less Goals, More Vision: 12 Steps to Audit Your Career this Year
‘Tis the season to set big, lofty career goals for the New Year. It rolls around every year, lasts about a couple of days/weeks/minutes to a month and generally ends in a puddle of unanswered emails and too long meetings. If you’ve been there, you know what I’m...
No More Confidence Bias! How I’m redefining confidence as a working woman and mom
How many times have you heard women “need to be more confident at work”? How many times have you yourself, in your own career and life experience, been told that you needed to be more confident? And if you happen to be confident, how many times have you perceived or...
How to build a schedule that works better for you.
How many times have you wondered why there are not more hours in a day? How many times have you been so frazzled, stressed, and paralyzed at the thought that you don't have enough time to do everything that's on your plate? And how often do you find yourself at the...
TCS Podcast Episode 63: Building a Sustainable Career In Unstable Times
How do you build a sustainable career in unsustainable times? This is the question we're answering together in this episode. I discuss a framework to help us as working women and mothers set and keep a career we can sustain and thrive in over the years and through the...
On Motherhood Pauses and the Systems that Fail Moms
Career pauses are often framed as individual, deliberate decisions. For mothers, these pauses, whether due to childbirth, caregiving, or forced because of exorbitant childcare costs, tend to be seen as simply “opting out” when work and family’s demands collide. But...
Introducing The Corporate Sister Foundation: Building Authentic, Purposeful & Sustainable Success for Women
When I first launched The Corporate Sister years ago, it was just a small blog — a space where I could share my journey as a woman navigating the corporate world, motherhood, and purpose. What I didn’t realize then was that I was starting a movement — one rooted in...
TCS Podcast Episode 62: Introducing The Corporate Sister Foundation
This short but powerful episode introduces the next step in The Corporate Sister journey. It is The Corporate Sister Foundation, the not-for-profit organization created to help women build sustainable careers, wealth, and legacies. The episode recounts the story...