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.
How to Make Small Career Investments that Compound After the Summer
Every summer, many of us as working women and moms look forward to a slower pace of life: more family time, vacations, a well-deserved break, and maybe even catching up on postponed projects and finding more time to invest in our careers… And right as the...
Praise or Pay: How to Turn Appreciation and Invisible Labor into Pay as a Working Mom
Every year on Mother's Day, organizations show their appreciation for working mothers with symbols of gratitude—thank-you cards, flowers, appreciation emails. While these are heartwarming and certainly welcome, they rarely translate into actual benefits at work....
Why Hard Work Is Not Enough: What Women Should Know About Meritocratic Systems (and How to Beat Them)
As a working woman, the idea of meritocracy may have been introduced earlier on in life to you. From popular advice to widely accepted success principles, merit-based guidance may have followed you all throughout your education and career. “Work hard. Be...
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...
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...
Praise or Pay: How to Turn Appreciation and Invisible Labor into Pay as a Working Mom
Every year on Mother's Day, organizations show their appreciation for working mothers with symbols of gratitude—thank-you cards, flowers, appreciation emails. While these are heartwarming and certainly welcome, they rarely translate into actual benefits at work....
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...