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Michelle Obama Lesson in Executive Feminism

Executive Feminism Begins with Education

Celebrating International Women’s Day, the First Lady of the United States spoke on behalf of Let Girls Learn and teaches us a lesson in executive feminism: you can’t get there if you can’t go to school.

First Lady Michelle Obama and the Peace Corps have formed a powerful collaboration to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the world.…

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I Slay. SNL Slay. WilldaBeast Slay Beyoncé. | KristaBradford.com

I Slay. SNL Slay. WilldaBeast Slay Beyoncé.

Okay. So Beyoncé drops a video the day before the Super Bowl. Formation.

Ka-blam.

Why do I care? I recruit technology executives for a living.And at the senior executive level: diversity matters. So when the Queen B weighs in with her vision, I pay attention. I bear witness to the viral effects that reach across the media landscape. Inevitably, her…

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When the Best Person for the Job Happens to Be Diverse

Happens to be Diverse

Companies seeking to boost executive diversity frequently will say that they want a top performer who “happens to be diverse”. The phrase gets tacked on as a kind of afterthought, suggesting diversity plays no role in the minds of the stakeholders involved. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In an ideal world, we are to be color and gender blind. Yet most of us are…

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The Lastest Gender Pay Gap Stats | KristaBradford.com

The Lastest Gender Pay Gap Stats

Newsflash: there’s a gender pay gap. Women make less than men in the developed world.

(Okay, okay. We know this already. This is just my clumsy attempt at wry humor in face of the latest reminder that we female types have a ways to go to achieve parity . . .)

The latest statistics on the gender pay gap come from Forbes and Statista. Check out their infographic.…

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Silicon Valley Wants Black Coders. What's The Issue?

Silicon Valley Wants Black Coders. What’s The Issue?

Silicon Valley Companies Say They Want Black Coders

Ken Chenault is not a black coder. He has a B.A. in history from Bowdoin College and and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is the CEO of American Express. I had the good fortune to get to know him years ago. Our daughters attended Fieldstontogether, a private school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He is one of the most accomplished CEOs of…

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The Courage to Talk about Executive Search Diversity

I’ve been chewing on it a while. I’ve had something I wanted to say. Yet I know it is impolitic to discuss issues with one’s own industry.

I am fully aware it is so much safer to remain silent (and boring).

But truth is the executive search firm business lacks diversity. There I said it. In fact I said it at length in a blog post on our retained search firm website. The article is entitled Sear…

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Women in Tech Must Know Facts Infographic | KristaBradford.com

Women in Tech Infographic

The number of women in tech is rising fast. In fact, Zuzana Padychova of Potential, Coupofy, and the Potential Female Founder’s Syndicatejust put together an infographic. It finds that the number of women in tech are growing 238% faster than men. The women in tech infographic brings to life data from the top 8 tech companies and “30 trusted sources”. Those sources…

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What Adoption Did to Steve Jobs | KristaBradford.com

The Steve Jobs film by Director Danny Boyle and Screenplay Aaron Sorkin speaks truth in a way no other film before it has about Steve Jobs and about the adoption experience for adult adoptees.

I saw the film Steve Jobs at the suggestion of my friend venture capitalist Stewart Alsop, who is mentioned in the film. I was born a stone’s throw away from the Apple founder. Like Jobs, I was adopted. My…

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Boston VC Firm Invests in Working Mother

Venture capitalists are all about the money. I say this in a good way: they do the math. So when the founder of the boston venture capital firm OpenView Scott Maxwell lays his bets on a working mother — a story reported by Dylan Martin of BostInno — I pay attention.

Boston VC Scott Maxwell is known for the Maxwell Curve. It depicts how how Scrum team productivity actually decreases as teams work…

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