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Preparing for the Unexpected: How Maria Fava Found Her Confidence as a...
Born in Mexico City and raised in Guadalajara, Maria Fava never would have predicted that she'd have a career in financial services. And certainly not in Maryland. Over two decades ago, when Maria...
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Women in tech on the fast track
Below is an article originally written by PowerToFly Partner Accenture, and published on September 29, 2020. Go to Accenture's page on PowerToFly to see their open positions and learn more.Accenture...
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How 12 Companies Are Facilitating Inclusion for Employees with Disabilities
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and the Department of Labor has focused on the theme "Increasing Access and Opportunity" for 2020, which is also the 30th anniversary of the...
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What does BIPOC mean?
What does BIPOC mean?For our first entry in our now-monthly glossary of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) terms, we're going to cover BIPOC, a (relatively) new term in the space. We'll answer...
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How to Deal with Conflict at Work as a Manager
When we talk about fostering a diverse workplace, that means recognizing and celebrating all kinds of diversity: of backgrounds, of experiences, of ideas. A diverse team should include racial and...
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12 Ways Leading Companies are Supporting Transgender Employees
Transgender Awareness Week takes place every year from November 13-19 and culminates in the Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20th.The goal behind both events, per GLAAD, is to honor the...
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On Representation, Constant Learning, and Coachability: How Rocket Mortgage's...
Bianca Brown will be the first person to tell you that transitioning into mortgage banking at Rocket Mortgage®, where she is now a director, was "not all peaches and rainbows and sunshine."She'll...
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Values Made Real: How Gainsight Is Transforming the Future of Customer Success
Well over a year ago—before the pandemic shuttered their offices and sent everyone into a semi-permanent state of work-from-home—Robin Garcia-Amaya was sitting across from her boss, Gainsight CEO Nick...
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Where Did "Latinx" Come From?
For the second entry in our monthly glossary of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) terms, we're going to focus on Latinx. We'll cover common questions like "What's Latinx mean?", "Where did Latinx...
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What You Can Do as an IC to Welcome More Diversity in the Workplace
When Chelsea Wise landed a role at her dream company, she was excited to take on life after college, but wasn't sure how starting her professional career would affect her personal and social life....
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5 Tips for Starting a Conversation About DEI at Work from Datadog’s Denise...
Denise Dekker has several chapters of her memoir already planned. There's the story of her time as a line cook at a vegan restaurant in San Francisco, a section on her nine years as a buyer for an...
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How to Find—And Foster—A Sense of Belonging at Work: Tips from GameChanger’s...
Siobhan Sabino's first introduction to tech was one she's since realized is shared by many women who grew up in the 90s: Neopets. "It's HTML and CSS," explains Siobhan of the options to customize a...
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8 (Virtual) Diversity Conferences to Attend in 2021
As you set your personal and professional priorities for 2021, is a diversity and inclusion conference on your agenda? If not, it should be—particularly after 2020's pandemic and racial reckoning have...
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This Amazon Manager’s Superpower? A Diverse, Collaborative Team
Amazon is well-known for being customer-obsessed. From next-day delivery to "just walk out" shopping, the tech giant has long focused on meeting—and exceeding—customers' expectations. It stands to...
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24 Ways Companies Are Celebrating Black History Month at Work
If last year proved anything, it was that America's long history of inequality is not a relic of the past. Many of us spent more time thinking about, speaking up against, and working to change the...
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What Accessible Design and Engineering Look Like at Quip (With 6 Tips for...
Christina Xu has long been interested in accessible design. As the product manager for the Accessibility (A11y) team at real-time collaboration software company Quip, it's more than just a passing...
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5 ways to foster DEI through inclusive product design with LogMeIn’s Lauren Zack
There's a laptop sticker that Lauren Zack sees and agrees with every day: "You are not the user." As a longtime UX professional, and the current VP of UX Design at SaaS company LogMeIn, recognizing...
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4 Books by Black Authors To Read This Month
In honor of Black History Month, we've been reading some of the great books written by four of the talented Black speakers that joined us at our recent Diversity Reboot Summit—because Black History...
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What's the Best Way to Refer to Disability?
After a brief hiatus, we're picking our series of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) terms back up! This month we're looking at different ways of addressing people with disabilities. We'll give an...
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How These 30 Companies are Celebrating Women's History Month in 2021
Women have always had a lot on their plates, juggling their professional goals with societal expectations and responsibilities to their families, partners, and communities.But women have never had a...
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How Zapier Director of Compensation Jocelyne Wright-McLemore Is Tackling...
Jocelyne Wright-McLemore has a sticky note that she looks at every day: "I'm overqualified and I can do this." Zapier's Director of Compensation put that sticky note up shortly after she rolled out a...
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Getting Comfortable with Discomfort: A Conversation with Procore's Kellie...
Kellie Persson was at the WWDC17, Apple's annual conference for developers, when she heard Michelle Obama give an answer about why there weren't more Black women in tech. "'You're asking too late,'"...
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How This Engineering Manager Is Pushing Back on Imposter Syndrome
Crystal Thornton has long mastered the perfect chocolate cake, but that doesn't keep her from trying out new recipes. She's currently working on making edible glass structures out of isomalt...
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How These 9 Companies Are Celebrating Difference This Autism Awareness or...
Five million adults in the U.S. have autism spectrum disorder, per the CDC. More are considered neurodivergent, which can refer to people with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.You've met some of them—maybe...
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How Bumble’s Director of Engineering Learned to Be Herself at Work—and...
Rose Hitchcock found out she was pregnant with her third child halfway through the process of interviewing to be Director of Engineering at Bumble. She told the team at the social media and dating app...
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Earlier this month, LaFawn Davis, Indeed's Group Vice President of Environmental, Social, & Governance, joined us as part of our Diversity Reboot Summit to talk about the 'shecession' experienced...
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How These Companies Are Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander...
According to a recent study, anti-Asian hate crimes have risen 150% since the pandemic started. But these acts of violence are not new — they are part of a much larger history of anti-Asian racism and...
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Challenges of & Solutions for Managing a Multigenerational Workforce
Is your organization equipped to manage a multigenerational workforce? A recent Deloitte study says most likely not: The study found that while 70% of organizations surveyed said leading...
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Pride At Work: Learn more about Our Partners, Sponsors & Speakers
Our Pride At Work summit certainly made us proud! PowerToFly was thrilled to present talks by members of the LGBTQIA+ community alongside some amazing allies. Our conversations ranged from leaders at...
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How This Analyst Learned to Serve — and Lead — at NGA
Anne Do was recently visiting her cousin in San Francisco, California, for less than 48 hours. In that time, she made two cakes and a dozen French macarons. "I told my family, 'You won't be seeing me...
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