March is Women’s History Month, and Big Think+ is commemorating it with a collection of videos highlighting both women’s history, and the complicated choices facing women who are making history […]
For any business or organization, it’s essential to an organization’s success to create an environment that encourages personal growth and having a growth mindset. In a Harvard Business Review (HBR) […]
Author Claire Shipman explains the positive aspects of allowing confidence to grow within yourself. The best way to do this is to erase any fears that keep you from leaping toward professional and personal challenges.
What does it mean to be confident? Author and broadcaster Claire Shipman explains what surprised her most when researching confidence in both professional and nonprofessional contexts.
Journalist Claire Shipman discusses the role authenticity plays in the manifestation and expression of confidence. Shipman is co-author of the 2014 book The Confidence Code.
Professional women are at a disadvantage due to what's called "the confidence gap," an idea popularized by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay. Shine is a new company that seeks to close that gap one text message at a time.
PwC Talent Manager Michael Fenlon discusses the aims of HeForShe, the solidarity movement for gender equality famously championed by actress Emma Watson in a September speech at the United Nations.
The former chair of the New Zealand SEC discusses the correlation between profitability and having an equal number of men and women on corporate boards.
On Friday 27 February, Big Think partner PwC hosted its second global webcast focused on the question, ‘What would you do if you were not afraid?’ The webcast was part of ‘Aspire to Lead: The PwC Women’s Leadership Series’.
By consciously taking specific actions — from seeking out role models to reevaluating how we think about failure — we can train our mind to behave more confidently.
Business executive Amanda Mesler draws upon her 26 years of leadership experience to explain what it takes to be a CEO: vision, execution, backbone, and a strong support system.
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin was able to ride a wave confidence to run for Congress through the support of her friends and family. Perhaps to stop underestimating ourselves, we need to find our own confidence boosters — in our lives or online.
The Utah Women and Leadership Project is helping the state overcome its ranking as one of the nation's serious underachievers when it comes to gender equality in the workplace.
What's more important: competence or confidence? When it comes to being a leader, it's preferable to have both. But if you had to choose just one, confidence is the way to go.
Teaching Girls to See Themselves as Leaders, with Tara Sophia Mohr In order to guide young women to achieve their full leadership potential, life coach and author Tara Sophia Mohr […]
The vice chairman and chief financial officer of PwC recounts how being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease at 25 pushed her to become more active in pursuit of career goals.
PwC's global talent manager recently visited Big Think to discuss his company's Aspire to Lead initiative as well as to encourage men to pledge their support for gender equality.
The first woman to head a major North American pro sports union has made several major splashes in her first seven months on the job while exuding confidence every step of the way.
Executive Amanda Mesler, who has held numerous prominent roles in corporate America, including as a CEO of Logica N.A., shares examples of both successful and unsuccessful coaching of next-gen women leaders.
Most young women in the workforce don’t remember firsthand the battles their mothers and grandmothers fought over issues that are still relevant today. Among those who’ve read about them or […]