Resiliency Minutes: Listening for Bonding

In Her Own Voice

• Lean In Advice from Jenna Lombardo, Former Marine
  Women can have it all, but first YOU need to figure out what “IT” is that you want!  Just remember, allow your goals to change over time. You will change and your priorities and ambitions will change and sometimes plans don’t always work out as we intend.  Being flexible will help you stay on track […]
• Stand Your Ground Against Sexual Harassment
  NOTE:  Jenna Lombardo wrote this to her sisters in the military.  However, her advice is solid for men and women in all work environments: So often, the military small unit leadership has turned a blind eye to sexual harassment and sexual assaults.  It is only until recently that action is being taken due to the high-ranking […]
• Female Combat Marine Leans In for Women
  Talk about “leaning in”.  Imagine doing two combat tours in Iraq, being promoted because of “meritorious combat service”, being nominated three times as “Enlisted Woman of the Year” and then facing sexual harassment from a senior enlisted adviser. I encountered Jenna Lombardo through her story posted on Sheryl Sandberg’s LEAN IN site. Given the current […]
• May Highlights in U.S. Women’s History – Guest Post
  May 1, 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, named Library of Congress’s Consultant in Poetry (later called Poet Laureate) in 1985 May 5, 1938 – Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen presents results of her medical research identifying the disease cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the […]
• Another Take On Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In”
  Carey Perloff, Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theater, has read Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In” and reveals what she thinks of the book.  We particularly like the way she ties the book into the story of her career.  It’s an interesting viewpoint and one worth reading at the Huffington Post. […]