Women's Leadership, Women's Career Development, Business Executive Coaching & Podcast By Sabrina Braham Ma Ppc

Do you ever wonder why is there such a large gender divide of women in senior management positions? Are you curious about the underlying reasons that women aren’t making it up to the higher levels? Do you want to know the two most important attributes to help you advance your career? Would you like to know the career development strategies successful women use to overcome self-imposed limitations? Then join me today with women's leadership, emotional intelligence and the gender divide expert and Author Dr. Shawn Andrews to learn how you can break the glass ceiling to advance your career, leadership and life. Here’s some important facts on women in the workforce: Women make up about 52% US labor force. We also know that women make up most professional occupations, such as attorneys and physicians. When you look at education, 60% of bachelor’s degrees in both the US and in Europe are obtained by women.  But here is the problem.  There are more women than men in the workforce and women have the professional de

How Business Women Leaders Can Gain Advantage and Build Sustainable Success? We all know change is one thing that’s constant in life, but how much effect does change really have? How important is it? How can you evolve to change and use change to keep business sustainable? Today we are going talk about how small changes can make a big difference and establish a sustainable business with entrepreneur Susan Solovic. Susan is a business woman herself, a business contributor to ABC News and other leading networks, and an award-winning serial entrepreneur. Susan is here with us to explore and help us understand how change gives that 1% edge to business women, help them move ahead in business, and how to make small changes for sustainable success. Being a serial entrepreneur, who else can better explain how to sustain as a business and coach on women's leadership? Right? “You don’t want to stay in the status quo.  You want to be in the status grow,” Susan Solovic Why Become Outdated and Extinct? Susan says man

What is Brave Leadership? Are you a manager or leader? Do you believe that how you think limits the results you get in your organization? Here’s the shocking truth. Over 90% of leaders have no self-awareness of how they “think about things”, (beliefs, assumptions, cultural, etc.)  radically impacts the results they get from themselves – and their team. If managers want engaged, excited and loyal employees, they must care enough to walk in their shoes and experience the work they do and their personal challenges, and see leadership through their eyes.  When you have empathetic concern (covered in this Brave Leadership interview) it breaks down barriers, facilitates change, creates trust, and makes relationships work. Are you ready to challenge outdated assumptions and offer yourself a fresh new perspective to be confident, powerful and your authentic self? This is brave leadership shared by our guest Kimberly Davis. Kimberly Davis, Author of Brave Leadership Kimberly Davis’ is the author of BRAVE LEADERSH

What if every time you asked your mother for something or had to figure out a problem growing up, she taught you as if she was training you to be a CEO? And in the process you received excellent career development advice, that you used later on as an adult. Needless to say you would have saved years of struggle and wrong turns in your career if you had had a mom like that. Career Development Advice from a CEO Mom Now here’s the good news. Our guest is that CEO mom and she is here to give you great career development advice. She will share lessons on everything from effective first impressions and workplace politics to relationship development, skill building and other skills that will propel your career faster and further than you thought possible. This will help you if you are a newbie or a seasoned professional. Karyn Schoenbart who is the chief executive officer of The NPD Group, a global provider of information and advisory services to many of the world’s leading brands.  The CEO Connection named Kare

Do you or your teams feel powerless? Are your customers satisfied? The sad truth is many teams and customers do not and suffer – even in medical leadership organizations… Here’s the good news. You can advocate and influence change for both your teams and customer service to improve your company and bottom line from this sage advice below. Join me today with a best selling author and CEO of a large medical leadership management group on how they grapple with these challenges and the solutions they have developed, that you can use too. You think you have organizational problems? The medical field is one of the business systems that is most seriously wounded and rigid.  82 % of physician’s feel they have little ability to change the system. Learning how and why this is changing is valuable information for ANY leader. New York Times Best Selling Author Leadership Tips We have the pleasure of talking to Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright who is a nationally recognized healthcare executive, physician leader and forme

Here is the problem. Many leaders lack effective leadership skills and communication that inspires their strategic vision and engages their team to implement their most important goals. This causes the leaders to micromanage which blocks progress and profits. Can you relate? Is this a problem for you or your company? Join Sabrina and best selling author Dianna Booher as they share practical guidelines to effective leadership skills and communication that inspires and advances your top goals with less effort and time.  Also see the bottom of this page to get the full interview transcripts and other free bonus tools.   “Great leaders are great communicators, as Dianna Booher points out in this smart, useful book. If you want to become a top-notch strategic communicator, you'd do well to heed the advice in its pages.” —Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach, business educator, New York Times bestselling author, and Thinkers50 #1 leadership thinker in the world.   About Our Best Selling Author & Guest on Effect

Is your leadership style attracting, engaging, and retaining the current & future women leaders you want and need in your company? In order for women to lead and succeed, now and into the future -- especially in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) -- you must integrate many of the specific leadership style elements that helped our special guest Karmyn Norwood become a VP of a multi-Billion dollar company, in her early 40’s. In part 2 Karmyn talks about how to build a collaborative environment where relationships are built and people feel comfortable expressing themselves, and how this will help you grow your career. This interview and part I is one of the most comprehensive, step by step strategies on how to advance your career that I have ever published. Summary of Women's Leadership Success Radio Podcast Part I (#87) : What are detours in your career journey and how to benefit from them. What would it take to start building up your leadership style. Why collaboration is critical and ho

Does the path to your career advancement seem unclear? Have you ever wondered how some people advance, in spite of the odds? In part I of this interview Karmyn Norwood, a black woman leader shares her journey from entry-level engineer to becoming a vice-president at Lockheed Martin while still in her early 40’s. In this great interview you will get one of the most comprehensive, step by step strategies on how to advance your career that I have ever published. Also at the end of the show check out the free webinar and tip sheet to help you advance your career & leadership success. Quotes from our Special Guest Karmyn Norwood “Yes, we have to deliver our products, but really the people who I’m leading; they are the most valuable asset and not necessarily the products. In a business environment, you quickly learn that you’re not the smartest person in the room, and to get to the end state, it takes the entire team, and there are strengths and weaknesses on every team. We leverage those strengths and we develo

Here is How You Can Be a Self-Confident Woman Leader Do you know how lack of self-confidence is impacting your career,  employees or direct reports? When you fail, do you know how to recover? What keeps you from feeling confident? Have you noticed that you may be very self-confident in many areas, and yet still have fear and self-doubt in other ways? This is not unusual. But there is good news. What keeps you from feeling confident and what can you do about it? In a important study on women’s leadership with the major accounting firm KMPG showed a high correlation between high self-confidence, higher wages, getting promoted and even being listened to.  Lack of self-confidence and fears can be overcome so that you can be even more successful in your career. In this part II of this audio podcast interview below with Sabrina Braham MA PCC we will be discussing: Some of the reasons even successful self-confident woman leaders can struggle with confidence in certain areas.  New brain research that begi

Do You Want to Build Self Confidence? Ask Yourself These Important Questions Below: Have you ever refused an opportunity or promotion? Have you doubted your skills, knowledge or expertise even though others praise you? Do you compare yourself against others and many times come up short? Do you have difficulty recovering from failure? You may one of the 67% of women who say they need more support building confidence to feel like they can be leaders according to the KPMG Women’s Leadership Survey 2016 According to this Women’s Leadership Survey, Lack of confidence affects many activities that are needed to get into management. courtesy Dr. Nick Lazaris Here’s some shocking statistics on why lack of confidence is a career killer:  9 out of 10 women are not confident asking for a sponsor (a executive advocate to help you get promoted). 78% lack confidence to ask for a mentor 76% do not ask for access to senior leadership 73% afraid to ask for a career path plan 69% do not request a promotion 6

Have you heard about the Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Award? It is a business quality improvement standard and famous award that top women leaders use to enhance their staff engagement, leadership skills and profits developed by the former secretary of commerce, under Ronald Regan How are these standards creating world-class leaders that increase team engagement and deliver exceptional results? Join me today to learn about the Malcolm Baldrige Leadership award, & how you can use this proven system to advance your career, and your company, whether it is large or small. What is The Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Award? In the 1980’s United States industries had lost their competitive edge with other countries. Foreign manufacturers understood the importance of delivering high quality products. The United States was falling behind. Malcolm Baldrige who was the Secretary of Commerce under Ronald Reagan was very concerned. America’s was less competitive in manufacturing, particularly in the automotive and electro

How to Motivate Women?  Listen to this podcast and find out. Are there circumstances or choices you have made that have you stuck? Do you need some encouragement to take more risks?  Maybe you want more control of your life and career? Or do you want to help motivate women to never give up? Our special guest Susan Combs says, "Every day, every age, is the right day, and the right age, to direct your destiny.” Susan has been through lots of ups and downs in life and has come through her experiences with grace and a sense of humor. Her mission now is to motivate women and girls and encourage them to “seize opportunities wherever they find them and to hold on to their identities with every thing they have got.” Author Susan Combs Motivates Women Susan Combs served as the Texas State Comptroller from 2007 to 2015 where she pushed through reforms in state government spending.  Previously, she served as Texas agricultural commissioner in the Texas State Legislature.  She also served as an assistant district a

How to Dramatically Increase Your Profits with Gender Balanced Leadership Learn The Steps That Leading Companies Take To Retain And Attract Top Female Talentand Increase Income     We all know that women are 50% of the population. And you may know that women hold 46% of the entry-level jobs… But why does this figure dropped down, to ONLY 14% when we get to senior management?  Do you think losing 84 % of the most talented women, is hurting companies bottom line? Hell yes! Melissa Greenwell   My guest Melissa Greenwell, COO of The Finish Line, and author of the book, “Money On The Table, contends that most women’s initiate programs fail to help women get top jobs in corporate America. She explains what types of actions actually do have an impact on the number of women in leadership roles. And what businesses and women themselves can do to help drive this change. She will show that having more women leaders has a direct and positive impact on a company’s bottom line.   Melissa Greenwell Quote on Gend

Do you sometimes question your leadership behavior? Do you think only women like: Marilyn Hewson, president Lockheed - Martin, Christine Lagarde, Managing director of the International Monetary Fund or Sheryl Sandberg COO of Facebook, can be great leaders? It’s just simply not true. Listen today and learn how you can take small steps that will change your Leadership behavior and move you toward your goals. My guest today, Shawn Hunter believes that top leaders development is “… a series of small, incremental choices, made over time – starting with our own personal attitudes and daily behaviors”.  “Those personal methods and mindsets then ripple out and affect each relationship with those around us.” This interview will demonstrate that great leadership behavior is, in fact, accessible to all of us, in our work, in our community; in our life and through these small intentional behaviors that anyone can take. Bestselling author Shawn Hunter distills organizational theory and his own research into 12 critica

What are the Habits of a Happy Brain for a Woman Leader? Listen and find out why this is critical to your success. Today we are going to talk about something different… Something that you would probably never hear - in a leadership program or course. This vital information on how to retrain your brain, will change your ability to control your emotions - and impact how you lead. Welcome to habits of a happy brain and how this can enhance your leadership. Loretta Breuining, PhD You want to feel good and you want to be a better leader right?  Well that is the quest of your brain. And our guest today Loretta Breuning, PhD is here to teach you some methods to make that happen. In this fascinating interview you will learn about the chemicals in the brain that can help you retrain your brain to be happy. Plus, find out about how to build new habits by developing new pathways to help you increase satisfaction and well-being. This will make it even easier to trigger happy chemicals when you want. Habits of a Happy

In spite of all the attention, and “lip service” promoting diversity and women in leadership in fortune 500 companies - AND an increase in highly qualified, educated and motivated women in the workforce, --- women still remain, greatly under utilized in corporate leadership... Here are the facts: Only about 15% of women are in senior executive positions, 17 percent on boards and 3 - 4 % are CEO’s…. Now here’s the good news. Our guest Joelle K. Jay, Ph.D. is an expert in women in leadership development and has researched the long Joelle K. Jay Ph.D. standing hurdles that women experience in corporate culture. In this interview she shares specific strategies and approaches to guide you beyond blocks – and into positions of top Leadership. New Advantage: How Women in Leadership Create Win-Wins Dr. Joelle Jay is the principal with the Leadership Research Institute and an executive coach and keynote speaker. Joelle specializes in the advancement of executive women and she is proud to support the developm

Tim Warren & Sabrina Braham This episode of Women’s Leadership Success Radio is a little experiment. Most the time, I interview world-class women (and men), and I ask them many, many questions to try and figure out what makes them succeed at what they do. Over the years, many of you have asked me great questions. So I flipped the script and am answering some of your questions. In this episode, I am being interviewed by my husband Tim Warren on one of your most common questions: what are some top career development strategies for women? Do you have career development concerns or questions that block your opportunities and impact your income? For instance: What if you are bored in your existing job? Or not sure if you need more education? Maybe lack a mentor? Or feel stuck in a large corporate environment. Do you wonder how do you manage your career and have a great relationship at the same time? And you are not alone. You know you are capable of doing better right? Join me as I share

How to Get Peoples Hearts and Minds Into Strategic Change Management For Improved Culture and Increased Productivity & Profits   Do you want to know one of the biggest challenges to good leadership? It is managing change effectively.   And YET, the research shows that 70% of all change initiatives - FAIL. Why is that? One of the top reasons is because, it is not addressed head on, with the very people who need to implement the change. Have you experienced this? If not, at some point this will happen in your department - or your company at large. Join us today learn how to implement successful strategic change management with author Ellen R. Auster, who has more than 25 years experience specializing in strategic transitions, transformations and turnarounds. She’s also professor of strategic change management and the founding director of the Schulich Center for Teaching Excellence at the Schulich School of Business, York University. She has recently written the book, Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Cha

Have you ever been stuck? Have you ever felt like your career development is at a dead end, or that maybe you got the wrong degree in college? Let me tell you a secret. You CAN overcome your roadblocks. You are capable of being and achieving more than you are doing now. Join Carrie Kish CPCC and me to learn how a serial entrepreneur, mother of 4 and CEO of Culturesync (The Champions of Tribal Leadership) navigates work life balance. This great interview will encourage and inspire you that you can remove career development blocks and amplify your success too. Work Life Balance with Carrie Kish Carrie started out as a chemist and worked in research as a chemist for a few years and then went into teaching, and then I found that she is very entrepreneurial and started multiple businesses. She and her husband just recently started their eighth business, which have been in many different and diverse fields from software consulting to a health spa to leadership development, and although they don’t seem like they

If you have ever worked, or considered the “Lean Process”, 2 Second Lean will help you make it simple and accessible. Join me and my guest Paul Akers, author of the best Selling book, “2 Second Lean”. Listen and learn a simple way to eliminate waste with the "2 Second Lean Process" to increase productivity and enjoy your life more. It is has been adopted by corporations like Coca-Cola, Boeing, Amazon, Mercedes Benz, Boeing and many others worldwide. Paul Akers is the author of 2 Second Lean and the founder and president of FastCap based in Bellingham, Washington, an international product development company that he founded in 1997. He has over 2,000 distributors worldwide and he is a prolific inventor. He has launched approximately twenty new innovative products a year since 1999.   Attention Leaders & Managers: Listen & Share This is one of the best most practical interviews I have ever done. It will help you be a better leader, manager, more profitable, happier team and most important, more freedom and