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Podcast: The Glass Ceiling Is Real: Part 1
Conversation with Justin Moran, The Workplace Podcast
This is the first of a 2-part series that features an in depth interview with Julia Geisman, Founder and CEO of CareerAgility. She discusses the importance of keeping gender equality in the workplace top of mind for business owners and leaders today and why.
Click here to hear Julia's perspective the reality of the glass ceiling
"As far as I’m concerned, this is required listening if you are a small business owner or in any position of power."
Podcast: The Glass Ceiling Is Real: Part 2
Conversation with Justin Moran, The Workplace Podcast
This is a continuation of an in depth interview with Julia Geisman, Founder and CEO of CareerAgility. In this segment, she discusses a variety of factors that contribute to creating the glass ceiling and ways in which to manage them.
Click here for the second installment
"If you have policies and processes in place, you will deal with the implicit biases that exist within the workplace."
Article: Boston’s tech industry has a gender gap. Female leaders explain how to close it.
Boston Business Journal 7/3/2018
Julia Geisman, along with Diane Hessan (Chairman of C-Space), Donald Tomaskovich-Devey (Director, Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst) and Pam Reeve (Vice Chair, The Commonwealth Institute) discussed contributing factors to the gender gap.
She shares the data from the LEAP Scorecard which consistently identifies the barriers women face as they advance in their careers. The article was published in the July 3, 2018 edition of The Boston Business Journal.
Click here for a copy and download the article.
But if the environment is not inclusive and receptive and does not afford women advancement opportunities or to make a contribution on projects, they are not going to stay.
WBUR-FM Story on the City of Boston Negotiation Workshops
Julia Geisman is one of the facilitators for the City of Boston's free negotiation workshops sponsored by Major Martin J. Walsh and offered through the Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement. The City has joined forces with AAUW in an initiative to make Boston the first city to close the gender wage gap.
AAUW Work Smart salary negotiation workshops are designed to ensure women have the knowledge to negotiate fair and equitable salaries and set a benchmark for future salary increases.
Listen to Boston’s NPR news station WBUR-FM's Zeninjor Enwemeka's story on closing the wage gap and an excerpt from the workshop facilitated by Julia.
Do you self-promote?
Do you let people know your accomplishments? This is part of the problem. We don't let people know our value.
Interview on WBZ NewsRadio Women's Watch
Women's Watch is an ongoing series of interviews conducted by WBZ's Laurie Kirby with the women making a difference in women's health, relationships and business matters.
In this segment, Laurie talks with Julia Geisman regarding what companies need to do to build and sustain an inclusive work environment for women's advancement.
Organizations need to recognize the areas in which they are discriminating against women and they can be very subtle.
You want to be thinking
about negotiating your salary all the time. It's important to look at your career as an investment portfolio.