Where the standard is tightening, in public.

Since 2017, I have had over 2,400 conversations with women in business about money, power, and what technology actually owes us. These essays are where I work that thinking through in real time. Check Your Default Settings is where that thinking landed clearest.

Some are rough. Some have held up better than I expected. I have left them as they were written because watching the standards tighten in public is the point, not a side effect.

Money, sex and gender, and politics have never operated independently of each other in any woman's career, and 2,400+ interviews make that case in cumulative detail. The same thread runs through the Money, Sex & Politics podcast and throughout everything we are building inside Leading Ladies LLM.

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The Role of AI in Leadership

Knowing your way around algorithms is necessary and not sufficient. AI amplifies what is already there. Which means it also amplifies the bias, the broken systems, and the outdated defaults. So who is in the room when it gets built matters.

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The Crossing Guard Dream: Diversity Is Power

About five years ago I had a dream. I was walking down a busy city street and a woman of color told me in no uncertain terms: "STOP WALKING." She said it again, louder. And then I understood something I have never forgotten about diversity, power, and who belongs at the helm.