Joe Gerstandt | keynote speaker, freedom fighter, freak-flag flier

So, I am back on this issue of gender in the workplace…for a couple of reasons.  I have recently joined a program called Defining Leadership by Men, which is offered by a really amazing organization here in Omaha, the Institute for Career Advancement Needs(ICAN).  Part of the program has been learning about Emergenetics and analyzing   [Read More…]

Workshops and Social Media Seminar: Very excited to be a part of this rocking event in Appomattox, Virginia coming up on March 7th. “Do you want to learn how to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and more? Do you want to be inspired about connecting with your community as a business leader, educator,   [Read More…]

From Quote of the Day: So now I’d like to say, people can change anything they want to and that means anything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks and I am one of them. But we’ve all got to stop just following our own little mouse trail. People can do   [Read More…]

Some websites I like: The Kitchen Table Blog I love, love, love this blog. It is a back and forth, on-going conversation between two women: Dr. Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University Dr. Yolanda Pierce, Associate Professor of African American Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. These   [Read More…]

The gender gap isn’t just an image problem: our research suggests that it can have real implications for company performance. Some companies have taken effective steps to achieve greater parity. -Georges Desvaux, Sandrine Devillard-Hoellinger, and Mary C. Meaney Nice report from McKinsey Quarterly that came out in late 2008 on women in the workforce. Take   [Read More…]

A bit about what I do… Because there are more and more visitors coming here on a regular basis and becuase I have gotten to know a lot of new folks in the past year (especially through Twitter), I thought it might be good to write a little bit about what I do.  I am   [Read More…]

As a young college student, I did not know a great deal about Martin Luther King. I knew the name, I knew about the “Dream Speech”, I knew that he had been assassinated, but that was about it. And then something happened. For one of my writing assignments in an English class I was taking   [Read More…]

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