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Improve Employee Engagement for Bottom-Line Success
April 18, 2025
Articles | Diversity and Inclusion
Want to boost employee engagement? Start with the essential building blocks of trust, inclusion, and empowerment — insights from Dr. Lauren D’Innocenzo, Drexel LeBow College of Business research professor.
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2025 Edie Hunt Winner Creates Communities of Confident Women
April 15, 2025
Forté News | Leadership | MBA Student
This year’s Edie Hunt Inspiration Award winner, Hannah Tolan, learned early in life the value of strong female role models. Her single mom raised her and her sisters to be independent women, a lesson she carried into her MBA program at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management where she helped create a supportive community for […]
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Unexpected Pivot Led Bose VP from Marketing to Supply Chain
March 27, 2025
Articles | Topics | Videos | Women in Leadership Profiles
Jackie Watt didn’t plan on a career in supply chain and procurement. After graduating with two degrees in Marketing, she thought her first full-time job would be in her field of study. But someone saw strengths in her that led to an unexpected – but highly satisfying – career in automotive supply chain. Now, as […]
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Banish Tolerations to Quiet the White Noise in Your Life, Find New Energy, and Live Abundantly
March 26, 2025
Articles | Early Career | MBA Student | Mid-Level | Work/Life Effectiveness
Do you sometimes feel like you are running on empty but don’t know why? Or maybe you feel slightly drained, but you can’t put your finger on what’s holding you back. It could be that you are living with too many tolerations. What are tolerations? Tolerations are things that you are putting up with every […]
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Mulan and the Myth of Merit
February 12, 2025
Articles | Diversity and Inclusion | Leadership
I recently watched the live action version of Mulan with my family. It felt particularly of the moment, given the current conversation and recent Executive Order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” It raised the question, “is merit enough?” As a child, Mulan demonstrates an abundance of chi. Despite her father’s pride in […]
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Choosing Community Over Glass Ceilings: A Reflection by Angelica L. Martini, Georgia Tech MBA ‘26
January 24, 2025
Articles | B-School Spotlights | MBA - Current MBA Students | MBA Student
When you break a glass ceiling, it hurts. Trailblazing is an equally exhausting and uncertain task. These overworked phrases try to illustrate what it is like to be a woman in business, depicting certain triumph through adversity. However, they fail to fully depict how difficult being a woman in business can be. In response, I […]
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Meet Rose Martinelli, An Original Forté Board Member
December 19, 2024
Articles | Career Advancement | College Student | Early Career | MBA Student | Networking | Women in Leadership Profiles
From opera singer to dean of admissions at top business schools to higher ed consulting, Rose Martinelli has built a career on the belief that every woman has a right to leadership – she just has to do the work. Early Forté Support: Do Something, Don’t Sit Back and Watch Tell me how and when […]
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Georgetown MBA’s Nigerian Childhood Inspires Career Dreams
December 11, 2024
Articles | B-School Spotlights | MBA - Current MBA Students | MBA Student
Moksy Dosunmu, an MBA candidate at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, knows firsthand the importance of financial acumen. Growing up in Nigeria, Moksy watched her mother struggle to get capital to revive her flagging business. That experience inspired Moksy’s desire to pursue a finance career and to help others achieve financial independence, especially within […]