Thanks for the Advice — Now Please Promote Me

I wrote this in 2013 for the Huffington Post. In 2013 we flirted with the concept that women deserved equal space in the business sector. Now we march with that idea and I hope this opinion piece adds to the conversation!

We’ve all heard the saying: You can teach a horse to drink but if you want him to be well hydrated, you have to bring him to water. Actually, we’ve never heard that saying because the saying doesn’t exist, but my paraphrase of the proverb seems to summarize nicely the state of career mentoring for women today.