On the morning of December 5th, I found myself at the HSS Training Center on 39th Street in Brooklyn, home of the Brooklyn Nets training facility. The Basketball Africa League, BAL, was holding its first combine. Unlike the jam-packed, media swarmed, agent laden, coach stocked,...
Mark your calendar. In October, exactly two years after their game changing article was published in the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Meghan Touhy’s book, She Said, will make its debut. Many people are hoping it will fuel another phase of the #MeToo movement, launching it towards fundamentally...
The Los Angeles Lakers selected Lonzo Ball as the second player picked overall in the NBA Draft on June 22, 2017. Ball was touted as a redeemer of a Lakers franchise that had fallen from the glory of its past. That same day, the Lakers...
Gender equity in professional sports and all workplaces is within reach. The NBA’s February 2019 All-Star Weekend bash in Charlotte staged events on and off the court. Most were designed to be entertaining, others enlightening. Of course, there was the celebrity game, the three-point shooting contest,...
A few months ago, while flying across the country, I decided to binge on my favorite basketball podcast, The Woj Pod, hosted by Adrian “Woj” Wojnarowski from ESPN. The season’s end retirement of the Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade was on my mind, so I selected his February...
Last week I watched Adam Silver’s interview at the MIT/Sloan Sports Conference, an interview conducted by podcaster, founder and CEO of The Ringer, Bill Simmons. As a female sports enthusiast, listening to Simmons can often times be likened to listening to someone with chronic halitosis. I...
Do you have prepared phrases for when things get tricky at work? Whether it’s telling an employee they need to improve their hygiene, pushing back on someone taking credit for your ideas, or bringing up serious complaints to HR, it’s always good to feel prepared. Work...
...and why we shouldn't anymore. Last night, my friend Eugenia and I went to a restaurant and took seats at the corner of the bar. An hour later, a man obviously who had been drinking nearly bumped into me. I reacted by holding my hands up,...
Follow these steps to protect yourself from negativity. You've seen these people. You've been around them. You may have even encountered them directly. They stand inside elevators, staring at you as you race toward the doors closing in your face. They don't talk; they dictate. They...
Sara*, the CEO of a software company, had recently fired an employee. In a heartbeat, gossip about the who, how and why of the termination began spreading through the office grapevine like chicken pox in a kindergarten classroom. The copy-room commentary was flat-out false. But the...