I used to think being a “strong woman” meant keeping quiet, pushing through, and proving I could handle anything without […]

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Hi, I’m Anna — and since we celebrated Pride Month in June, makes this one close to my heart. You’d […]

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Let me tell you about the time I implemented Salesforce across Sub-Saharan Africa and unintentionally turned a software rollout into […]

When the news came: “We’re returning to the office,” my heart sank. For over two years, I had been working […]

When Perfectionism Becomes the Reason You Never Start There was a project I sat on for three months. I had […]

They told us it would be three weeks. Three weeks of slowing down. Of baking banana bread. Of pajama Zoom […]

You know that moment in the morning-when your eyes flick open and before your feet hit the floor, your brain […]

It always started around 3:00 AM.Like clockwork. Like some invisible alarm in my body knew exactly when to go off […]

My excitement grew as the plane touched down in Prague. I had barely slept, partly because of the long haul […]

Hi, I’m Anna and this is my blog. It was just after my birthday at the end of November, and […]

Before my partner and I were married, we lived on a property with several other tenants. There was a main […]

In many corporate environments, delegation is praised as a mark of strong leadership. A leader who can delegate effectively frees […]

I spent 35 years in corporate, navigating boardrooms, system rollouts, and office politics. But one of the most challenging experiences […]

I am a hugger. A full-blown, no-holds-barred, bring-it-in-and-squeeze hugger. I love giving them. I love receiving them. If hugs were […]

I was part of the IT department for an international manufacturing company with its head office in America. When I […]

I knew Mondays would be long. Really long. From the moment my alarm blared its unwelcoming tune at dawn, to […]

In my career as a developer, one experience stands out as a harsh lesson in trust, integrity, and the importance […]

Growing up as the middle child, sandwiched between an older and a younger sister, I often felt like the negotiator […]

I had the responsibility of rewriting the mainframe insurance application on a new software package so that it could be […]

I know what it’s like to be bullied. I’ve lived it-at work, in social spaces, and even in places that […]

In my early career as an RPG developer, my work revolved around the mainframe computer. For those unfamiliar, RPG wasn’t […]

Working in an all-women team under a female supervisor sounded empowering on paper, but in reality, it was anything but. […]

Picture this: a 22-year-old fresh out of university, nervous as can be, standing at the base of the towering headquarters […]

Hello, everyone. I’m Anna. I’m a 56-year-old gay woman who’s spent her entire career in the corporate world-navigating its highs, […]