by Jackie Acho | Jul 5, 2014 | CEO, Changemaker, Empathy, Feminist revolution, Innovation with a soul, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Thank you Indra Nooyi, President and CEO of PepsiCo, for your refreshingly brutal honesty about the tradeoffs between business leadership and parenting. “You know, you have to cope, because you die with guilt. You just die with guilt. My observation is that the...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 14, 2014 | Changemaker, Feminist revolution, Motherhood, Motherly love, Mothers, Rape culture, Women in Leadership
Have you seen the movie? Have you heard the buzz? Maleficent is the dark fairy who casts a spell on Sleeping Beauty. Through this Wicked-like prequel brought to us by Angelina Jolie and Disney, we come to understand the story differently. It’s not a movie for...
by Jackie Acho | May 8, 2014 | CEO, Changemaker, Creative disruption, Mergers and Acquisitions
Sharon Sobol Jordan is the CEO of the Centers for Families and Children , as well as a dear friend and client. She writes about institutionalizing innovation and positive disruption on her blog, Innovation Inside. This collaborative post is being simultaneously...
by Jackie Acho | Dec 11, 2013 | Art, Changemaker, Creative disruption, Disrupters, Intrapreneurship
dis·rupt transitive verb \dis-ˈrəpt\ 1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Entrepreneurs make money, sometimes lots of it, as quickly as possible. Sometimes even for others. Intrapreneurs (entrepreneurs inside large organizations) make change, sometimes also money,...
by Jackie Acho | Sep 16, 2013 | Changemaker, Education, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership
It is good that HBS acknowledges it has a problem developing women – students and faculty alike. It is also good that they take this issue seriously, as well as their stewardship responsibility. HBS is a springboard to the C-suite and Board Rooms which control so much...
by Jackie Acho | Jul 14, 2013 | Changemaker, Education, Empathy
It’s hard to read the news this weekend. Today’s NY Times story about the rise of a hookup culture in college http://nyti.ms/1aBZakL makes me sad for them and mad at us. Several accomplished and talented young interviewees detail daily lives that are...
