Part of the series “Living and Working Better” Almost 10 years ago now, I embarked on a yearlong qualitative research study for my first book Breakdown, Breakthrough on how women experience what they perceive to be professional “crisis,” and how they overcome it. More than one hundred riveting personal interviews later, complete with intimate, revealing details on how professional women transform all aspects of their liv...

Part of the series “Creativity at Work” Before I owned my own coaching business, I was in the corporate arena as a director and VP, focused on marketing and product development. In every company I worked for, every once in a while, we’d be asked to engage in some form of “team-building” – from a few days away from the office in a place like Las Vegas (complete with dinners out, casinos and a Cirque Du Soleil performance)...

After 10 years of supporting mid- to senior-level professionals overcome blocks to their career success and happiness, I’ve learned one key fact – what holds us back is not what we think. It’s not about external factors and forces pushing against us and keeping us down. It’s about ourselves – plain and simple. Our failure to achieve the success and happiness we want is much more about what we don’t know, and don’t understan...

In the professional world I’m immersed in – coaching and online personal and professional development services – I’m literally bombarded every day with “experts” who share what they believe is the one “right” way to proceed in life and in business. Today, we can tap into wisdom and advice from literally an unlimited number and array of sources: from world-renowned researchers and speakers, to multimillionaire entrepreneurs,...

In my work as a career success coach, I regularly survey thousands of professionals each year. These surveys and studies allow me a special lens into the deepest thoughts and beliefs of people who are building careers that excite and inspire them, as well as those who are despairing and disillusioned, and desperately want a change but can’t figure out how to create it. These clients and respondents communicate in many diffe...

Progress and success are two different things, and the area of women in the workplace might be the best representation of that idea. Part of the disparity lies in the myths and realities of the situation. Joining Tim Muma to separate the truth from fiction is women's success coach Kathy Caprino, founder and president of Ellia Communications. Kathy gives us the details on what you can believe about career advancement for wom...

In the world of career advice, “find your passion” is a phrase that is often tossed around. But how exactly do you go about finding your passion and translate it into a career? Kathy Caprino, an international women’s career success coach and renowned career speaker and writer, sheds some light on the topic of discovering your passion and pursuing it in the form of a career.