Women at Work
Episodes
That’s Our Show
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode marks the end of a show that’s meant so much to us. Amy Bernstein and Amy Gallo say goodbye, answer two last Ask the Amys questions, an...
Ask the Amys: Sabotaging Bosses, Irritating Employees, and More
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if your boss turns against you the minute you ask for a promotion? Or you struggle with strategic thinking and keep getting feedback that you’r...
Let Go of the Beliefs That Limit How You Lead
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us have internal beliefs—I need it done now, I know I’m right, I need to be involved—that feel like truth but actually hold us back as l...
Managing Up, One Conversation at a Time
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever realized, mid-project, that you and your boss weren’t aligned on what success looked like or how to get there? Executive coach Melody ...
What We Can Learn from Taylor Swift
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When our colleague Kevin Evers wrote There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift, we knew we had to talk about it. For so many w...
What to Share, What to Hold Back
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Self-disclosure at work can build trust and connection, but it also comes with risks. In one of our earliest episodes, the late Columbia professor Kat...
The Difference You Can Make in a Recent Grad’s Career
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Young women are entering the workforce full of potential but without some of the interpersonal skills they need to succeed and advance. That’s not j...
Ask the Amys: Favoritism, Unsupportive Managers, and More
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine having a direct report who sobs every time you give them feedback. Or leading a team of people who’ve told your boss they don’t trust you....
The Essentials: Asking Purposeful Questions
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Purposeful questions do more than clarify details—they reveal how you think and demonstrate leadership potential. Amy Gallo talks with a program man...
Getting Along with an Insecure Tormentor
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when a formerly supportive boss turns against you? Amy G advises a project manager who still believes in her team, just not the person ...
Starting March 10, More Amys, More Often!
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After 10 seasons, Women at Work is changing things up for the better. We’re shifting to a new, year-round schedule, releasing a new episode every ot...
We’re Asking for (and Getting) What We Want
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What could you achieve if you asked for what you truly want at work? Amy Gallo and four listeners embraced Alison Fragale’s “nos challenge,” req...
How to Leap Mid-Career from One Industry to Another
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When you realize the line of work you’ve been in for years doesn’t interest you anymore or is in decline or won’t ever pay well enough, what’s...
Consumed by Caregiving
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A past guest recounts how she burned out, quit her job, intended to get a new job after taking a breather, and then didn’t for over a year. That’s...
Working While Parenting a Teen: Not What I Expected
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you expect to have more time for yourself and for your career as your kids become teens and young adults? Amy G did. If you too are getting “urge...
Chats, Bots, and Prompts: Make GenAI Work for You
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s something about hearing how other women are making the most of LLMs that can turn even the most GenAI-avoidant among us GenAI-curious. At le...
When Anxiety Interferes with Work
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Worrying is a fact of life; it comes and goes, usually. A clinical psychologist explains how to better manage anxiety at work, whether you have an anx...
To Get What You Want, Be Both Assertive and Warm
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When you’re interacting with people at work, how often do you find yourself deflecting praise, downplaying your accomplishments, or responding “bu...
What a Woman in the White House Could Mean for Us
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Political scientist Farida Jalalzai and organizational psychologist Laura Morgan Roberts unpack the symbolic and practical effects of having a woman i...
Season 10 of Women at Work Starts October 21
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How are women using GenAI to transform their work? What can we learn from the listeners who identify as “AI power users” about how to boost our pr...
Ground Your DEI Efforts in Data
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know how diverse your company’s workforce is, how equitable its processes are, and how included people feel if nobody is using any metric...
How to Manage: Rising from Middle to Senior Management
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is mid-level management a stone you’re ready to step off of? Making that move is difficult but doable, and Amy B and her three guests will direct, i...
How to Manage: Selling Your Ideas to Leadership
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a mid-level manager, when you spot an opportunity for the business to adopt a new technology, enter a different market, or improve a process, how s...
How to Manage: Executing Strategy
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Strategist Andrea Belk Olson spells out how to make the most of the latest corporate master plan that’s now your job to put into action. She suggest...
How to Manage: Getting Out of the Weeds
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the happy middle between micromanaging and being too hands off? Amy B and three other experienced mid-level managers describe how they think ...
Attend Women at Work Live May 16
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Register for a lively four hours with the Amys, their guest experts, and fellow fans of the show. Dorie Clark will talk about working with the ambitio...
The Essentials: Handling Fierce Criticism
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re in a leadership role, or any role where you are outspoken and visible, chances are that at some point people are going to criticize you, s...
The Essentials: Setting and Maintaining Boundaries
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all need to set boundaries, even in the most structured jobs, because work has its way of encroaching on the rest of our life. Ashley, a senior ana...
The Essentials: Building and Repairing Trust
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trust smooths the way for collaboration, conflict resolution, and influencing. But how do you build this asset? And how do you repair it when you’ve...
The Essentials: Executive Presence
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive presence is a mix of gravitas, communication skills, and appearance. But what does that look and sound like in practice? To help a fully rem...
Sexism Is Everywhere
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is there any way to know for sure whether something that someone did—or neglected to do—is rooted in sexism? When is confronting that person worth...
Is Entrepreneurship Right for Me? (from New Here)
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a question that so many of us are grappling with. Should I quit corporate life and pursue my passion project? Today in this episode from our co...
Ever Consider Joining a Board?
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eight women who’ve been on boards share how they landed a seat, gained confidence in the role, and found unexpected personal and professional benefi...
Ask the Amys
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if one of your first assignments at a new job was to fire people? What should you do if the person leading a project you’re on isn’t giving c...
So Many Feelings. Too Many?
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Fosslien believes “the future of work is emotional.” The Amys revisit our 2020 conversation with her and fellow organizational consultant Moll...
Should I Change My Last Name?
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you plan to get married, do you see yourself keeping or changing your last name? How much, if at all, does your career factor into that decision? O...
ADHD Is Different for Women
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two women who have ADHD—one’s a psychologist and the other a life coach—describe what the disorder is and how it messes with the brain’s execu...
Navigating Your Career When You Have a Disability
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith Koch and Nicole Bettè are engineers who’ve bonded over conversations about their apparent and non-apparent disabilities. They recount how ...
Let’s Talk About Our Failures
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Amys and their former co-host Sarah Green Carmichael revisit times they majorly messed up, in hopes that you’ll feel better about your experienc...
October 16, the Amys Are Back
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this ninth season of the show, these are some of the big questions they’ll explore: How do you recover from a failure? What’s it really like to...
Women Who Are Making Work Better for Women
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you see potential for your company to improve in some way—whether it’s to overhaul an outdated policy, round out benefits, or to make jobs mo...
Communicating Effectively When You’re Running on Empty
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership development coach Muriel Wilkins talks us through communication techniques that meet you where you’re at mentally and emotionally so that...
How to Manage: Finding Yourself Again
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who are you now, who do you want to be, and how can you stretch without taking on too much? Jen Dary regularly coaches first-time managers on these qu...
How to Manage: Negotiating for Your Team
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you manage people, they ask you for things: to extend a deadline, to make an exception, to give them a raise or more resources. Maybe they don’...
How to Manage: Conflict
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
People management consists of a fair amount of mediation and diplomacy, and you can’t expect to get the hang of it right away. You’re in the middl...
How to Manage: Being Taken Seriously
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a woman who’s a new manager, people will probably push back on your authority. As difficult as defiance is to face—especially when you...
Coming in June: How to Manage
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you a new manager? You may have some—er, a lot—of questions. How do you gain your employees’ trust and respect? How should you handle the in...
Attend Women at Work Live April 27
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve planned a half-day of learning, guidance, and inspiration—all virtual. Here’s the session lineup, hour by hour: 1) Communicating effective...
The Essentials: Making Sound Decisions
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A dentist joins Amy Gallo to ask a behavioral scientist about the fundamentals of sound decision making: when to use a process, how to handle resistan...
The Essentials: Getting the Feedback You Need
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We need actionable, useful feedback to grow and advance professionally. But our guest, an aerospace engineer, hasn’t received any of that for years,...
The Essentials: Managing Projects
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s a project charter? Why does this one person keep trying to derail our progress? Are our planning meetings effective? How do I actually get pe...
The Essentials: Playing Office Politics
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone at work has their own priorities, concerns, and agendas, and knowing what those are allows us to navigate meetings and projects more delibera...
Season 8 Highlights — and a Host Reunion!
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former co-hosts Sarah, Nicole, and Emily reunite with the Amys to talk through the insights and advice that most resonated with them from this season,...
How to Push for Policy Changes at Your Company
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Want to modernize a program or enact a policy that would benefit women in your workplace, but don’t know where to begin? Learn how to build a grassr...
Working While Managing Your Child’s Mental Health
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tending to a child’s mental health challenge is a critical job that deserves support from employers. Many parents, however, aren’t getting the und...
When Your Partner Isn’t Giving You the Support You Need
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The people we love have a great influence on our professional success. But when’s the last time you and your partner checked in about each other’s...
Respect for Any Body Size
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two women who have studied weight bias at work help us understand the ways larger-bodied employees are stigmatized, as well as our role in reducing th...
Have You Started Thinking About Retirement?
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Once you’re ready to retire, you’ll need a plan for how to spend your time. And once your job title is gone, you’ll need to figure out who you a...
The Ups and Downs of Being a First-Time Manager
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When managing other people for the first time, what should we expect, and how can we prepare? Three new managers describe their growing pains, reflect...
Getting Along (Live in Boston)
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To cap off our Getting Along series, Amy Gallo shares advice, in front of a live audience, on how to deal with all different types of “difficult” ...
Getting Along with an Insecure, Know-It-All Pessimist
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you bring about positive change — or just keep a workplace functional — when the person in charge won’t listen? Amy Gallo recommends tact...
Getting Along with a Biased Tormentor
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you interact with a senior person who should be mentoring you but is instead giving you every reason not to trust them? Amy G recommends tactic...
Getting Along with a Political Operator
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you stay in the loop when someone keeps kicking you out? Amy G recommends tactics to try and phrases to use.
Getting Along with a Passive-Aggressive Gossip
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you work with someone who’s encroaching on your job, bad-mouthing you, and refusing to acknowledge there’s any tension or problem? Amy G re...
Introducing Getting Along
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No one should have to put up with rude, unprofessional, or hostile behavior from a colleague. You can counteract and even preempt it by using certain ...
Emily’s Taking a Break from Nine-to-Five
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our free-spirited, entrepreneurial co-host is applying advice from all our episodes on side gigs, freelancing, starting a small business — and quitt...
When a Relationship with a Colleague Goes Sour
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you address a falling-out with a teammate when they either won’t acknowledge you or just lash out? Amy Gallo brings her conflict management e...
The Essentials: Delegating Effectively
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s be real: You can’t do everything yourself. Delegating to others helps you manage your workload and helps your colleagues who take on the tas...
The Essentials: Managing Up
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Having a healthy, mutually beneficial relationship with your boss doesn’t require accommodating their every quirk, demand, and weakness. We discuss ...
The Essentials: Persuading People
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all need to sell others on our ideas and offerings. Oftentimes that requires planning, perspective taking, and patience. A social psychologist high...
The Essentials: Retaining Talent
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Advice from a manager at Google whose full-time job is finding solutions to the problems that make employees want to quit. She shares what to say and ...
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Starting and Scaling a Small Business
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Entrepreneurs Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson share hard-won lessons from starting and running three companies together. They reflect on what makes the...
Forging Ahead — or Plowing Through
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A satisfying career requires that we make thoughtful decisions, through self-reflection and strategic planning. But sometimes (like in 2021) plowing t...
Keep the Challenges of Freelancing in Check
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the psychological and social skills freelancers need to achieve the self-made career they envisioned? Two researchers break down the common e...
What’s Changed About How We Show Up at Work
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Which feelings (and shoes) are work-appropriate these days? An expert on authenticity joins us to share impressions of how professional behavior and d...
Becoming a Leader When Everything Is Shifting
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can you be seen as a leader, especially when you’re not even “seeing” the people you work with? We revisit an interview with two leadership ...
Take Control of Your Onboarding
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How are women who started a job remotely during the pandemic faring? We hear from several new hires about the hurdles they encountered and how they ov...
If We Want Equity, Work Needs to Be Less Greedy
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One way to help close the gender earnings gap? Deliberate redundancy at work, according to economic historian Claudia Goldin. Claudia expands on this ...
So You’re Thinking About Quitting Your Job…
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can you be confident that quitting your job is a good move for your career? And how do you handle the feelings — guilt, fear, anxiety — that c...
Dealing with the Feels After an Employee Quits
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Managers are told that when an employee resigns, they should be professional, reassure their team, and wish the person well. But we also know that res...
Leaders to Learn From
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In leading their teams and organizations through a crisis, women have repeatedly stepped up to the plate. We celebrate four of these women and highlig...
What It Takes to Make a Major Change
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re looking to upgrade your work life, know that it’s possible, manageable, and worth the effort. Two women reflect on the actions they took...
Introducing Season 7
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Starting October 11, a new collection of perspectives to learn from, advice to act on, and takeaways that buoy you up.
The Essentials: Negotiating Strategically
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we get better at negotiating? We hear from a butter maker and entrepreneur about a sensitive deal she recently navigated and then use that exp...
The Essentials: Being Productive
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Boyes, a writer and former clinical psychologist, shares the principles and practices that keep her creative and productive, but not busy. She g...
The Essentials: Dealing with Stress
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A nurse practitioner joins Amy B and an expert on workplace well-being to discuss different aspects of stress, plus principles and practices for manag...
The Essentials: Giving Feedback
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Giving feedback is critical to being a good manager, somebody people look up to and not just report to. But very few of us actually like to do it. So ...
Family Management: Looking to a Post-Pandemic Future
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As more and more people get vaccinated against Covid-19, how do you lead your family through this safer but not coronavirus-free new world? Two parent...
Family Management: On the Cusp of Parenthood
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We get inside the head of a woman whose due date is just days away. She shares with Erica her worries, hopes, and questions about how having a baby wi...
Family Management: Everyday Joys
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyday joys can boost our energy and productivity, so long as we’re able to notice and appreciate them. Kevin reflects on the presence of joy in h...
Family Management: Meet the Parents
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erica and Kevin show snapshots of life for them these days — basically, frantically working when not giving their all to childcare. They discuss how...
Introducing a Pick-Me-Up for Moms and Dads
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Gallo introduces Erica Truxler and Kevin Evers, two HBR editors hosting a series in which they confront the challenges of managing everything and ...
May We Recommend…Coaching Real Leaders
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership coach Muriel Wilkins has shared her wisdom on our show multiple times. Now you can listen to and grow from it regularly through Muriel’s ...
We Answer Questions from Early Career Listeners
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk through questions from listeners seeking advice on the challenges they’re facing early in their career — from being excluded from meeting...
Welcome Back to Remote Work, New Moms
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coming back to work after parental leave, after having a baby during a pandemic, when you and your colleagues are still working remotely — is compli...
When You Need Time Off for Health Reasons
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a team member of ours faced a serious medical problem, we recognized how little guidance there was for communicating a health crisis or chronic ...
Has Anything Changed for Black Women at Work?
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we wait for company leaders to make good on the anti-racism commitments they made earlier this year, we check in with four Black women about how th...
When You’re Ready for a Big Career Move
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes you want to make a career change, like a big one. We hear from a woman who is in the process of navigating a bold transition. Then we talk w...
Let’s Take Our Side Gigs Off the Back-Burner
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the help of an expert in side gigs, Emily confronts the hobbies, projects, and pursuits that she’s neglected, in hopes of helping herself and o...
Now Is a Good Time to Take Care of Ourselves
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re wiped out and finding it tough to stay focused, present, and optimistic. So we decided to revisit conversations that explore how and why we ge...