Articles by Jennifer Merritt
Lifestyle
Should You Date Your Co-Worker?Welcome to Levo’s Partnership Series! Through Feb. 14, we’ll advise you on how you can find your partner in the office, whether you’re looking for a business partner, best friend, mentor, or even a significant other. It started innocently enough. A few flirty instant messages, followed by the occasional lunch hour spent browsing a nearby [...] Read more»
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Skills
The Secret to Finding Mentors or SponsorsWelcome to Levo’s Partnership Series! We’ll advise you on how you can find your partner in the office, whether you’re looking for a business partner, best friend, mentor, or even a significant other. “Mentors and sponsors aren’t just handed down to you. You have to ask for it.” That’s Erica Dhawan, a leadership expert, Gen [...] Read more»
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Career Advice
Everything You Need to Know About Making Friends in the OfficeWelcome to Levo’s Partnership Series! Through Feb. 14, we’ll advise you on how you can find your partner in the office, whether you’re looking for a business partner, best friend, mentor, or even a significant other. Whether you’re at your first job fresh out of college or on your fifth career change, everyone worries about [...] Read more»
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Career Advice
From Co-Workers to Co-Founders: Finding Your Business Partner at the OfficeWelcome to Levo’s Partnership Series! Through Feb. 14, we’ll advise you on how you can find your partner in the office, whether you’re looking for a business partner, best friend, mentor, or even a significant other. Co-workers: You spend up to eight hour a day with them, sometimes more. You grab the occasional lunch or [...] Read more»
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News
A History of African-American Women in the WorkforceIt’s no secret that woman have had to work hard to get to where we are now in the workplace. (And we’re still not on equal footing.) But it’s also no secret that African-American women in particular have had to work harder. In research for their book, Documenting Desegregation, authors Kevin Stainback and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey [...] Read more»
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Career Advice
The Surprising Career Where Women Are More Satisfied Than MenWe don’t have to tell you how challenging it can be for women in the workplace. From negotiating equal pay to navigating stereotypes, study after study shows how women often struggle to feel fully satisfied on the job. But a new report proves there is at least one field in which we can consistently report [...] Read more»
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Lifestyle
How to Feel Better in the Skin That You’re in Right NowTweet this article if you or someone you know has body image issues. And with that, I just wrote the most viral article on the planet. The point is, I have never known a woman who didn’t loathe a part of her body. (I even know someone who is prone to complain about her too-bony [...] Read more»
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Lifestyle
6 Significant First Lady “Firsts”Today, Inauguration Day, Michelle Obama becomes the first African-American woman to serve two terms as first lady of the United States. (And what a happy coincidence that today also is the day we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr!) While there is plenty of debate over the significance of the position of first lady (fun fact: [...] Read more»
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Career Advice
Tara Guenthner: From Intern to Championship Director at the PGAIf you’ve been checking in here regularly (and we hope you are!) you probably know that this is Golf Week here at Levo, and so it’s only fitting that we spent Office Hours with Tara Guenthner, a well-known former championship director for The PGA of America, who now owns her own event design company, Hipp [...] Read more»
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Lifestyle
Why The PGA Wants You to Get Golf ReadyIf you’re anything like me, you’ve always thought of golf as a bit of a boys’ club and a sport for old people. At least, that’s how I felt until I went to the driving range with my old roommate — not only did I see a plethora of cute young men, but also woke [...] Read more»
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