Alyssa Westring has been researching work-life balance for 18 years, since before she became a parent. Now an associate professor of management in the Driehaus College of Business and a mother of two, Westring thinks a lot about the advice her mother gave her when she...
Getting to the C-Suite: How Sponsorship Can Propel Your Career in Ways that Mentorship Can’t
“Sponsorship and mentorship are often used interchangeably, but they are two different things,” says Stephanie Smith (DBA ’19), vice president and chief human resources officer at DePaul. Making the distinction between the two is a big part of Smith’s recently...
Professor Shares Out-of-This-World Advice for Leadership
Like NASA, the business world operates in team-based environments. Whether these business-team environments are competitive, volatile or uncertain, they share many similarities with space crews." Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise was mostly a good leader,...


