Career

Career Growth & Professional Development for Women

Career growth for women is rarely linear. From navigating confidence challenges and leadership expectations to managing transitions and redefining success, professional development requires more than traditional advice. At Women Rising Program, we explore career growth through a deeper lens – one that integrates confidence, purpose, power, and wellbeing.

In this Career Resource Hub, Megan Dalla-Camina, Founder of Women Rising and author of Women Rising, brings together her most impactful articles on career growth for women, offering guidance for every stage of your professional journey. Whether you’re building confidence at work, stepping into leadership, navigating a career transition, or seeking a more sustainable work-life balance, these insights are designed to support both outer success and inner alignment.

Rather than quick fixes, our approach to career development for women focuses on long-term growth – helping you make empowered career decisions, strengthen your professional presence, and create work that reflects who you truly are.
Explore the curated career articles below to deepen your self-awareness, expand your leadership capacity, and move forward with clarity and confidence.

Our tested way of building a career plan

By Megan Dalla-Camina, Women Rising Founder & CEO In the incredibly fast paced world we’re living in with so much change, having a career plan might feel like it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Whilst a plan set in stone isn’t a great use of your time, having a directional vision for where you want to […]

How to manage conflict at work

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We’d like our workplace relationships to always look and feel like everybody’s happy, but as I’m sure you know and have experienced, this is often not the case. 85% of workers experience conflict at work on some level and research shows that people spend an average of 2.8 hours at work each week dealing with […]

Where are you at on the Career Mastery Curve?

A framework that can be helpful to think about when it comes to your career planning and trajectory, as well as how you’re feeling in your current role, is a concept called the career mastery curve. It’s something that’s rarely spoken about, but I know from working with thousands of women inside the Women Rising […]

3 Things That Determine Your Executive Presence

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What is executive presence? It’s one of those things that can seem too intangible to grasp, which often means it can be hard to develop and embody this critical leadership capability. But once you know what it is and what the components are, it’s then possible to build the skills that are required to create […]

5 Things You Need Now For Career Success

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By Megan Dalla-Camina, Women Rising Founder & CEO There are many elements to building a successful career that you love. However you define that success, there are five important factors we have found from working with thousands of women that influence and lay the foundations for not just a thriving career, but a fulfilling life. And […]

Are you fuelling wellbeing or burnout?

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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND DO (+ GET OUR FREE BURNOUT GUIDE). This week we’re continuing with our series of articles on burnout because we know it’s something that’s resonating deeply with a so many women right now. In fact, according to the latest research from Lean In, 42% of women say they’ve […]