Liz Elting

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Liz Elting

The WNBA’s New York Liberty was recently estimated to be valued at $450 million. Getty Images Summer 2025 is signaling a remarkable wave of milestones in women’s sports. After a strong-performing 2024 that saw equal representation between women and men at the Olympics for the first time in history as well as standout college stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese making their much-anticipated WNBA debuts, women athletes have only continued to build on their momentum.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Liz Elting

Over the past year, manager engagement has taken a noticeable nose dive. According to Gallup’s most recent “State of the Global Workplace Report,” manager engagement fell from 30% to 27% in 2024. A workplace trend known as unbossing (also popularly termed the “great flattening”) may be contributing to declining manager engagement. As this author reported previously, in the past year, big tech companies, including Meta and Salesforce, have trimmed management layers to boost efficiency.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Liz Elting

Investors are overlooking a multibillion-dollar market, and no, it isn’t crypto or AI. Amboy Street Ventures’ recent “Ghost Market Report” uncovered an untapped market for women’s health, and it’s worth $360 billion. According to Amboy Street Ventures—a venture capital fund focused on women's health—this multibillion-dollar figure accounts for “ghost markets,” or markets that don’t yet exist within the sphere of women’s health.

2 months ago | forbes.com | Liz Elting

Burnout is a multi-million-dollar hidden business expense that’s undermining corporate America’s bottom line. According to new research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM), at an average 1,000-person U.S. company, employee disengagement and burnout resulted in $5.04 million in lost costs annually. There are several ways in which burnout poses a financial risk to companies. For instance, burnout often leads to higher absenteeism and reduced productivity.

2 months ago | forbes.com | Liz Elting

When transitioning into leadership roles up the corporate ladder, it’s not unusual for many women to find themselves face-to-face with missing steps, closed doors, and extra barriers along the way—a phenomenon that’s often referred to as the broken rung. Executive search and consulting firm Spencer Stuart’s recent survey, “Women Leaders: How Far Have We Come?” found that nearly half of women executives rate access to leadership opportunities as the biggest challenge they face in the workplace.