Career GPS

“Career GPS serves as the business coach you never had but always wanted.“
—Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office and See Jane Lead

Career GPS is a clear-eye, timely, and thought-provoking guide for any woman looking to advance up the corporate ladder and/or optimize her performance in any work environment, no matter what the state of the economy. Presented by Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D., founder and president of ASCENT—Leading Multicultural Women to the Top, and Linda Villarosa, award-winning former editor at Essence magazine and the New York Times, these “Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape” belongs on every working woman’s bookshelf.

Author Biography

Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D., is an associate professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University. Coauthor of the groundbreaking Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity, she has written for Essence magazine and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, Working Mother, and other publications.

Linda Villarosa, a former editor at Essence magazine and the New York Times, runs the journalism program at the City College of New York. She is the author of several books, including the bestseller Body & Soul: The Black Women’s Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-being and the novel Passing for Black.