While she’ll offer several tips in her opening remarks, Prodanovic said women also need to speak up for themselves. Once they’ve accepted that they can’t have, or do, it all, they should outsource what doesn’t serve them and their goals and “unapologetically abandon the rest” – even if that’s not easy to do because “your happiness and well-being are not a trade-off that anybody should make”.
“Take up space. Have confidence in your decision, and then be prepared to pivot,” said Prodanovic added, urging women to talk to others about their trajectories to learn how to move up.
“I have done that many times in my career: tried something that didn’t work or tried something that I really liked, and then known that I need to do more of that.”
As for finding a work-life balance, Prodanovic said it’s more about “figuring out what a healthy equilibrium is for you at this point in time, then having the confidence and conviction to go for it.”
