Today is International Women's Day, a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. I wanted to honor this day by sharing some of my favorite photographs I've taken over the last 18 months of women all over the world.  Some of these women I know, while others were strangers who caught my eye.  They live on four continents and reflect the diversity, beauty, creativity, resilience, strength, and intelligence of women.

And while I celebrate these women, International Women's Day is also  a call to action for accelerating gender parity in the United States and around the world.  

Throughout my career, I’ve collaborated with colleagues, board members, executives, grantees, and clients who have lamented process, saying there’s too much of it, it’s too slow, it’s too painful.

And reflecting back on it recently, I was struck by something – process is an easy scapegoat when people don’t want to do the work.  As opposed to the status quo, process is time consuming and it requires learning and changing. 

But I think there’s another reason that process gets a bad rap.  It gets pigeon-holed as arduous and dull, and many people think it only describes a small set of ways of working.

I beg to differ.