{"id":28587,"date":"2025-09-17T11:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=28587"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:29:34","slug":"award-winning-author-melanie-ho-brings-workshop-to-marshall-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/award-winning-author-melanie-ho-brings-workshop-to-marshall-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning author Melanie Ho brings workshop to Marshall University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/bold\/\">BOLD at Marshall University<\/a>, award winning-author, speaker and visual artist Melanie Ho is presenting a workshop, Comics for Real Talk About What Women Face at Work, at Marshall University\u2019s Brad D. Smith School of Business at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct.19.<\/p>\n<p>Key themes of the workshop include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Understanding the &#8220;Goldilocks Dilemma&#8221; and other persistent double standards women face in leadership<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 The unique challenges of &#8220;the steep climb&#8221; as women advance in seniority<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Exploring the concept of intent vs. impact and how to make difficult conversations more accessible<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Challenging internalized bias: Recognizing and interrupting patterns that affect how women view themselves<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Allyship and intersectionality: Concrete actions for supporting both women and allies across genders<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Interactive doodling exercises for participants to imagine new ways forward together (no artistic experience required\u2014we&#8217;ll be using stick figures!)<\/p>\n<p>With extensive experience in higher education consulting, Ho blends over 20 years of leadership experience with a gift for making ideas come alive.<\/p>\n<p>A former corporate executive and UCLA literature instructor, she designs keynotes and workshops that use art and narrative to bring today\u2019s most urgent leadership concepts to life.<\/p>\n<p>By integrating strategy with creativity, Ho helps audiences think more expansively, engage more honestly, and lead with clarity and purpose.<\/p>\n<p>This workshop is available to female students, faculty and staff in the Marshall community. To register for this free event, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wcenter\/events\">www.marshall.edu\/wcenter\/events<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In partnership with BOLD at Marshall University, award winning-author, speaker and visual artist Melanie Ho is presenting a workshop, Comics for Real Talk About What Women Face at Work, at Marshall University\u2019s Brad D. Smith School of Business at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct.19. Key themes of the workshop include: \u00b7 Understanding the &#8220;Goldilocks Dilemma&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28589,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587\/revisions\/28589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}