Workplace dysfunction is like a bacterial infection that can rip through a company and mess with employee morale. The Corporate Dominatrix Goddess archetype is an expert at “creative distancing,” or keeping you at arms length from office situations that are negative and people who are toxic. This practice helps you retain your objectivity, your equilibrium, Read More »

The workplace can be both a stimulating, motivating playground, as well as a discouraging, disheartening obstacle course. How we internalize (or externalize) our environment and the positive and negative messages we receive everyday, has to do with our perceptions & levels of awareness. The office can be an unforgiving place, and even women with healthy Read More »

How well do the S&M principles of dominance, submission, sadism and masochism fit into our corporate models? You’d be surprised. Have you ever had a sadistic boss, or had to work with masochistic colleagues before? Throughout my 30-year career, I’ve navigated and survived my share of corporate mergers, department shake-ups, political infighting, corporate misogynists, and office Read More »

The 2012 Newsweek cover story, The Fantasy Life of Working Women: Why Surrender is a Feminist Dream, caused a firestorm of buzz on and offlinedue largely to the non-feminist hidden desire women hold for submission in the bedroom. But Dominique Browning hit the nail on the head with the article, “Working Women Get S&M All Day.” Sadomasochism is alive Read More »