I built my own business helping tech companies for over 3 decades. I got to watch as women expanded our reach and range. I thought we were done with the Old Boy’s Club BS. Not even close.

When I started in tech, the old boys’ club was the way they’d always done it. We were the interlopers. It was status quo at it’s finest, or is that worst? Today? It’s a choice.

Our first instinct is to blame ourselves for not anticipating a decision we’ve been deliberately excluded from. That’s not a confidence problem. That’s a program running as designed.

After 35 years in boardrooms, war rooms and parking lots where people’s lives were detonated for a stock bump, I’ve learned one thing that changed everything. You can’t win the game if the rules are stacked against you.