While I was writing today’s blog about collaboration, I went to my image resource for a photo of an iconic partnership–a couple photographed from behind with the sun beaming rays all around them, or something similarly inspiring. What I repeatedly found was this–white men in business suits shaking hands. Not my world!

Where are the women professionals? Few and far between! People of color? Forget it! Women over 4o? Not on this stock photo site. It’s not a battle I choose to take on, but a quiet reminder that there are still unspoken hurdles to leap out there in the world of business and life.

My piece on collaboration will wait until next week when I’ve had time to locate a more suitable representation for my message.