Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: Shattering Limiting Beliefs and Toxic Behaviors to Uncover Infinite Possibilities

Have you ever struggled with impostor syndrome, perfectionism, fear, or burnout?

Success and fulfillment have always been the goal, but you find yourself stuck, making it impossible to move forward.

Women face unprecedented challenges in the workplace and find themselves staring up at the glass ceiling. But what if it wasn’t the glass ceiling that was holding you back . . . but rather your own “sticky floors”—those limiting beliefs and toxic behaviors that are within your control?

Erica is a sticky floor survivor. As a high-achieving ceiling breaker and C-level leader, she masked her struggles to everyone around her—even herself. From feelings of being an impostor to using wine to cope with burnout, it wasn’t until she was faced with the shocking reality that she could lose everything that she stared down her deeply held beliefs about being a “perfect” wife, mom, and executive. Ultimately, Erica was able to snap out of her sticky floors and find fulfillment, and uses her stories to help other women navigate their paths to success.

Erica Rooney is a leadership expert and AI educator with 15+ years in Human Resources, rising to Chief People Officer, a seat she still holds. Her first book, Glass Ceilings & Sticky Floors, endorsed by Mel Robbins, named the two things holding women back: the systemic barriers above them and the self-imposed ones underfoot.
 
Then artificial intelligence arrived in every workplace at once, and the gap she had spent a career closing started compounding daily. So she stopped talking only about ceilings and started talking about gaps. Her second book, The AI Gap: Women, AI, and the Next Great Leap Forward, hit Amazon's bestseller list in Career Advancement.
 
She is the founder of HER Collective, a private AI training and career acceleration membership for women, built to close the AI gap where it pays: promotions, paychecks, executive seats, and the businesses women build. Members get hands-on AI training on their real work, weekly live coaching with Erica, and a room of women who share what they asked for, what they got, and how they did it.
 
Erica hosts the Glass Ceilings & Sticky Floors podcast, co-hosts the Telly Award-winning AI Voice or Victim, and serves as the North Carolina Regional State Lead for Women Applying AI. She has spoken on stages including SXSW, SHRM, and CHIEF, and been featured in Forbes, SUCCESS Magazine, and CBS. The premise behind all of her work: good work does not speak for itself, and AI is about to decide who gets hired, paid, and promoted next.