Why the work term “Professional” needs a permanent vacation.

Only workplace bullies call someone “unprofessional.”

Emily O. Weltman
coFLOWco
Published in
5 min readSep 23, 2021

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Image search for “Professional” on canvas. These are the 1st images that come up, left to right.

I could write a book on being “professional” and how much I hate the word. Evidently, I am not alone. Whose decides these standards?

Dress professionally. What does a “professional” even look like? According to Canva, Google, and Unsplash, a…

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Emily O. Weltman
coFLOWco

Emily Weltman, M. Ed., strategy consultant, social entrepreneur + coFLOWco founder is “Leading with Purpose–because the patriarchy isn’t going to fix Itself.”💫