Play Smart featured in the Texas Exes Alcalde alongside fellow Longhorn alumni authors

"Are you seeking your own personal mentor to excel in a male-dominated workplace? Look no further than Play Smart. This comprehensive guide is filled with valuable insights, practical advice, and actionable strategies to empower women and educate men in challenging work environments. With over 30 years of professional experience, Kimichik offers a self-help manual that covers a wide array of topics, including how to build a strong professional network, seek proper mentorship, advocate for yourself, educate your male colleagues and human resources for assistance, balance parenthood with career aspirations, negotiate salaries or raises, overcome gender bias and unequal pay, and confidently navigate the boys’ club corporate culture—all with grace and confidence. Through inspiring examples and real-life anecdotes, this book is essential reading for any woman looking to advance her career and shatter glass ceilings)"

"A seminal, 'real world' practical, and thoroughly 'user friendly' combination of instructional guide and 'how to' manual for women in business, "Play Smart: Playground Strategies for Success in a Male-Dominated Workplace" is extraordinarily informative, exceptionally well written, deftly organized and impressively presented...Play Smart by Brigitte Gawenda Kimichik is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college/university library Business Management/Motivation collections and supplemental MBA curriculum studies lists."

"Overall, Play Smart is an essential read for any woman looking to build a positive reputation and rise in a competitive workplace. Kimichik’s advice empowers women to thrive at work while providing a roadmap for doing so.

I recommend this book to professional women and women who are looking to rise in their careers. Whether you’re just starting or are already an established professional, Play Smart by Brigitte Gawenda Kimichik, JD provides excellent strategies for success."

"Creating a healthier work culture isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s the smart thing to do." 

- Brigitte Gawenda Kimichik

"Play Nice inspires hope for a future where workplaces are safer and more inclusive. It is an important resource for anyone navigating workplace dynamics and it is especially important for the younger generation, who are entering the workforce. They can be educated and empowered to act before problems get out of hand. I wish I had access to this excellent resource when I entered the workforce as a shy teenager. I would have been more empowered to handle inappropriate behavior in the workplace. “Play Nice” will help create and maintain a respectful and equitable work environment. In a world where change is desperately needed, this book will be a guide to help that happen."

"This achievement is a testament to your extraordinary talent and the innovative spirit you bring to the world of literature, especially within the vibrant community of self-published authors."

"Play Nice: Playground Rules for Respect in the Workplace is a compelling, informative, and memorable book about a topic that is not openly discussed enough that compelled me to read as well as inform me from beginning to end! Play Nice is a book I was happy to discover because many people struggle with sexual harassment and don’t know how to tackle it, but Play Nice provides you with the tools to do just this and the result is an incredible and important book that shouldn’t be missed!"

"Play Nice," the first groundbreaking book from The Sandbox Series, has been awarded the Gold in the 2024 Reader Views Literary Awards Winners from the Readers' Views Classics Business Category!

"Companies should allow for a more flexible and transparent working environment to help employees change their work habits as needed to accommodate challenges as they arise."

Brigitte Kimichik

Remote Report, Insights on the business of remote work covers "Remote sexual harassment happens. Here’s how companies should respond" and features expert advice including from Play Nice! author Brigitte Kimichik. 

Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Play Nice: Playground Rules for Respect in the Workplace" is a timely and critically important contribution to our current and on- going national dialogue over how to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace.

Sexual harassment has become an all too common narrative in today’s work environment, as organizations fail to create respectful workplaces for employees. As a result, more states are doubling down on sexual harassment prevention training requirements for employers. “Check out Brigitte’s advice as author of Play Nice.”  

Play Nice: Playground Rules for Respect in the Workplace 

Takes things back to basics by applying the rules we all learned on the playground and applying them to the modern day workplace. 

In the heat of today's #MeToo Movement, on of the most hotly discussed topics is sexual harassment in the workplace. Play Nice is an indispensable resource - both for empowering those who wish to reassert their boundaries and for teaching allies how to help. 

Play Nice: Playground Rules for Respect in the Workplace 

For empowering those who wish to reassert their boundaries and for teaching allies how to help in this fight.

Play Nice! author Brigitte Kimichik provides guidance on what employers can do in the SHRM 2019 Report: Sexual Harassment Has Long-Term Economic Impact on Women "Your policies and procedures should not be window dressing. Don't be afraid to open up a can of worms" and talk about this issue, said Brigitte Gawenda Kimichik. She is co-author of Play Nice: Playground Rules for Respect in the Workplace

Sarah Gallo, associate editor at Training Industry, Inc., and co-host of The Business of Learning, the Training Industry podcast covers What is Digital Harassment? How Can Training Help? Bystander Intervention, and more with Play Nice! with author Brigitte Kimichik. The tell-tale signs of sexual harassment have become all too clear to employees across industries. But the line between what’s appropriate and what’s not can easily become blurred when working remotely. After all, working from home “tends to “take on a more casual tone,” says Brigitte Gawenda Kimichik, JD, author of “Play Nice: Playground Rules for Respect in the Workplace” and a recently retired attorney. This “decrease in formality,” she says, can hinder workplace civility, professionalism and accountability, all of which contribute to a culture that tolerates harassment.

After working in a male dominated environment for more than 30 years, Brigitte decided to publish her first book, Play Nice: Playground Rules for Respect in the Workplace, with a friend, JR Tomlinson. Play Nice  provides victims of sexual harassment and bystanders in and outside of the workplace with realistic tools on how to deal with bad behavior on the spot – to foster confidence, personal well-being and a more successful working relationship between women and men.  

Drawing from personal experiences Brigitte and J.R. share a powerful provoking message encouraging us all to PLAY NICE   at work and at play…together. No matter if you are a woman or man cooperation in the “sandbox” lifts up the team with advanced and prolonged achievements. Brigitte and J.R. want us to know that we can accomplish anything if we learn to work and PLAY NICE together.

Brigitte Kimichik, JD and her co-author, JR Tomlinson, recently met guests … for the book launch of Play Nice: Playground Rules for Respect in the Workplace. Play Nice  tackles sexual harassment in the workplace.

Play Nice  arms readers with simple tools to help combat sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. Learn to communicate confidently to stop harassing behavior and make an impression that will not wreck careers. It also introduces rules and takeaways to help navigate the close-quarters sandbox within the workplace playground. 

- Alan Cundy