By: Deborah Sweeney Women, despite all of the advances that our society has made, are still forced to grapple with the glass ceiling. While some women have made a name for themselves as directors and board members of major corporations, only 17% of the over 5,000 board seats for S&P 500...
By: Lee Washington Being an entrepreneur is all about empowering yourself to create a business that's right for you. It's about facing up and rising to different challenges, overcoming the day-to-day demands, learning and planning for the future. In a new campaign e-commerce specialists Alibaba...
By: Jonena Relth Over my career, I’ve watched as the yearning for leadership has grown within the female ranks around the globe. But being a woman in leadership hasn’t been and still isn’t available to all qualified women who work hard and would make excellent leaders. The glass ceilings are...
by: Inge Geerdens Being a female entrepreneur has its upsides, but also its disadvantages. Like having to find an answer to the question I - contrary to my male colleagues ? - get asked a lot. “As a mother of three children, how do you balance your work and your private life?” This time the...
By: Susan Mazza If you want to be adaptable you must be willing to let go of the need to know the answer. Why? Because there is rarely one answer: that single right answer to the questions you are being asked and are asking or the right path through the challenges you face. Sure there are...
By:Kristi Hedges Go into most companies these days and you’ll witness hand wringing around the complexities of managing a virtual workforce. Studies show that 80 percent of managers deal with dispersed teams, which may include managing people in remote locations, other countries, or in home-based...
By: Dr. Tanvi Gautam What you need is a mentor! We have all heard that piece of advice at some point or the other in our careers. Organizations believe in this idea too and many make it a policy to assign employees to mentors. While this concept is well-intentioned there is an inherent flaw in the...
By: Kathy CaprinoAs a trainer and leadership developer of women, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of HR and senior executive leaders the past 10 years, about women, growth, and paving the way for women’s ascension to leadership in corporate America. Yet what remains so disappointing...
With so much going on in Washington lately, from the sequester to gun control legislation to immigration reform, you may have missed the news that, for the first time in the agency's nearly 150-year history, the Secret Service is being run by a woman. Julia Pierson, 53, took over the top job at...
by: Laura Calandrella Ten years ago, social entrepreneurship was a pretty lonely field. There weren’t degree programs or associations; impact investing and microfinance were barely even recognized terms. Even organizations like Ashoka – which has a 25-year history of investing in entrepreneurs...
