By The Boston Club Numerous gains were made in gender diversification in boardrooms and executive suites in the Census companies this past year. We appreciate this progress and applaud the companies involved. Nevertheless, this is no time for complacency — we still have a long way to go. Definite Progress This Year • Women account … Continue reading Winds of Change – 2018 Key Findings
By Wharton University of Pennsylvania Inditex, a Spanish trailblazer, has disrupted the retail industry with its fast fashion concept through its Zara brand. While other retailers have been closing stores, Zara continues to open new stores across the globe. What does Zara do that its competition has struggled to replicate? The fashion retailer has turned … Continue reading Business Model Innovation: Changing the Game with Existing Products and Customers
By Emily Peck, HuffPost Women make less than half what men earn over the long term, according to a new study. The gender wage gap is actually worse than you think, with women earning slightly less than half of what men make over the long term, according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute … Continue reading The Gender Wage Gap Is Even Worse Than You Thought
By Peggy Wallace, Managing Partner of Golden Seeds A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking about financial empowerment to women leaders from around the world with economic and personal influence. This took place during the Journey to Legacy simulcast which launched ShoulderUp, co-founded by EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Phyllis Newhouse and Academy Award winner, Viola … Continue reading Why Golden Seeds is stepping in to ShoulderUp
By NWBC Council Millennial women, those born between 1982 and 2000, represent the future of entrepreneurship in America. According to 2015 Census Bureau data, there are 83.1 million millennials in the United States. By the year 2025, millennials will comprise 75 percent of the American workforce, and many will become entrepreneurs. At the National Women’s … Continue reading Profile of Millennial Women: The Future of Entrepreneurship in America
By Lindsey Carnett, CEO and President of Marketing Maven & WPO Member Your online personal brand is as important as the first impression at a meeting. We all Google a new contact, relying on their digital footprint to form what we think of them as a potential client, employee or connection. Creating a personal brand … Continue reading How to Shape Your Online Personal Brand
By Karen Zimmerman, Managing Director at Golden Seeds and Lead Investor in DEVCON How catching an ad fraud thief who stole $1 million inspired one founder to create an anti-fraud software company for publishers: After working with law enforcement to facilitate the first-ever conviction for online ad theft and money laundering, Maggie Louie knew she could … Continue reading How did she do it? A Q&A with Maggie Louie, CEO and co-founder of DEVCON
By Sue Hawkes, CEO of YESS! and WPO Chapter Chair Female business leaders are seen as tough, confident women who can handle anything. This is true, but what happens when a true catastrophe happens in your life? I had this experience in 2008. The economy had crashed so my two businesses were failing, my house … Continue reading How to Handle a Personal Crisis as a Female CEO
By: Geri Stengel, Forbes Contributor If you think tech founders are motivated to start their companies by money, you are wrong. Only a small percent of male founders (15%) and a tiny percentage of female founders (2%) are motivated by money, according to Gender Differences in Entrepreneurship: Voices of Founders and Funders conducted by Illuminate Venture, a … Continue reading Style Over Substance: How VCs’ Perceptions Of Female Founders Is Slowing The Economy
By Eric Nadler, Managing Director of Golden Seeds and Co-Leader of Sector Group for Consumer Products and Applications During Golden Seeds September 2018 Forum, our featured speaker, Carlos Gutierrez, Sr., shared his views on innovation and business with our investors. He was introduced and interviewed by his son Carlos Gutierrez, Jr., a fellow Golden Seeds investor. … Continue reading Cereal Success: Former CEO of Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of Commerce shares with Golden Seeds
With the increased dialogue of income disparity, it is no surprise (but unfortunate) that in even in the freelance businesses women make less than men. The question becomes are people less willing
By Advantage ForbesBooks In the crucible of leadership, nothing squeezes a leader more than uncertainty. – Henry Maudslay As of late, there has been much discussion about a business’ ability to adapt to a changing environment. Although adaptability is critical to success in the digital age, we have yet to discuss the more human side … Continue reading HOW BUSINESS LEADERS CAN COMBAT UNCERTAINTY, STRESS AND FEAR
By Nicolene Schoeman-Louw We have all heard that horror story of being “duped” by a scamster. Often when we read about these incidents, let’s be honest, many of us think “it will never happen to me.” As an attorney, our clients are often confronted by the reality that, in the age of the internet and all … Continue reading Beware of the everyday fraud!
By: Key4Women We all have unconscious biases that are often invisible to us, but they influence our actions, decisions and behaviors which impact our perceptions and interactions with others. But there’s good news, as Kim Manigault and Suzette Silk explain: Business leaders have the unique power to drive societal change by acknowledging unconscious bias in … Continue reading Create Real Change by Confronting Unconscious Bias
By Deborah Doyle, Managing Director of Golden Seeds and member of the board of directors at hOM How one CEO’s mission-driven meditation business is leveraging underutilized real estate and connecting neighbors: The spark that ignited Francesca Loftus and her co-founders’ mission to create hOM began when two of their mothers were diagnosed with cancer. Both successful executives, the … Continue reading How did she do it? A Q&A with Francesca Loftus, CEO of hOM