By Prudential, Corporate Sponsor Women are doing incredible things: Leading multimillion-dollar companies, making a meaningful impact as entrepreneurs, and much more. While such achievements are certainly noteworthy today, you don’t want to overlook your tomorrow and the type of impact you’ll have then. The financial legacy you’re able to leave in the future is directly … Continue reading How Creating An Estate Plan Can Protect You Legacy
By Bonny Boice, President of BGB Consulting and Retreats, LLC. and Chapter Chair of WPO Albany I, Albany II, & Saratoga Springs Chapters. Members in the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO) Capital Region recognized a unique opportunity in sponsoring the Aurora games. Aligning with excellence in women’s sports was a perfect match. An international organization with … Continue reading The Power and Promise of New York’s Women Entrepreneurs
By Richard A. Devine & Siri Terjesen, The Conversation Only a handful of the top companies in the U.S. are led by a woman. Efforts to change that and promote more women into positions of leadership have relied primarily on questions of equality. But is there also a business case for putting more women in charge? Read … Continue reading Women Entrepreneurs Thrive Managing Talented Teams and Balancing Many Investors
By Michael Schulman, The New Yorker Much of consequence happened in 1969, which means that this year is chockablock with golden anniversaries: the moon landing, Stonewall, the Manson murders. But do not neglect the fact that 2019 also marks a half century of Jazzercise. The leaders of Jazzercise, Inc., know what you’re thinking. “When you hear … Continue reading Born Before the Fitness Industry, Jazzercise Turns Fifty
By Kimberly Zhang, Entrepreneur What better way to shatter a glass ceiling than by leaving the atmosphere altogether? The first all-woman spacewalk this March is a testament to just how far we’ve come. Down on Earth, though, we still have a long way to go. Barriers to progress remain frustratingly solid. Governments and businesses continue to introduce … Continue reading To See More Women in Leadership Roles, Here’s What Needs to Happen
By Lindsey Carnett, CEO and President of Marketing Maven & WPO Los Angeles I Chapter member The WPO Annual Conference brought together driven women from multi-million-dollar businesses around the globe. This year’s theme was particularly important – Leading Up. Building a strong, engaged workforce is important to the long-term success of a business. Getting it … Continue reading Women Leading Up: Why Managing Human Capital is Vital for Entrepreneurial Success
By Stephanie Burns, ForbesWomen When I became an entrepreneur, I distinctly remember thinking, “I had no idea I would be writing this much. My main job function is writing.” I was in the thick of creating Chic CEO, a website designed to give women the resources they needed to start a business. But what I was … Continue reading 5 Things No One Tells You When You Become An Entrepreneur
By Sunnie Giles, Harvard Business Review What makes an effective leader? This question is a focus of my research as an organizational scientist, executive coach, and leadership development consultant. Looking for answers, I recently completed the first round of a study of 195 leaders in 15 countries over 30 global organizations. Participants were asked to … Continue reading The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
By Alison Gutterman, Forbes As challenging as it can be for modern businesswomen to snag capital, they have a serious head start when compared to female entrepreneurs of past generations. Congress didn’t pass the Women’s Business Ownership Act until the late 1980s to help eliminate gender discrimination in lending. Before that point, female entrepreneurs could not even … Continue reading Momentum Is Finally Building For Women Entrepreneurs — Let’s Keep It Rolling
By Falon Fatemi, Forbes The data is all too real and familiar. When it comes to raising capital, males consistently outperform females. According to research by All Raise, only 15% of venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. What’s more troubling, despite a lot of concern and advocacy, we really haven’t done much to address the … Continue reading The Value of Investing in Female Founders
By Monique Greenwood, Entrepreneur Most women under the age of, say, 45 dread a particular time of the month. (Fellas, stay with me.) So, Arion Long, an African American millennial out of the Washington, D.C., area, came up with the Femly Box, a way to make the monthly menstrual routine less burdensome and more like … Continue reading Black Female Founders Face Constant Rejection. They’re Thriving Anyway.
By Geri Stengel, ForbesWomen Between 1972 — the first year the Census Bureau began tracking the gender of business owners — and 2018, women-owned businesses have grown from representing 5% of all business to 40%, according to American Express 2018 State of Women-Owned Businesses (SWOB)*. However, their economic clout has not grown equally. In 2018, women-owned … Continue reading New York City Is Opening Doors With $35 Million For Women Entrepreneurs And Makers
By Geri Stengel, ForbesWomen Women are increasingly striking out on their own and finding success as entrepreneurs. Between 2007 and 2018, the growth rate of women-owned businesses generating revenues of more than $1 million outpaced the rate of businesses in general: 46% compared to 12% respectively, according to American Express 2018 State of Women-Owned Businesses*. Wealth management … Continue reading How Women Entrepreneurs are Redefining Managing their Wealth
By Karen Tracey, Owner of Dunelm Business Consultants & WPO Birmingham UK Chapter Chair Coaching and mentoring are hugely important to entrepreneurs and women respond brilliantly to a proper coach or mentor. Getting all this right is down to a number of things but there are two things that are critical: 1. Understanding the difference … Continue reading Matching Mentors and Mentees
By David Nethero and Kim Seals, managing directors of Golden Seeds, leaders of Golden Seeds’ investment in Acivilate After working in aerospace, this entrepreneur turned to more traditional technology, helping to create digital TV and securing five patents. But what she dreamed of doing was providing people released from incarceration a second chance. Today, her … Continue reading How did she do it? A Q&A with Louise Wasilewski, CEO and Founder of Acivilate