CEO of CHIKA's Foods Chika Russell on Resilience and Adaptabilty
Chika Russell is an international entrepreneur, mentor, and speaker. A qualified management accountant, she spent 10 years in banking before launching her snacks business, CHIKA’S FOODS. Since its inception, CHIKA’S FOODS has grown rapidly, and Chika has now embarked on her most ambitious project to date: making CHIKA’S Africa the largest independent snack company in West Africa by 2027.
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Dr. Angela Jackson on Unlocking the Secrets of Board Service: Five Key Lessons Learned
Dr. Angela Jackson is a Workplace Futurist and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) expert.
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Journalist and Menopause Advocate Tamsen Fadal on Menopause and Breaking the Stigma
Tamsen Fadal is an award-winning journalist, menopause advocate, and social media’s “midlife mentor.” After three decades of being a news anchor, Tamsen pivoted her career towards women’s health advocacy, guiding her audience of 3+ million through midlife and beyond. She is the producer and executive producer of the PBS documentary, The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause, and the author of her new book, How To Menopause.
Activist and CEO Reshma Saujani on Her New Podcast My So-Called Midlife
Reshma Saujani is a leading activist and the founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, formerly Marshall Plan for Moms.
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Maryam Banikarim, Managing Director, Fortune Live Media & Co-Founder, NYCNext on Powerful Women and Community Organizing
Maryam Banikarim is the Managing Director of Fortune Live Media where she leads the media company’s Most Powerful Women (MPW) and Brainstorm Tech global franchises.
CNN Anchor Zain Asher on Gratitude as a Practice
Zain Asher is an anchor for CNN International based in New York.
Artist, Writer and Executive Kristina Libby on An Unexpected Way to Manage Grief and Drive Innovation: A Creative Practice
Five years ago, I experienced a traumatic brain injury while kitesurfing.
Why the Right Partner Matters for Your Career: A New Take by L. Michelle Smith
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Unpacking the Mythology of the Alpha CEO
When you hear the word “alpha,” you probably conjure up an image of wolves fighting for the role of leader , or men vying it out for supremacy... which brings us to the topic at hand, the “Alpha CEO.”
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Lorine Pendleton on Making the Business Case for Diverse Founders
A seasoned early-stage/VC investor, global public speaker, Board Member, business development executive and former attorney with extensive experience in the legal, technology, media and entertainment industries.
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Bethann Hardison, American Model and Activist, On Going After What You Want
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What is an Alpha CEO
When you hear the word alpha, you probably conjure up an image of wolves fighting for the role of leader, or maybe a certain type of person... All of which is relevant to the topic at hand, the Alpha CEO.
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Networking IV: Are Women’s Networks Valuable?
Today, we’re going a step further and in considering the value of women’s networks, specifically. Women’s networks provide unique opportunities to connect with other women with similar goals across various industries and catalyze our ability to share learnings, expertise, and insights.
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Sustainable Success: What it Takes to Stay at the Top
Climbing the ladder is one thing; remaining in positions of leadership, power, and influence for a long period is quite another. We spoke with three women who have withstood the test of time in leading organizations and ventures, and they shared their tips for leadership over the long haul, maintaining personal wellness while meeting the needs of demanding careers, and overcoming challenges.
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Corley Hughes On How to Think Like A CFO
As Chief Financial Officer for SonderMind, Corley Hughes leads the finance, operations, and people functions with a builder’s mentality, strengthening the business delivering high-quality mental and behavioral health care while creating a career-defining place to work. Previously she held executive roles at &Then, Glossier, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Product Hunt.
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Krista Bourne, Former Chief Operating Officer of Verizon's Consumer Group, About the Benefits of Staying Loyal to A Company
Most recently, Krista served as Chief Operating Officer of Verizon Consumer Group where she led five consumer channels including 1,500 corporate stores and more than 5,000 authorized retail stores, multiple non-exclusive national retail relationships and a globally-operated customer service program. She led a distributed team of 30,000 employees who served more than 110 million customers and helped deliver more than $100 billion in annual revenue.
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Christie Marchese, CEO of Kinema, on Creating A Mission-based Company
Christie Marchese is the CEO of Kinema, a disruptive film distribution platform that empowers filmmakers and transforms any space into a social cinema, for which she successfully raised a $2M seed round led by Kindred Ventures. She was previously the founder and CEO of Picture Motion, an impact agency that generated over $13M in revenue.
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Sarah LaFleur, CEO of M.M. LaFleur, on Leading Through Challenging Times
Sarah LaFleur is the Founder & CEO of M.M.LaFleur. Sarah founded M.M.LaFleur in 2013 with a mission to help women take the work out of getting dressed, so they can focus on the work that matters to them. Prior to founding M.M.LaFleur, she worked at Bain & Co. in New York and TechnoServe in South Africa.
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Christine Tao, CEO of Sounding Board, on Leadership at All Levels
Christine Tao is the co-founder and CEO of Sounding Board, the first Dynamic Leader Development Suite designed to bridge the leadership gap at all levels. Before founding Sounding Board in 2016, she enjoyed several roles in Silicon Valley, including Google, YouTube, TapJoy, and other startups.
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DEI Strategist TaChelle Lawson on Smart DEI Strategy
With over 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry with an emphasis on food & beverage and luxury retail, TaChelle Lawson brings a fresh, no-nonsense approach to diversity, equity and inclusion. She is a dynamic public speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, and enlightened business leader laser-focused on aligning DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) with business and brand goals to help build client revenues and strengthen brand equity.
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Rachel Johnson on How to Set Up Your Company for a Successful Acquisition
Rachel Johnson is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of J&O Law, a firm focused on representing high-growth companies as they scale. Since founding J&O in 2014 with her Co-Founder, Christina Oshan, the firm has grown to a team of 20 with offices in both New York City and South Florida.
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Shannon Nash, CFO at Wing (an Alphabet, Inc company), On Getting onto Boards and Staying Creative
Shannon currently serves as Chief Financial Officer at Wing, a drone delivery company and subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc. She serves as an independent director on several boards, including NetScout Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) and SoFi Bank a subsidiary of SoFi Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI). She's also on the Board and Audit Chair at Lazy Dog Restaurants. Previously, she was on the board of UserTesting (NYSE: USER), including Lead Independent Director and Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee.
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Christine Choi, Partner at M13, on Brand Communications and Generating Impact
A partner and head of brand/communications for M13, Christine Choi worked with Sir Richard Branson to launch Virgin Group’s North American portfolio and was the first head of communications for Virgin Galactic/Virgin Orbit/The Spaceship Company. She serves on the boards of KIPP NJ and Virgin Unite US.
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Priya Chaudhry On Standing Up to Bullies And Following the Truth
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Vanessa Liu on the State of Entrepreneurship, AI and How to Pivot
Vanessa has worn numerous hats, most recently as CEO of SugarWork.
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Maja Hazell on DEI, Leadership and the Year Ahead
2024 will be a year that provides a lot of answers about what a commitment to DEI really means.
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Geren Lockhart on How To Move Seamlessly Through Industries
Geren Lockhart focuses on building brands that encourage positive change through everyday choices.
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Megha Desai on Leadership, Pivoting, and Board Seats
Megha is President of the Desai Foundation, a public non-profit that elevates the health, livelihood and menstrual equity of women and children through community programs in rural India.
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Kat de Haën, Co-founder of The Fourth Effect, on Board Seats and Community
Kat de Haën is a co-founder of The Fourth Effect, a board marketplace dedicated to closing the gender power, wealth and funding gap.
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Regan Robinson on the Future
The biggest mistake is waiting until it's too late to see about the future.
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Mona Sinha on The Future of Women in Business and the World
S. Mona Sinha is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, an organization that campaigns for legal and systemic change around the world to address violence and discrimination against women and girls.
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Lipi Roy, MD, on the Power of Laughter and the Misconceptions of Addiction
Dr. Lipi Roy is an internal medicine physician board-certified in addiction medicine, a sought- after international speaker, media personality, entrepreneur and host of the YouTube series, Health, Humor and Harmony.
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Grace Zuncic on Board Readiness and People Management
Grace Zuncic is Cotopaxi’s first Chief People and Impact Officer. She brings to Cotopaxi a passion for creating transformational experiences at inclusive, purpose and mission- driven organizations and in ensuring organizational impact in the areas of sustainability, impact, culture, and corporate strategy.
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Kimberly Lee Minor on Leadership, in Retail Landscapes and All Landscapes
Kimberly Lee Minor is an esteemed leader in the retail industry. She has had a career spanning over 30 years, building brands, achieving operational excellence, and strategizing for business competitiveness.
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Becca Parrish, CEO of Becca, On Leadership And Communications
Following her new partnership with Prosek, Becca Parrish shares her lessons in leadership.
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Palak Patel on How Food is Love and Leadership Is Opportunity
Palak Patel is a classically trained chef, Atlanta restaurant owner, and two time food network champion winner of Food Network’s famed shows Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay.
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Reshma Saujani On Prioritizing Yourself and Your Mission
Reshma Saujani is a leading activist and the founder of Girls Who Code and founder and CEO of Moms First (formerly Marshall Plan for moms).
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Nikki Porcher on Why You Need to Buy From A Black Woman
Nikki Porcher is an advocate for Black Women and the Founder of Buy From a Black Woman.
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Mita Mallick on Reimagining Inclusion and Debunking the Myths That Hold Us Back
Mallick is a LinkedIn Top Voice, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, Adweek, Entrepreneur and Fast Company.
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WIE Suite Tastemakers' Holiday Must-Have Items
This holiday, the WIE Suite asked tastemaker members for their holiday must-have gifts.
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Vanessa Bismarck on the Luxury Market and the Future
Vanessa von Bismarck is a co-founding partner of BPCM, a strategic consulting and communications agency, and one of the most established and respected voices in public relations.
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Margaret Molloy on CMO Trends
Margaret Molloy is Global Chief Marketing Officer at the global brand experience firm Siegel+Gale and hosts the "How CMOs Commit" podcast.
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Kit Krugman, SVP of People and Culture at Foursquare, on Organization Excellence, People and Culture
Kit Krugman is the SVP of People & Culture at Foursquare.
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Gloria Calderon Kellett, Hollywood Powerhouse, on the State of Hollywood for Latinas
Gloria Calderón Kellett is an award-winning writer, producer, director, actress and activist. She was an executive producer, co-creator, co-showrunner, director, and actress on the Emmy-winning sitcom “One Day at a Time”. Her critically acclaimed Amazon Original series, “With Love” just released its second season on Amazon. Along with Blumhouse Television, Gloria also executive produced “The Horror of Dolores Roach” based on the hit podcast reuniting her with star Justina Machado.
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Dr. Joan Fallon on Healthcare and Innovation
Dr. Joan Fallon, Founder and CEO of Curemark, is considered a visionary scientist who has dedicated her life’s work to championing the health and wellbeing of children worldwide. Curemark is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies to treat serious diseases for which there are limited treatment options.
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Susan McPherson on Writing, Community and Connection
Susan McPherson is a serial connector, angel investor, and corporate responsibility expert. She is the founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, a communications consultancy focused on the intersection of brands and social impact. She is the author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships (McGraw-Hill).
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Lisa Weinert on the Power of Narrative Healing
Lisa Weinert is the author and creator of Narrative Healing: Awaken the Power of Your Story (Hachette Go!). She has taught and lectured on the power of storytelling at institutions such as Wesleyan University, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and Fortune 500 media companies.
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Tricia Montalvo Timm on Board Seats, Investing, and Wearing Many Hats
Tricia Montalvo Timm is a first-generation Latina board director, venture investor and speaker. She is on a mission to inspire anyone who has ever felt like an “other” in the workplace to embrace their true selves, own their identity and achieve success and fulfillment in their life and career
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Stephanie King, CEO and President of Kitchen & Market, on Giving the Customer What They Need
Stephanie King, CEO and president of Kitchen & Market, exemplifies what happens when you follow a hunch and pursue your passion. King created her dream grocery store after a career spent in private-label grocery building programs for national retailers, where days were long and “what’s for dinner?” was a dreaded question–and typically, an afterthought.
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Anjarae (Washington) Hamilton, Head of Retailer Sales at Faire, On Small Business Trends
Anjarae Hamilton is the Head of Retailer Sales and Account Management at Faire, where her team transforms the retail landscape by helping over 100,000 brands sell millions of products to hundreds of thousands. Faire’s data-driven approach to wholesale lets retailers try-before-they buy, and straightforward financial terms eliminate inventory risk and provide access to capital—leveling the playing field in two key areas that previously prevented many small businesses from successfully competing against major retailers and e-commerce giants. With the help of Anjaree’s leadership, Faire has facilitated over 7M new connections between independent retailers and brands on the marketplace.
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Stacie Henderson Capece Minutolo, CMO of the Americas at Tod's, on the Future of Luxury
Stacie Henderson Capece Minutolo has spent over 15 years working for global luxury fashion brands such as Versace, Ferragamo, and Tod’s Group. Her expertise includes Marketing, E-commerce, and Digital. Stacie introduces technology to retail and global brands while developing dynamic growth activities that blend online and offline strategies. As an early digital adopter, she oversaw the launch of Versace’s e-commerce business in the US and initiated global digital initiatives such as social media, influencer programs, and live streaming for the brand.
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Karen Robinovitz, CEO of the Sloomoo Institute, On Being Fearless
Karen Robinovitz is a media veteran who launched Digital Brand Architects (DBA) the first talent management agency for digital influencers. Largely credited for creating the social media influencer market, Karen has been listed as one of 80 Women of Power by Variety and Forbes has called her one of the best-branded women in social media. Before DBA, she created social media strategies for brands such as Tiffany & Co., Tory Burch, Coach, and Estée Lauder Companies. She spent a decade as an accomplished journalist, contributing to the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Marie Claire amongst others, and was on-air talent on VH-1, E!, MTV and more. She has authored three books, all of which went into over seven printings.
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Bethann Hardison, American Model and Activist, On Going After What You Want
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Lesley Pinckney on The 2nd Annual State Of The Industry: AI Tech Trends 2024
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One Powerful Strategy For Prioritization
When everything on your plate feels pressing, urgent and valuable, how do you prioritize and decide on where to put time and resources. Or in other words, how do we choose between a good thing and another good thing. One potential solution is establishing 'even over statements'.
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How To Give Good Advice
The success of the WIE Suite community is anchored in the value and quality of advice and support our members give one another. But not all advice is created equal or received as such. According to the NY Times' Anna Goldfarb, 'Advice is a gift, albeit one bundled with inherent power dynamics.
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Managing The Ego Through Mindfulness
In our most natural state humans are ego-driven and emotional beings. Historically, our egos have been tasked with ensuring our survival by helping us to hunt and avoid being hunted. Egos are the unconscious part of our brains that control our body’s vital functions such as breathing, temperature and balance.
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Who is Sara Little Turnball? An Icon.
In an interview with fashion designer Alexa Adams, we learned that Sara Little Turnball was her inspiration. But, no one I spoke with had ever heard of Turnball. After a really deep dive in a rabbit hole of Sarah Little Turnball articles, I can unequivocally say she's a 'must-know' icon.
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The Last Publishable Day? Complicity in Ageism.
In lieu of Ambien (or melatonin, weed gummies, meditation or counting sheep backwards) I, like everyone else in our over-connected world, have come to rely on the comforting company of podcasts during long sleepless nights. A line up of reassuring voices that speak steadily and smartly about topics I’m interested in: current events, best practices, business, and books. I avoid wellness like the plague. So yes to Kara Swisher, but no to Goop. One in my regular rotation has a defined target audience of women over 40. It’s the actualized version of the podcast that everyone thinks they can start with their best friend, …where we just talk, like we’re at our kitchen table hanging out.
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Lincoln Centers Chief Artistic Officer Shanta Thake Is Sharing Her Brain (Waves) With the World
Shanta Thake is the Ehrenkranz Chief Artistic Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she spearheads all artistic and programming activities. Since her start in the Fall of 2021, Shanta has been key to Lincoln Center's ongoing efforts to ensure the arts are central to the civic life of the city—welcoming new audiences, championing genres historically underrepresented on campus, and ushering in accessible ticket models to break down cost barriers.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Changing the World: Running for Office
Election season is just around the corner and the political scene in the United States is shifting. In 2018, a record number of millennials signed up to run for office and political action committees like Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress supercharged a movement to encourage new (and often young), “everyday” candidates for public office. Notable success stories of these organizations’ support include AOC, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush.
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A Buzzword-Free Explanation of the Metaverse Web3 and the Future of Tech
Have you nodded along as the metaverse has been “explained” with a cacophony of buzzwords and vocabulary that - if you understood them - would render the explanation unnecessary? Whether you feel like you vaguely “get it,” or are acutely aware you’re faking understanding as terms like NFT, crypto, Web3, and blockchain are thrown around, we’ve got you covered.
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Daniella Ballou-Aares Makes the Case for Business Leaders to Protect Democracy
Daniella Ballou-Aares is the Founder and CEO of the Leadership Now Project, a national membership organization of business and thought-leaders committed to fixing American democracy. Daniella began her career at Bain & Company, working across the firm’s offices in the US, South Africa and the UK.
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An Idea You May Have Never Heard of: Lawfare and more with Jill Goldenziel
Jill Goldenziel advises global leaders on law, leadership, international security, and human rights. She has presented her groundbreaking research at the United Nations and the Pentagon, at TEDx, and for audiences around the world. She is a Forbes.com columnist on Defense and National Security.Dr. Goldenziel speaks and consults on International and Constitutional Law, International Security, Geopolitical Risk, Leadership, Business and Human Rights, Migration, and Disinformation
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Charity Elder On Black Women and Dopeness.
Charity C. Elder is an award-winning journalist, media executive, and digital strategist with twenty-plus years working and leading in broadcast and digital newsrooms. An instructor at Fordham University’s Department of Communication and Media Studies, Elder published her first book, Power: The Rise Of Black Women in America (Skyhorse/Simon & Schuster) in October 2022.
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Alison Mariella Désir Wants to Run With You
Alison Mariella Desir is multi-talented: a founder, a doer, an activist, a connector, and an unapologetically straightforward communicator with a passion for community health. Alison came to running organically, following a period of depression, when a Black friend and role model trained for and completed a marathon.
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Kate Ryder of Maven Clinic Advocates for Curiosity and Real Knowledge
Kate Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health. Maven offers virtual care and services across fertility, maternity, pediatrics, and menopause, and operates the largest women's and family health telehealth network globally.
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Masterclass: India Martin on the Art of Influence
India Martin is a 25-year veteran of financial services and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. She has held global C-Suite roles including expatriate assignments in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. In her final role at JPMorgan, India was Managing Director & Global Chief Operating Officer for Investment Banking Technology and Operations where she had operational responsibility for 15,000 staff in more than 40 global locations.
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Networking IV: Are Women’s Networks Valuable?
Today, we’re going a step further and in considering the value of women’s networks, specifically. Women’s networks provide unique opportunities to connect with other women with similar goals across various industries and catalyze our ability to share learnings, expertise, and insights.
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Transform Your Team with Rituals at Work
Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist and coach with 25 years of hands-on experience and two Wall Street Journal bestselling books, with a third (Retention Revolution) coming this Fall. Her first book, Bring Your Human to Work, was followed by Rituals Roadmap.
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What We'd Really Like for a Mother's Day Gift? Policy that Benefits Moms.
The handmade cards are sweet. The chocolates are nice. The jewelry certainly is beautiful. But, what we would really love this Mother's Day is policy that puts moms first.
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Ryan Viktorian and Lorna Kapusta With Advice on How to Make Your Money Work As Hard As You Do
Ryan Viktorian is a Vice President, Financial Consultant at Fidelity Investments. Lorna Kapusta is driven to help women become more actively involved and confident in their finances at every stage of life – a mission that became deeply personal after conquering her own financial stressors, getting more engaged and finding confidence in her family’s financial goals and picture overall.
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CEO Jean Smart on Being the First and Only
Jean Smart is the Founder and CEO of Penelope, a fintech company disrupting retirement solutions for small and micro businesses. Prior to her startup career, Jean was Managing Director and Head of Business Strategy at UBS. Jean has extensive experience as an accomplished global executive, and successfully develops and manages thriving marketing teams and business organizations.
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Carleton English of Barron's on Navigating the Turbulent Financial Market
Carleton English, joined the WIE Suite to discuss navigation the current troubles within our financial markets. Here's a snapshot of the lessons she shared.
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Yolanda Lyle, Chief of Staff to the Chairman and CEO at Pfizer, On Aiming Higher
Yolanda Lyle is an accomplished attorney with nearly 20 years of experience providing counsel to pharmaceutical companies. She is currently Vice President of Executive Operations and Chief of Staff to Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc. In this role, she serves as a strategic advisor and thought leader to the CEO, and is responsible for driving communication, collaboration and alignment across all Executive operations.
The WIE Suite at Cannes 2024 - A Week of Events Promoting and Championing Women
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CAREER
In Focus: Four Ways Leaders Can Combat Pandemic Fatigue + Rethink Moving Forward
As we pass the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 quarantine lock-downs and the continuing challenges, especially at the intersection of women and business, good compassionate, forward thinking leadership matters more than ever.
CAREER
Fostering Team Effectiveness In Todays Virtual Workplace with Dr. Esther Sackett
How do you manage teams and create cohesion? How do you navigate productivity and emotions and all the nuances, especially in today’s virtual work landscape? Dr. Esther Sackett has some answers.
CAREER
7 Steps To Mastering Difficult Conversations
Chrisa Zindros Boyce is the Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Executive Coach at the Handel Group, a renowned executive life coaching company. Her work helps support growing companies and industry conglomerates to design cultures and structures that lead to increased employee retention, engagement and profitability.
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Ready for a Pandemic Career Pivot? 6 Reasons Why Now Is a Good Time + How to Prepare
Women's careers rarely follow along a narrow, pre-determined path, but often veer off on different trajectories, including for some, time OOO to raise and take care of families. Now that the pandemic has upended all that was normal and perhaps even cost you your job, is it time to consider getting a new one, or even switching careers? Because most businesses are undergoing radical change, now could be opportune.
CAREER
What Bad Career Advice Should You Ignore?
No matter what stage they're at in their careers, women continue to be bombarded with well intentioned but overused advice about how to make it in business.
CAREER
6 Steps To Getting The Right Stuff Done
What does it really mean to be productive and what is the difference between being busy and actually producing desired results?Lisa Skeete Tatum is the founder and CEO of LandIt, a personalized career pathing platform designed to increase the success and engagement of women and diverse groups in the workplace.
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How I Dealt with Career Risk: A WIE Suite Women Roundup
With risk comes reward but also the potential for failure. When we take on an entrepreneurial role or ascend to corporate positions with greater responsibility, they often go hand-in-hand .
CAREER
Lisa Skeete Tatum On How Every Job Prepared Her For Her Dream Role
Lisa Skeete Tatum has had many career highlights: she broke into the world of venture capitalism and became a general in two years; she serves on boards in a variety of industries; and started Landit a company that unlocks the talent and brings to fruition the dreams of others.
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How Underfulfilled Overachievers Can Find Career Satisfaction
Megan Hellerer is the founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers and the author of the forthcoming book, Directional Living: The Underfulfilled Overachiever’s Path to Fulfillment in Work and Life (2022).
CAREER
What It Means To Truly Belong In The Workplace
Daisy Auger Dominguez is Chief People Officer at Vice Media Group. She has also designed and executed organizational transformations at the likes of Moody’s Investors Service, Disney, and Google.
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Making the Most of Focused Hours
Despite 8 hour workdays being the norm, studies show that the average person only focuses for four to five hours throughout the day. According to behavioral neurologist Borna Bonakdarpour, most people get by because even though we are mentally fatigued, most jobs do not require 100% focus for the entire workday.
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Unlocking Your Creative Brain
Artists are not the only stewards of creativity. Leaders exercise it regularly to solve challenging problems, develop new technology, and find better ways to communicate. The old explanation of “right-brain thinkers” versus “left-brain thinkers” has been debunked as an oversimplified view of the relationship between the brain and creativity.
CAREER
Resisting Collaboration Overload
There are many benefits to working from home, but one downside has been what Harvard Business Review refers to as collaboration overload and there are two main culprits.
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Maybe It's Not About You
How many situations have we been in where we felt hurt, neglected, or offended by another person? During those moments of what seems like betrayal, it often boils down to ego.
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The New Way To Work Is About Outcomes Not Hours
We've all heard about (and most likely discussed) how the work model has changed with the pandemic and what it will look like going forward.
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Managing the Micromanager
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Kisha Imani Cameron On Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Kisha Imani Cameron has walked the walk as an accomplished content producer, studio executive, champion of talent, and most recently, an accredited professional executive coach.
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How To Learn New Things Quickly
Researching via the internet has become the default method for expanding our knowledge and exploring new areas of interest. However there's a wealth of unexplored knowledge right at our fingertips and it sits within our networks.Eilon Reshef, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Gong has created a 5-step personal growth tool called the Spiral Method that utilizes informational conversations with people in and adjacent to our networks, to help facilitate excellent depth of learning and allowing anyone to become an expert in any subject at a rapid pace.
CAREER
Why You Should Budget For Breaks In Your Career
Thanks to modern medicine, people are living longer than ever though while it is wonderful to have more time to watch your family grow, it also means being in the workforce longer. At least a 50-year career is wholly plausible. That’s a long time.
CAREER
Optimize ‘Work From Home’ At The Office
Set up a specific, separate place to do your work at home.' This is the advice many were given when we first started working remotely. It stems from the idea of replicating the one desk, one person model most offices implement.
CAREER
Goal Setting For The New Year
Every year we debate the value of setting New Year's Resolutions but time management coach, Elizabeth Grace Saunders, believes they’re very much worth your time, even in the midst of uncertainty.
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Revlon CEO Debbie Perelman On Seizing Opportunities
Debbie Perelman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Revlon and a member of its Board of Directors. Debbie is breaking paradigms to compete in today's digital and consumer-first environment.
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Karen Kosiba Edwards On Joining A Corporate Board
Karen Edwards has 30 years of experience consulting with boards, CEOs and government on a range of strategic matters. She draws on her experience serving as a public company director and as a C-level executive to help clients build diverse, high-performing leadership teams and boards of directors.
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Building A Strong Foundation For Your Board Of Directors
As a founder running a busy company and what feels like a million responsibilities, you might be forgiven for seeing board meetings as a distraction. Pete Flint, a General Partner at venture firm NFX, believes that’s only the case when they’re not well managed and focused. There’s actually huge value to be found in board meetings if you run a tight process.
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The Future Of Work
Kweilin Ellingrud is a Senior Partner and the leader of the life insurance practice in North America at McKinsey & Company. She has broad experience designing and implementing global performance transformations.
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Equity In The Office: A World You Can Shape
What is our role as leaders within companies to ensure that our worlds are places of inclusion? First, we should understand that our organizations are microcosms of society, affording leaders control over cultural norms, procedural rules and levels of incentives and investments.
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Enhancing Employee Well-Being
Rachel Hodgdon is President and CEO of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public benefit corporation with a mission to improve human health and well-being through people-first places.
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Removing The Chains Of Objectification
In Karl Marx's essay 'Estranged Labor,' he described capitalism as a machine that made people deeply unhappy because it removed the personality from the person and reduced them to what they were able to produce.
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No Discomfort No Growth
“No discomfort, no growth” is a mindful approach to the popular expression “no pain, no gain.” Author and professor of behavioral science and marketing, Ayelet Fishbach, came to that conclusion after taking a class at The Second City, Chicago’s famous improvisational club.
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The Art Of Curating The Best Talent
Tyler Cowen is an American columnist, economist, and professor with a global reputation for spotting and nurturing incredible talent who go on to attract international recognition for their work and achievements. For anyone in the business of building and managing organizations, it's worth studying Cowen's ability to discover and enable the most talented people before anyone else notices them.
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Eve Rodsky on Creating A Level Playing Field So You Can Reclaim What Is Yours
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STARTUP
Karen Cahn Struggled with Raising Capital So She Pivoted to Help Other Women Get What They Deserved
Karen Cahn, a veteran of Google and YouTube, has had a career of ups--being a Google Intrapreneur for 10 years and launching the branded entertainment portion of YouTube (her team was the first to connect brands with content creators--ie what we call native video advertising today), and downs--getting fired for making too much money (yes, you read that correctly), and, launching a company post Google that was a bust.
STARTUP
From Bootstrapping To Multimillion-Dollar Business the trajectory of Carol’s Daughter
This week for our Masterclass Moment we are going to discuss the trajectory of Carol’s Daughter. Founder, Lisa Price’s story is a shining example of building at one’s own pace.
STARTUP
First Black Unicorn Founder Julia Collins Shares Fundraising Secrets
Julia Collins is a serial entrepreneur who has spent her career building food companies. In 2015 she co-founded Zume Pizza, and became the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn company.
STARTUP
Melanie Goldey and Jemma Wolfe On Planning The Perfect Exit Strategy
Melanie Goldey is the COO & CFO at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. She was previously CFO at Refinery 29, where she was instrumental in the company’s merger with VICE Media Group.
STARTUP
Meena Harris on Linking Entrepreneurship and Activism
Meena Harris is an American lawyer, children's book author, producer, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, a company that creates statement fashion to support charitable causes.
STARTUP
Marina Khidekel founder of Hugimals on How to Launch A Company.
Marina Khidekel is the founder of Hugimals, a TIME Best Inventions- winning line of weighted stuffed animals for kids & adults that 'hug you back' to ease anxiety, which has been recognized in Goop, People, NBC News, Real Simple, and many more.
STARTUP
How to Build an Inclusive Brand on Social Media Insights from Rakia Reynolds
One of the most sought-after minds in strategic communications, Rakia Reynolds is a thought leader, tastemaker, and branding expert who advises name brands on creative strategy.
STARTUP
Anne Fulenwider Demystifies Menopause
Anne Fulenwider is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alloy Women’s Health. She is a former magazine editor and a believer in the power of storytelling. She began her career at the literary magazine The Paris Review, spent ten years at Vanity Fair editing such writers as Carl Bernstein and Dominick Dunne, and in 2009, was named editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, overseeing all content and brand extensions in the United States.
STARTUP
Marianna Sachse On Circular Clothing
Marianna Sachse is the founder and CEO of Jackalo—America’s first circular children’s clothing brand. Jackalo makes long-lasting essentials for little change-makers. Prior to launching Jackalo, Marianna spent over a decade advising national and global foundations and nonprofits on communications to support health and environmental change. She is a mother of two active kids, a dog lover, and a cancer survivor.
STARTUP
How to Value a Startup from VC Joy Marcus
Joy is currently co-founder and Managing Director of Brilliant Friends Investing, an early stage venture group that invests in women-led, tech enabled businesses. She is a Lecturer at Princeton University, where she teaches the foundational entrepreneurship classes and also serves as a Venture Fellow at JVP, a large venture capital firm. Previously Joy was Executive Vice President and General Manager Digital Video at Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE), a subsidiary of Conde Nast, the publishing giant whose properties include Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
STARTUP
Chef and Entrepreneur Jing Gao Offers Advice for Founders
Jing Gao is a chef, entrepreneur, and renowned expert on Chinese cuisine, and she’s on a mission to bring uncensored Chinese flavors to the global table. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan.
STARTUP
Entrepreneur Sarah Anyieth of Nhair Chocolates Shares Tips for Those Scaling A Side Hustle
Sarah has over 15 years of experience in accounting and financial leadership roles including leading large-scale transformations programs, adoptions of new accounting pronouncements, and targeted close acceleration/cycle reduction projects focused on the record-to-report process.
STARTUP
Christina Stembel CEO of Farmgirl Flowers On Bootstrapping Your Way to Success
Christina Stembel is the CEO of Farmgirl Flowers, Inc., the only large-scale, female-founded (and 80% female run!), direct to consumer e-commerce floral delivery company in the US.
STARTUP
Stephanie Nadi Olson on the Toll of Founding a Company on Her Health and More
Stephanie Nadi Olson is an innovator and disruptor, aiming to change the world's perspective on the future of work and what it means to be inclusive in the workplace. Olson, a former advertising executive, founded We Are Rosie in 2018, before the pandemic made remote and flexible work mainstream.
STARTUP
Aishwarya Iyer Founder and CEO of Brightland on Starting Small and Scaling
Aishwarya Iyer attended New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she graduated with a degree in Media and Globalization with an emphasis on South Asian Gender Studies. Following graduation, Aishwarya spent many years working for various startup and tech firms in New York while indulging in the diverse culture of the city during her evenings and weekends.
STARTUP
Chloe Harrouche CEO of The Lanby Shares Tips on Fundraising
Chloe Harrouche is a Co-Founder of The Lanby, a wellness-forward primary care members club.
STARTUP
Rachel Johnson on How to Set Up Your Company for a Successful Acquisition
Rachel Johnson is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of J&O Law, a firm focused on representing high-growth companies as they scale. Since founding J&O in 2014 with her Co-Founder, Christina Oshan, the firm has grown to a team of 20 with offices in both New York City and South Florida.
STARTUP
Cindy Gallop On Why Women Need To Make A Ton Of Money
Cindy Gallop is an advertising veteran, equality rights activist, and the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.
Rachel Kourakos on Transformation for Leadership Growth
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LEADERSHIP
Stop Asking And Start Doing. 10 Ways To Be An Active Ally In The Workplace To Black Women
Wie Suite Founder Dee Poku shares a powerful message for what companies can and must do to support black women in the workplace.
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Investing - 0 to 100 Million: How to Get Invited to the Table, or Build Your Own
Ashley Flukes and Nneka Ukpai are making waves, moving needles, and shifting narratives by leveraging the power of community and collective investment.
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Decoding AI: Translating Today’s Insights into Tomorrow’s Innovations with Moody's Paras Qureshi
Updated learning on generative AI, AI and the use cases in your business.
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Why Equal Pay Really Matters: The Stats You Need to Know
The data on equal pay for women is appalling.
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My Reputation Doesn’t Matter . . .  Said No One Ever ... An Excerpt from Marketing Guru Aliza Licht's Book On Brand
On the release of Aliza Licht's book On Brand in paperback, we share an excerpt on how to think about the development of your own brand.
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Stop Asking And Start Doing. 10 Ways To Be An Active Ally In The Workplace To Black Women
The WIE Suite founder, Dee Poku, shares leadership advice for allies.
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Denise Hamilton on How to Forge Our Differences Into a Stronger Future
Denise Hamilton is a nationally recognized workplace culture and DEI expert.
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A Letter From Our Founder
The WIE Suite founder, Dee Poku on why every woman should learn to trust her instincts.
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Karena Kilcoyne on How to Rise Above Your Story
Karena Kilcoyne is a former trial lawyer who specialized in criminal defense, including complex white-collar and civil litigation in federal and state courts. Later in her practice, she worked as in-house counsel for a publicly traded worldwide manufacturing company.
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Laurie Ruettimann on Self-Leadership
Laurie has spent over two decades revolutionizing the world of work through her candid storytelling, innovative solutions, and passion for driving better employment experiences.
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Succession Planning: What to Do When the CEO Wants to Step Down
While it’s crystal clear that a successful transition to a new CEO is key to a corporation’s success, history tells us that even with the best of intentions and efforts on the part of a Board of Directors—who are collectively responsible for managing that succession—it’s not always a slam dunk.
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The WIE Suite Dinner Series Tackles Culture, Workplace and Community. Expands to More Cities.
Our Fall Table For Eight dinner series added Washington DC and Chicago to an already expansive list of host cities.
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Chiara de Rege Recommends These Holiday Must Haves
This holiday, the WIE Suite asked tastemaker members for their holiday shopping must-haves.
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When boards and search firms look at candidates for board seats, do they value board service courses and certificates?
The jury is out. Depending on your experience a board course or certification may help you but it's also possible that you don't need one.
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Understanding The Benefits of Nonprofit vs Corporate Board Positions: Do You Have What it Takes to Land a Board Seat?
Getting a spot on a board of directors—especially a major for-profit company—has long been considered as mark of success and acumen, an emblem of power within the business community, a way of amplifying your achievements, a route to cementing old contacts and establishing new ones, and, of course, another way of making money.
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Mona Patel on Sita's Story, Obligation, Duty and Choice
Mona Patel is an expert in helping people reframe the way they think by understanding and empathizing with other people’s points of view. For over 23 years, Mona's worked with brands like Nike, Facebook, Capital One, First Republic Bank and Pfizer. She teaches organizations how to listen for what people really want. She has started and built a series of 7-figure companies, is a published author, award winning researcher, and keynote speaker. Her latest company, Gray Zones, produces online immersive experiences to inspire leaders to have more empathy, awareness and understanding for different points of view.
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Alexis Grant, Founder of The Got Acquired, on Preparing Your Business for Sale
Alexis Grant is founder of They Got Acquired, a media company that features acquisitions of online businesses and the founders behind them. Previously, she was EVP of The Penny Hoarder, a personal finance media brand that acqui-hired her content marketing agency. She also founded The Write Life, an online community for writers she sold in 2021.
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How can I leverage a nonprofit board seat to get a corporate one?
Leveraging a nonprofit board seat to secure a corporate board seat can be a strategic career move. Nonprofit board experience can provide valuable skills and networking opportunities that make you a more attractive candidate for corporate board positions. Here's how to go about it.
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What's a typical length of board service?
And, what decision criteria would you think about using when you're considering leaving a board?
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Thasunda Brown Duckett On Taking Business Risks And Being a Leader for Our Times
Thasunda Brown Duckett, the former CEO of JP Morgan Chase consumer banking, who led a network of 40,000 employees and 4900 branches, was recently named the CEO of TIAA, becoming the second Black woman currently leading a Fortune 500 company.
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Corporate Boards: How to Join One And Ensure Board Diversity With BETs Former CEO Debra Lee
Debra Lee spent 13 years as the chairman and CEO of BET Networks, has more than 20 years of board service across seven different public boards, and currently serves on boards of AT&T, Burberry, Marriott, and Procter and Gamble.
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Girls Who Code Founder Reshma Saujani on Fighting for Mothers Rights And Taking Risks
The Girl's Who Code founder who worked to bring girls to the forefront of STEM, has stepped back from the day-to-day running of the company she created, to focus her energy on helping one of the hardest hit demographics of the pandemic, stay-at-home mothers, with her Marshall Plan for Moms.
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Designer Rebecca Minkoff On Why She Stopped Micro-Managing And The Key to Longevity in Business
Rebecca Minkoff has a lucrative accessories and clothing business, a podcast--Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff, a network--the Female Founder Collective, that supports women owned businesses, and in her spare time, has written her first book, Fearless: The New Rule for Unlocking Creativity, Courage and Success, which comes out this summer.
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Deirdre Findlay Conde Nasts CMO On Growing Your Audience And Finding New Revenue Streams"
Deirdre Findlay is the global CMO and Chief Revenue at Conde Nast, where she oversees all consumer marketing efforts and is focused on driving consumer revenue, brand development, audience insights and growth, digital strategy, and increasing subscriptions and memberships.
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Bon Appetits Dawn Davis On Nurturing Creativity And Going With Your Gut
Dawn Davis, the new Editor-in-Chief at Conde Nast's Bon Appetit, was most recently at Simon & Schuster, where she founded boutique imprint 37Ink. Her successes have included The Butler, by Wil Haygood, made into a movie by Lee Daniels, and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl​, by Issa Rae.
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A Primer To Building Personal Wealth
Many of us mean to get more financially savvy, but put it off for various reasons - the concept is overwhelming, someone else in the family has been handling ( eg a partner), or it just feels too late in the game to dive in.
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Bobbi Brown Cleans Up + Gets Back to Beauty
You might think that if you'd built a game-changing business into large global brand and successfully sold it to a powerful conglomerate, you'd sit back, put your feet up and bask in your success, rather than launch a parallel business in a now saturated market-place with a smaller team.
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Pushing Beauty Boundaries: Unilevers Esi Eggleston Bracey"
Renowned executive, Esi Eggleston Bracey has spent her the bulk of her career in the beauty industry, first at Procter & Gamble where she became the Senior Vice President & General Manager Global Cosmetics, then at Coty as the President of Consumer Beauty and now at Unilever, where she is currently the EVP + COO North America for Beauty and Personal Care, and it is no surprise her contributions to the industry have had profound impact.
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Master The Art of Negotiating
Author and award-winning educator Mori Taheripour teaches negotiation and dispute resolution at the Wharton Schoo and is a six time recipient of awards for excellence in teaching.
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Skoll Foundations New President Marla Blow Wants To Change The World
Martha Blow has always put social impact front-and-center in her work, both as a corporate executive - as SVP of Social Impact at MasterCard, and as the founder of FS Card--a credit card venture designed to make traditional credit available to underserved consumers.
Masterclass
Lesley Pinckney on The 2nd Annual State Of The Industry: AI Tech Trends 2024
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MARKETING
Christine Choi, Partner at M13, on Brand Communications and Generating Impact
A partner and head of brand/communications for M13, Christine Choi worked with Sir Richard Branson to launch Virgin Group’s North American portfolio and was the first head of communications for Virgin Galactic/Virgin Orbit/The Spaceship Company. She serves on the boards of KIPP NJ and Virgin Unite US.
Nona Hendryx's New Performance Piece at Lincoln Center Shows Emerging Tech in An Afro Futurist Context
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