Learn & Earn: Stay Tuned to Economics Trends, Forecasts to Succeed as Leaders and Entrepreneurs

You cannot escape the impact economics has on every aspect of your life. Understanding the rapid changes today in employment trends, tariffs, labor, opportunities, consumer needs, inflation, behavioral economics as well as the laws of supply and demand in the U.S. and globally will make you a better leader and wiser entrepreneur.

“Economics has something to say about whatever you are talking about,” says Professor Kim Holder, managing director of the Center for Economics Education at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Finance/Money, Gender ParityMichele WeldonFebruary 21, 2025Economics, Gender Parity, Womens Leadership, EquityComment

Ellevate Your Career: CEO Maricella Herrera on Defining Your Own Success

After earning her Masters in Business Administration at Columbia University in New York in 2012, following five years working in banking in Mexico, Maricella Herrera was interviewing for a new boutique banking job in Mexico, where she intended to return to live.

Make Change: How and Why Donors of Color Impact The World For Good

“If you can’t make change with the person who lives next door to you, how can you make change across continents?”

Isabelle Leighton, executive director of Donors of Color Network, says, “Most change starts local.”

Community Building, Finance/Money, Changing the Power Par...Michele WeldonSeptember 16, 2022Philanthropy, Community, Racial EquityComment

Credit Where Credit Is Due: Co-Founder Helps Employees Create Wealth

By the time Einat Steklov moved to the United States from Israel in 1996, she had already served in Israeli Defense Forces, graduated from Tel Aviv University Law School and worked in a corporate law firm.

But she couldn’t get a phone line because she needed a credit history in the U.S.

“I recall sitting there thinking I need a credit card. I made good money, my husband made good money and we could not establish credit,” says Steklov, founder and CEO of Kashable, a lending model offered through employers for employees to have easy access to credit.

Find Your Squad: How Founder, CEO Created Startup To Solve Parenting Needs

The third envelope in the class exercise at Goldman Sachs Small Business Program was the key.

Jennifer Beall Saxton, founder and CEO of Tot Squad, recalls the class exercise was to open three envelopes in succession. In the first envelope was a fake check for $50,000. The assignment was to figure out what as a start-up, you could do with that influx of cash. Saxton had plenty of ideas.

Make The Most of Digital Marketing: 4 Tips For Nonprofits To Excel

Nonprofit organizations have traditionally used fundraising events to help achieve their goals. However, it’s not enough to only have a handful of people supporting their cause.

That’s where digital marketing comes to play. Digital marketing is usually attributed to for-profit organizations. While this is the case, nonprofits also reap the same benefits it has for businesses.

Finance/Money, Leadership/Organizational, Media, Tools and TipsDan MartinDecember 22, 2021digital presence, Nonprofit, funding, Social MediaComment

How To Invest When You Feel Like You're Behind: 6 Ways To Save Now

There’s a Chinese proverb that says: “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best is today.” The same can be said of saving. The best time to start is 20 years ago —or even before you were born—the second best is today.

Today, almost everyone understands the importance of saving for the future — whether it’s retirement, a down payment on a house, or children’s education expenses. Unfortunately, just thinking about saving money doesn’t actually work. You have to start somewhere, but most people don’t know where the starting line is.

Give What You've Got: Helping Women By Donating Time, Resources, Energy

Very few women have the resources of Melinda Gates to commit billions to causes they believe in. But every woman can have a cause to believe in and commit to it. That commitment can include pooling together small donations for a larger impact, donating valuable time and services and volunteering time to be a board advisor, mentor or someone who gives her professional acumen and services to help the cause and organization for free.

Empathy Is The Best Route to Innovation: Entrepreneurship Director Offers Advice

If you suggest something to Abigail Ingram, she will follow through and do it. The director of The Women in Entrepreneurship Institute, at DePaul University in Chicago, since its launch in July 2018 heads the first comprehensive institute for women founders that integrates academic learning, research, incubation, funding and public policy.

Play Fair: Why Women’s Earnings Peak and Gender Pay Gap Matter

New research from PayScale shows that women’s lifetime earnings peak at an earlier age than do men’s, and the gap never improves, setting up a lifetime of playing catch up that never pans out.

Plan A: Why Women Need To Lead Their Financial Futures

The P word trips most women up concerning their finances, and it’s the word many fear: Plan. Beth Kljajic, a Chicago-based financial services professional with New York Life Insurance, says most women from Millennials to Baby Boomers are not prepared financially for the costs of retirement or healthcare later in life