Women Build Wealth: Why, How, and Now Panel

True confession — I went through most of my career without thinking about why and how I should be building wealth for my own life and my children. I was just glad to have work I felt passionate about and a paycheck (for which I didn’t know to negotiate!) deposited in my bank account. But now I’m at a stage of life where it would be really nice to have been more intentional about my finances.

Does this sound like you? Are you more astute than me and looking to grow your wealth, but not sure how? Are you unsure about your financial goals but want to learn from and be inspired by women who can provide the insights you need?

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Event, Networking with Purpose, Take The Lead EventsGloria FeldtAugust 19, 2023Power Up ConferenceComment

Power Up: Learn How To Create Harmony At Work & More At Conference

Who hasn’t had a work experience that incites tension and discomfort? And who doesn’t want to change that?

How you lead with a more positive culture is the centerpiece of one of several roundtables at the Power Up Conference & Concert, Lead Your Intention, on Women’s Equality Day in person and virtually August 26.

People First: Leading to Advance Science, Learning, Inclusion For Museums, Communities

Curiosity comes to Dr. Rabiah Mayas naturally.

The first-ever Chief Partnerships Officer at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (one of the largest in the world), says growing up in Silver Springs, MD her parents sent her to the library or the encyclopedia to find answers to her questions.

It's Time to Get Out of Your Own Way

Is your comfort zone holding you back?

Look, trust me, I know it can sometimes be hard to acknowledge that we’re the ones responsible for making progress (or lack thereof) in our lives, but the good news is we can unlearn that behavior in order to get out of our own way.

Pursue the Vision: Power Up Conference Chair Does What It Takes To Help Others Succeed

The irony is that her vision literally stopped her from pursuing her dream career.

But it is her lifetime as a visionary that enables entrepreneurs and leaders to never stop pursuing their dreams.

Be Unreasonable: Key Paths To Achieving Your Intentions in 2022

“Be unreasonable.”

Merriam Webster defines the adjective as “not governed by or acting according to reason,” or “exceeding the bounds of reason or moderation.”

For the highly successful and accomplished panelists at the recent Women inPower event through the 92 Street Y, practicing moderation and reason is not how they got to where they are.

Forging Solid Connections: CEO, Founder, Author on The Art of Connecting

Her mother would most definitely be proud.

Susan McPherson, founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, and author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships, has spent more than 33 years since her mother’s death building a successful career built on authenticity, integrity and clear communication.

Feel The Heat: Co-Founder, CEO Develops Tech Solution to Reopening

Seeing nurses and other frontline healthcare workers wearing trash bags to protect themselves during shifts at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic because of a shortage of PPE equipment made Amy Lu upset. It also made the engineer CEO and co-founder of Antlia Systems get to work on a solution for protection.

“It broke my heart,” says Lu, co-founder of Chicago-based Antlia Systems (named after the constellation). “So I used my connections to get more PPE and donate them. Then I was working hard to figure things out with engineering teams to find the best solutions to make safe places.”

Powerful women, you are a movement unto yourself.

Issue 137 — August 3, 2020

What do you think of when you think of a movement?

Picket signs? Pink hats? People marching and yelling? #BlackLivesMatter? Social justice perhaps?

It’s certainly true that we tend to think of movements as being about causes, because they often are causes that people feel strongly about.

Well what if the cause you feel strongly about is YOU?

Remote Possibility: 4 Tips For Preparing To WFH Forever

Millions across the country who kept their jobs or were not frontline essential workers at high risk have been working remotely since March. The transition to WFH for many has hit rough spots complicated with childcare and homeschooling and cramped spaces not set up for a 9 to 5 workday.

But it always felt as if it was temporary. That may not be the case.

While many offices are safely reopening in the coming weeks and months, with many workers and leaders facing fear and loathing about going back to the office, what if you face the forever fact of never returning to a workplace outside your home?

7 Tips for Networking Even in a Pandemic

Issue 133 — June 29, 2020

One thing COVID-19 has done is make life easier for introverts.

If you break out in a cold sweat at the thought of networking, in the sense of walking into a large room full of people you don’t know and trying to make connections that will be useful to you in your professional life, while balancing a beverage — it might seem in first blush that at least that worry is over.

But the reality is your network is your net worth.

Now Is Best Time To Network: Mom Project Gives $500K to Extend Jobs, Projects

“Now is one of the best times to network,” says Kayla Tekus, director of marketing at The Mom Project, a Chicago-based talent and coaching company focusing on career paths of women and mothers, with a community of over 250,000 professionals and more than 2,000 companies.

The latest news for the company founded in 2016 by CEO Allison Robinson, is that they are offering $500,000 in their Stronger Together Fund to small and medium sized businesses to retain female employees or hire new ones on contracts, with $1,000 to $5,000 grants. Thirty grants have been given so far.

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