It all started with lunch and the question, “What do you need?”
Lauren Wesley Wilson was 25 and working at the junior level in a communications firm in Washington, D.C. in 2011 when she decided to launch a luncheon series. The goal was a grassroots effort to gather “open and honest” women of color in marketing and communications to help each other with whatever they needed.
Read More“Perfection is overrated.”
That is one of the truths Kelly McNelis, founder of Women For One, wants every woman on the planet to know and internalize. You can redefine power in your mess.
Read MoreMichelle Kennedy’s newest baby is just six months old. She calls her youngest baby “Peanut,” the same nickname for her three-year-old son, Finlay.
Read MoreSue Phillips can smell a winner.
Her own customized fragrance is “bold, feminine, floral with spicy Oriental and amber woodsiness; a floriental,” as she describes it.
Read MoreOn her high school basketball team playing in the position of forward, Janet Lynch learned the value of a pivot.
Read MoreHave you seen the new Wonder Woman movie? If so, you probably noticed the reference to suffragists. William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman’s creator, was inspired by the suffragists. So on this weekend leading up to the long July 4th weekend celebrating all that America aspires to be, let’s raise our glasses to celebrate the women who fought for our being part of that vision.
Read MoreEven with the addition of the latest Capitol Hill ping pong on paid parental leave policies during the recent Workforce Week,child care remains the single greatest concern for working mothers—and fathers.
Read More“No one really wants to grow up and be a banker.”
Catherine Tan discovered this after a decade in investment banking for firms such as Barclay’s and Morgan Stanley.
Read More“I speak into the listening.”
That is how Donna Smith Bellinger, author, coach, speaker, and business accelerator, succeeds in helping entrepreneurs—particularly women—increase their sales, networks and effectiveness.
Read MoreIt was yet another encounter of sexual harassment that gave Michelle Dewoskin the motivation to start her own company and helped her launch a new career.
Read MoreAs I headed out at 4:30 a.m. with my 13-year-old daughter, Zoe, recently for the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., I could not help but think about my grandmother, Sarah Dubow Sorenson.
Read MoreNovember 29, 2016
business, Career, food, Leadership, Michele Weldon
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Ricky Eisen, founder of Between The Bread, says her greatest leadership lesson is to delegate.
Simple is better than fussy. And teamwork is better than going it alone.
Those have been the mantras and core of the leadership ethic for nearly four decades of Ricky Eisen, founder of Between the Bread Hospitality Group, a New York-based food company with three stores and one catering location.
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