Suneera Madhani Wants To Teach Women To Build Businesses With CEO School By Rebecca Suhrawardi Suneera Madhani and I are on a video interview. She’s coming off a couple of weeks of travel which included attending The White House’s Eid Dinner hosted by the President and Vice-President. We’re bonding over our choice of attire for the call–sweatshirts. Except hers is…
Teams Trying To Look Productive? Ask Them To Do This Instead By Lisa Bodell According to workplace analytics company Visier Inc., around 43% of workers admit to spending more than 10 hours a week trying to “look productive” instead of focusing their time on valuable tasks. Performative activities range from responding immediately to non-urgent emails; attending non-essential meetings; and conducting unnecessary research…
As Turkish Founder Gamze Cizreli Takes Her Company Public, Earthquake Relief Efforts Are Still Front Of Mind By Maggie McGrath In 2007, Turkish entrepreneur Gamze Cizreli was starting over from a divorce and in search of funding to start a new business. She’d run a successful cafe in Ankara in the 1990’s and was ready to build a bigger hospitality…
‘The Best Advice My Mother Gave Me,’ From 10 Top Female Entrepreneurs By MeiMei Fox “The most important thing parents can do is to believe in their child,” says Margot Machol Bisnow, author of Raising an Entrepreneur: 99 Stories from Families Who Did. “Parents tell me that of course they believe in their child. But actually, they don’t. They love them, they…
5 Strategies For Building Wealth As A Business Owner By Melissa Houston As a business owner, you have a unique opportunity to build wealth and secure your financial future. However, with so many competing priorities, figuring out where to begin can take time. Building wealth as a business owner requires a strategic approach and a commitment to action. Achieving financial…
How Brandefy Founder Meg Pryde Is Democratizing The Way We Shop Beauty By Gabby Shacknai Meg Pryde was fresh out of college and working in consumer packaged goods when she discovered something shocking: a single product would end up in two different containers with two different labels, one commanding a high $40 price tag and the other, a mere $10.…
Zarna Gard On Switching Careers, Storytelling, Strategy, And Success By Jia Wertz After being a stay-at-home mom for 16 years, all the while knowing she wanted to do more, Zarna Garg was pushed to try stand-up comedy by her children. Her daughter recognized that she had a real talent, one that she herself didn’t even consider. But with the encouragement…
Mother’s Day Gift Guide: The Best Travel Products For Frequent Fliers By Ramsey Qubein Finding the right gift for the important moms around you can be a challenge, especially if she travels frequently. There are, however, some clever and unusual options that can make her globetrotting more comfortable and convenient (both on the road and once she returns home). Here…
During The Great Breakup, Women Must Mentor Women In The Workplace By MeiMei Fox According to LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co’s 2022 Women in the Workplace report, there is still a major gender gap in corporate leadership positions. Only one in four people in C-suite positions are female. To make matters worse, women leaders are leaving their positions in increasing numbers, citing…
3 Must-Read Takeaways From a Conversation With Eventbrite Founder Julia Hartz The CEO of Eventbrite started working in television production before co-founding the event management platform in 2006. By ROBERT TUCHMAN This week on How Success Happens, I had the pleasure of speaking with Julia Hartz, the co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, a global online self-service ticketing platform listed on the New York…
