6 Lessons In Building A Successful Company From Nicci Levi By Megan Bruneau Nicci Levy has one of those stories that will inspire even the most discouraged entrepreneur: In middle school, she tried out for every team and didn’t make a single one. Unfazed, she joined the only team with no tryouts: cross country track. In her mid-thirties, with no…
Mia Ray Of Glam-Aholic Lifestyle Brand On 4 Ways To Exceed Sales Expectations By Pauleanna Reid “No paid influencers, no running ads, no viral moments. Just me … and you.” This note shared by Mia Ray to her Instagram followers in July illustrates the secret behind the Glam-Aholic Lifestyle brand’s unprecedented success. Armed with her love for fashion, her phone, and some…
WNBA Legend Sheryl Swoopes Is A Role Model With Her Non-Profit By Cheryl Robinson Equal gender pay in sports has been an ongoing saga since women started playing professionally. In May, the news of the U.S. Soccer Federation announcing that players for the men’s and women’s national teams would get equal compensation sparked hope for all female athletes. Although there…
3 Women From Delhi Start a Language Learning Institute By Sangmuan Hangsing Enchanté Institute of Foreign Languages (EIFL) is celebrating its first foundation day on Sunday. It is a language learning institute founded on August 21, 2021. EIFL was born out of a calling to make language learning more accessible and manageable for students in the northeast to forge ahead…
How Carly Bigi Is Using AI to Eliminate Fashion Waste Problems By Amanda Breen It’s mid-July, and the yacht on the Hudson is called Praying for Overtime — an apt name for the boat hosting the Laws of Motion event, where founder Carly Bigi and her crew’s passion for beautiful, perfect-fitting clothing bubbles up alongside the Aperol spritzes at the bar. Bigi herself wears a vibrant…
How Success Happened for Wendy Lund, CCO of Organon By Robert Tuchman From an early age, Wendy Lund’s entrepreneurial mindset was inspired by her father, a CFO of a major retail chain in New York, who taught her about the power of building something from the ground up. Her dad showed her that companies aren’t built by one person, but…
How Greenberg Fosters Psychological Safety By Pauleanna Reid With 220 million meetings conducted each year, there is no doubt that it is an essential forum for exchanging information, building relationships and enabling collaboration in business. However, as essential as meetings appear to be to our professional lives, not all of them are as productive, impactful or collaborative as we intend. While the…
The Women in Business Interview: Julia Wada “I love that many women are now focusing on paying it forward and lifting others.” By Brian Ashcraft Julia Wada, who retired in April 2022 after over three decades at the auto giant, joined Toyota Motor Sales right out of graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked her way up…
This Founder Developed A Device To Tackle Surface Germs Amid Covid By Monica Haider What started as grief over a friend’s staph infection that rapidly led to an emergency room visit and the friend’s untimely death turned into brainstorming and a new perspective on germs, healthcare and innovation by Debra Vanderhoff. The infection that gripped Vanderhoff’s friend had taken her…
Karren Brady on Taking Up a Side Hustle By Karren Brady Apprentice star and West Ham United vice-chair Karren Brady answers your career questions and meets an inspirational CEO. Here she gives a reader advice on how to take up a side hustle in tutoring. Q) I’m a teacher and recently a friend asked if I could tutor her son…
