Dr. Lilian Ajayi-Ore: Doctorate Degree News We are so pleased to announce the success of the Founder and CEO of the Global Connections for Women Foundation. Dr. Lilian Ajayi-Ore has completed her Doctor of Education Degree from the University of Pennsylvania with a Double Distinction. Through years of determination, perseverance and intellectual accomplishments, our Founder has the designated honor of…
Amid This Pandemic, Women CEOs Share That Leadership And Culture Matter Most Five CEOs convened April 22, 2020 to share their approaches to leading during crisis. One was Carly Fiorina who has led through deep recession, terrorist attacks, SARS and Ebola. Carly shared, “There’s an old saying that tough times build character. I think that is wrong … tough times…
The most well-publicized startups these days are in the technology sector. In fact, recent economic studies show that U.S.-based tech startups grew by 47 percent in the last decade. It’s no surprise, then, that plenty of hopeful founders have jumped on this train, but the reality is that the industry you choose to disrupt may not define your company’s ultimate success. Sophia Hutchins decided…
DL1961 has been changing the way denim is made to lessen the impact on the planet for future generations since 2008 with their patent fabric, XFIT LYCRA. The average pair of jeans using 1500 gallons of water while the average pair of DL1961 jeans uses less than 10 gallons. The brand also uses a vertically integrated, self-powered facility with botanic fibers,…
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) launched the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion in June 2017 with 175 CEOs signing on (the list included marquee companies such as Cisco, HP, Morgan Stanley and Walmart). A key tenet of the pledge is that CEOs must sign up and commit to diversity and follow up with additional activities and collaboration. Today, that number has expanded to more…
By Claire Zillman Things did not look right to Rep. Al Green (D‑Texas). It was April of this year, three hours into a grilling of the CEOs of seven of the largest U.S. banks before the House Financial Services Committee. The hearing was to focus on the accountability of the banks, 10 years after the financial crisis. But Green, an eight-term congressman…
New York City announced that they are teaming up with Goldman Sachs and other companies to offer female entrepreneurs more affordable lines of credit to grow their businesses. In a release, the city announced a new program called WE Credit that will help 250 women entrepreneurs access lines of credit, which will average $50,000 at below-market interest rates. The city hopes…
Of the CEOs who lead the companies that make up the 2018 Fortune 500 list, just 24 are women. That number is down 25 percent from last year’s record-breaking 32 female CEOs, the highest share of women since the Fortune’s first 500 list in 1955. While women were at the helm of 6.4 percent of the companies on 2017’s list, that number…
Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women know a thing or two about career success. The 50 businesswomen on the 2017 list have climbed up the ranks of corporates in a wide range of industries—including tech, energy, defense, and consumer goods—to C-level roles. Here’s the career advice they have for women who want to follow in their footsteps: 1. Be your authentic self Karen…
“The women on our list, “GC4W Top Female CEOs” are challenging the status quo and the role of women in the workplace, while inspiring the next generation to follow their footsteps in creating a world where women leaders are to be expected” ~ Lilian Ajayi-Ore, CEO and Founder, Global Connecions for Women Foundation. With a rather slow growth in the…
