Posted on 12 April 2012. Tags: Business, Career Management, Events, Supporting women worldwide
TiE Sydney’s annual Women Entrepreneurs’ Pitching Competition on May 1, 2012 is on again with a fantastic prize to Silicon Valley to attend TiEcon on May 18-20, 2012. TiEcon was named among ’10 Best Conferences for Ideas and Entrepreneurship’ by Worth …
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Posted on 04 April 2012. Tags: Business, Gender Balance, Women on boards
Since I wrote in February about the Facebook IPO and complete lack of women on the Facebook board, it seems a lot of others have been standing up and demanding to be heard on the same issue. Women, after all, make up the majority of Facebook users and …
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Posted on 01 March 2012. Tags: Awards, Business, Community
Two years ago my business sphinxx was a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards and it was an experience that I’ll always remember. The process of being involved with an elite group of business operators; the reflection on my own business and its…
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Posted on 25 November 2009. Tags: Business, Career Management, Entrepreneurial Activities, working women
As a market, women represent a bigger opportunity than China and India combined. So why are companies doing such a poor job of serving them? Women now drive the world economy. Globally, they control about $20 trillion in annual consumer spending, and that figure could climb as high as $28 trillion in the next five years. […]
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Posted on 30 October 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Business, Career Management, Women in Leadership, working women
I was collating some research the other day and again reviewed the article, How Star Women Build Portable Skills which is always a good read as it shows that star performers often falter when they move to new companies, but not women. While this article focuses on analysts, I thought you may find some similarities […]
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Posted on 19 October 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Business, Career Management
Rosemary Gillespie from Proof Communications has sent us this fabulous e-book, entitled What I Wish I Knew When I Started. While this book contains great insights for those looking to start their own business, it also has some great principles which can be applied to any role such as the importance in prioritising and managing […]
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