Message from the Founder: Happy Holidays

By Nicki Gilmour, Founder and CEO of The Glass Hammer

As 2010 draws to a close, I want to thank all the supporters and readers of theglasshammer.com. We are continuing to enjoy our journey of informing, inspiring, and empowering our readers through news, advice, and profiles on amazing professional women. We have been thrilled with the feedback from you, the women we do this for, at both our career management events and our business networking events.

In fact, we have an amazing events lineup for 2011, including more events for women in fund management and for women in technology. We also have some new events to help you to stay up to date on the latest career management strategies – including how to get the most from your mentor and sponsor relationships.

There have been so many excellent seminars that we have attended and covered on the site. One of the most encouraging topics to gain popularity this year is that of compensation transparency – that we can start to measure progress by benchmarking pay, promotion, and advancement rates. This excellent dialogue is possible due to progressive companies hosting useful events for women, and implementing their own benchmarking initiatives. A large thank you must go to great research and on-going work by organizations like Catalyst, McKinsey, the Center of Work Life Policy, NCRW, Harvard Business Review, the White House Project, the Forte Foundation, 20-First, and many others.

If you have some down time over the holidays, I hope you enjoy reading some of the great articles written by our editor Melissa Anderson or any of the top notch contributors who are women in the trenches themselves. My final Op-Ed of the year is optimistic about what 2011 will bring, as firms now compete again in the war for talent post recession.

Finally, I want to tell you about new site, www.evolvedemployer.com, which will be launching on January 6. I invite you to have a sneak peak now at the content we have been preparing this year. The site is a great way for you to know more about the most attractive and progressive employers out there. Before you join a company shouldn’t you know more about their culture and policies? The new site enables employers to communicate more about what they are up to in areas such CSR, diversity, work/life balance programs, innovation, and more.

Happy Holidays, and here is to a prosperous New Year.

Yours sincerely,
Nicki Gilmour
CEO and Founder