by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City) Ida Liu creates wealth management strategies for ultra high net worth individuals in her role as Head of the Fashion, Retail and Consumer Group at Citi Private Bank. From high finance to high fashion and back, her career path is a testament to following your passions and to keeping […]
Contributed by Liz Cornish, Leadership Coach and Keynote Speaker It’s been a tough and frustrating year for financial professionals. Watching other smart, motivated people lose their jobs is sobering. Increased regulation is forcing many institutions that were playing by the rules to endure shrinking margins and panicked customers. It’s like being grounded because your sibling […]
Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart™ In just this past week, several of my clients have sounded tired during our interview practice. I even got a very detailed response that was related to, but not quite exactly on point to what I had asked. These are hardworking jobseekers who I know are diligently working through […]
By Liz O’Donnell (Boston) A study from the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management that shows women managers are three times more likely to underrate their bosses’ opinions of them has led to a flurry of articles and blog posts asking “Do women create their own glass ceilings?”. The study looked at 251 […]
By Elizabeth Harrin (London) “I’ve always been a cold contactor,” says Jan Floyd-Douglass, when I ask her how she landed her top city jobs at Zurich and Barclays. “I find it’s much better to circumnavigate all the job ads.” Jan started out with two job offers on the table: Lloyds and Citicorp and back in […]
Contributed by Martin Mitchell of the Corporate Training Group. The eurozone emerged from recession in the third quarter. U.S. senator Chris Dodd proposed consolidating the four agencies that inspect banks into a single regulator. The London Stock Exchange suffers an embarrassing technical outage. These are but a few highlights of important market events that we’ve […]
By Liz O’Donnell (Boston) According to a recent report by the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) for Women in Technology, “Retaining a Diverse Technical Pipeline During and After a Recession,” top talent is at risk of disengagement during a recession and should be considered a high flight risk when the recovery starts. Dr. Caroline Simard, vice […]
By Liz O’Donnell (Boston) The recent announcement that pay czar Kenneth Feinberg would cut executive compensation for the 25 most highly paid employees at seven Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) recipients (AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, General Motors Co., GMAC Inc., Chrysler Group LLC and Chrysler Financial) drew strong opinions from Wall Street observers. Most […]
by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City) “Gender diversification represents a range of approaches to risk analysis and problem solving. All of that is part of the equation of getting better decisions made in a company; it isn’t just to dress up the boardroom or the C-suite with females. If there had been different perspectives and […]
By Elizabeth Harrin (London) “About 30 years worth of effort has gone into promoting more women into senior leadership,” says Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. “We have to stop bringing groups of women together to talk about what we know is going wrong.” Traditionally, women’s networks have been the ‘answer’ to the issue of getting more women into […]