Positive Politics for Powerful Female Leaders and Better Buyer Relationships

Positive Politics for Poweful Female Leaders – One Day ClinicFacilitated by Michelle Brailsford, Co-Founder of Jupiter Consulting Group, this one day seminar helps female leaders learn to be political whilst maintaining their integrity.

Catalyst, a leading business research organisation, found that 55% of women compared to 57% of men aspire to CEO-ship. Women have the drive and talent. They simply need to refocus their views on what it means to be politically savvy and to compete effectively in the business world.

To Register: email Michelle Brailsford: michelle@jupiterconsultinggroup.com

You will learn:

• how lack of political awareness can derail your career

• a model for diagnosing political style

• how to manage the four P’s: Power, Presence, Perceptions and Politics

• some key strategies for managing politically sensitive situations

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Women CEOs and the Husbands Who Work for Them

Last week’s New York Times article in a series on female entrepreneurs focused primarily on women running cottage craft businesses out of their homes (and overdid it, in this blogger’s opinion). In contrast, this week’s article on female entrepreneurs profiles women who are running large-scale successful companies, and employing their husbands too. The article by Geraldine Fabrikant, entitled “Would You Hire Your Husband?” profiled women like Laura Udall, former AT&T executive and currently CEO of Zuca Inc., a company that manufactures ergonomically correct luggage. She hired her husband to work as Vice President of design and manufacturing.

Carol Kotewicz-Dencker hired her future husband as a manager at her $7 million staffing services company based on Oakland, California. They married five years later, and today he is COO and she is CEO. The combination works because he focuses on growth and bugeting, and she focuses on sales and promotion. Ms. Kotewicz-Dencker credits her success with being an only child who was raised to believe there were no restrictions on what she could achieve based on her gender.
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New Chair For The National Women’s Business Council

By: Heather Cassell

The National Women’s Business Council announced President George W. Bush intends to appoint Carole Jean Jordan as chair.

“I look forward to continuing to work with the other members of the Council to advance the state of women’s business ownership in this country,” says Jordan in a June 17 news release. “I hope to build upon the valuable contributions to female business owners.”

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CAADA Summer Party!

CAADA is a charity established to encourage the use of independent advocacy as a way to increase the safety of survivors.

We are working to create a consistent, professional and effective response for all survivors of domestic violence and in particular those at high risk. We do this through delivering services directly to advocacy projects, their local multi-agency partners and also through our work with funders, policy advisers and government.

Please join us for drinks as we celebrate three years of helping victims
of domestic abuse find a way out.

For more information on CAADA

To Register

Or, if you would like to Donate

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How to Find A Job In A Difficult Market

FREE* TELECLASS

Should your job search strategy be different in a tough economy? Is a career change unthinkable right now? Should you focus on hanging on at your current company or start looking just in case?

Join this free* 45-minute teleclass to explore your job search options in a difficult market.

Hear from Caroline Ceniza-Levine, co-founder of SixFigureStart and former executive search and corporate recruiter. Learn how the hiring process really works.

Space is limited. Email info@sixfigurestart.com to register and get the call-in details.

*For free teleclasses there is no charge for the class, but you are responsible for any long-distance phone charges incurred to access the conference phone line.

Caroline Ceniza-Levine

212-372-0277

Life Coach www.thinkasinc.com

Career Coach www.sixfigurestart.com

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“Challenges for an Incoming CFO: Managing Your Organization Through a Credit Crisis”

Please join 100 Women in Hedge Funds for Lehman’s Annual Risk event, featuring Erin Callan, CFO of Lehman Brothers, as she discusses challenges she has faced in helping navigate Lehman through the credit turmoil in her recently appointed role as CFO. She will offer her insights on both the mitigation of risk during volatile market conditions as well as the outlook for Lehman and in the industry.

Speaker: Erin Callan, Chief Financial Officer, Lehman Brothers

Networking and cocktails following session.

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Senior Techleaders: Leadership, the Final Frontier

A two day workshop for senior level women to increase their networking and leadership skills.

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2008 MBA Women’s Conference

Join the Forté Foundation for the one women’s conference that brings together everything you need to conquer your world and packs it into one exhilarating weekend. Marshalling an international network of progressive companies, world-class business schools, and phenomenal women leaders, Forté’s MBA Women’s Conference brings you an unrivaled agenda of speakers and sessions that compel you to find your purpose, pursue your passion, and project your power.

Deadline to Register: June 16

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9th Annual Women in Business National Conference

In June 2008, WBENC will hold its 9th annual Women in Business national conference and business fair in
Atlanta, GA. More than 2,500 attendees and 400 exhibitors are expected to attend the event. The national conference and business fair is the largest event of its kind in the nation for women’s business enterprises (WBEs). During the event, WBEs, senior corporate executives, supplier diversity and procurement professionals, and government representatives will foster many business opportunities by participating in an ambitious agenda including networking activities, workshops, general sessions and special events. Designed to benefit both corporations and women-owned businesses, WBENC’s national conference and business fair is the event to add to your calendar if you are a woman business owner seeking to do business with corporate
America, or if your corporation seeks to expand its supplier base by adding quality women-owned firms to its roster.

For more information and how to register: https://www.wbenc.org/wib2008/

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Legal and Global Compliance Networking Event

On June 26, 2008, the Legal Department and Global Compliance Division will host an event in partnership with their diversity affinity networks. The primary objective of the event, “Legal and Compliance Professionals: Developing Our Careers”, is to generate interest in legal and compliance at Goldman Sachs.

The event will include a brief overview of the Legal Department and Global Compliance Division followed by a panel of speakers who will share their experiences, career choices and development here at the firm. The program will conclude with a reception for attendees to network with Goldman Sachs employees.

Financial services expertise is not required. If you or anyone you know has an interest in legal and compliance areas and has relevant knowledge or experience – we encourage you to submit your resume to EHRTdiversity@gs.com by June 24, 2008. Qualified referrals will be contacted via email with further details about the event.

For additional information, please contact Monica Marquez at: monica.marquez@gs.com

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