Global MBA Women’s Day Conference

Gender Balance: An Opportunity for Post-crisis management?Some companies are ‘hunkering down backwards’ to hide from this crisis, trimming and cutting all but the most tried-and-true success elements of their past. Others are ‘innovating forwards’, using this period to redesign their organisations for a very different future. The latter companies know that women offer skills and styles particularly suited to the 21st century…Are you seizing the opportunity of Women-omics?

International MBA Women Careers Day: March 4th, Online, on a PC near you

Avivah Wittenberg-CoxCEO 20-first, Publisher WOMEN-omics.comWOMEN-omics and MBA-Exchange.com will host an online careers day to celebrate Internatioanl Women’s Day. Our event is designed for women with MBAs from the world’s leading business schools and the companies interested in them.The day will include an online discussion, chaired by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, author of Why Women Mean Business, and Publisher of WOMEN-omics.com. The discussion will bring together speakers from companies as well as leading career experts to focus on:

  • Why companies care about female talent;
  • How to compose a sustainable career by proactively managing women’s different career cycles;
  • How the best companies are attracting, retaining and developing both halves of the talent pool ? the female and male halves.

For MBA women and enlightened employers, the link is www.mba-exchange.com/womenHope to see you there (virtually).

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Risk and Reward:The 6th Prowess Annual International Conference 2009

Make the most of the networking opportunities at the Prowess 2009 conference!Make sure you book your place before 12 February to be included in the

Who’s Who of Women’s Enterprise Development

The Who’s Who is a fantastic networking tool profiling up to 300 key contacts in the women’s enterprise sector, and a great way to profile you and your organisation. The Who’s Who is part of the Prowess Conference handbook, and is sent out to all registered delegates one week before the event to help you plan networking.

If you have already booked your place, please send your profile text for inclusion in the Who’s Who to j.orourke@prowess.org.uk at Prowess by 5pm on Thursday 12 February.

Conference booking form

For further information call the Conference Booking Hotline: +44 (0)1603 762355 or email Conference@prowess.org.uk

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2009 United Way Women’s Leadership Summit

Join the National Women’s Leadership Council and the nation’s most significant women leaders in philanthropy and volunteerism at the 2009 National Women’s Leadership Summit

Come to the summit to:

• Learn key skills and strategies to advance the work of your Women’s Leadership Council in the areas of Resource Development, Advocacy and Leadership.

• To be inspired and empowered by like-minded women who are leading the way in advancing the common good.

• To raise awareness of the power of women to improve their communities by working together to give, advocate and volunteer.

• To be part of a dynamic forum focused on establishing, growing and increasing the impact of your local Women’s Leadership Council.

•To become part of a network of powerful women leaders who are passionate about improving their communities, the nation and the world.

Register here

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Ask-A-Recruiter: Troubleshooting Your Job Search

istock_000005168521xsmall1.jpgContributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart

A recent Inc. Magazine article by Joel Spolsky comparing running a business to getting good radio reception made me think about a similar point I often make with coaching clients about their job search: you need to constantly refine your search.

What knobs are you turning on your search? Spolsky makes the great analogy that price, location, employees, marketing, etc are the “knobs” of the start-up’s radio. For a jobseeker, you have your pitch, your resume, your cover letters, your online profile, even down to the detail you provide on an individual project. Are you looking at all the pieces of your job search package to see what is getting good reception on the market? Are you fiddling around with these knobs on an ongoing basis to get better reception?

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Women in Law and Business: How to Arrive, Survive and Thrive at the Top

HB Litigation Conferences is hosting “Women in Law & Business: How to Arrive, Survive & Thrive at the Top,” an afternoon program on March 3 at the Westin Grand in Washington, DC.

The program chairs are Robin Silver Esq. of Miles & Stockbridge P.C. of Baltimore, Md. and Andrea Tecce, CPA, managing director, Navigant Consulting, Washington, DC.

Topics and speakers include: “Career Success Accelerators for the 21st Century” featuring Mary Abbajay and Karen Bedell with Careerstone Group LLC; “What You Need to Know to Achieve the Level of Success You’ve Always Wanted” featuring Linda Kornfeld of Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Lainy LeBow-Sachs, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Sandy Chamblee, Steptoe & Johnson, and John Frisch, Miles & Stockbridge; “Moving from Ordinary to Extraordinary through Leadership” featuring Courtney Lynch, Lead Star LLC; and “How to Survive & Thrive at the Top” featuring Sara Turnipseed of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Susan E. Baumgarten, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Katie Miller, assistant general counsel at Sprint, and Marianna Dyson of Miller & Chevalier.

Contact: Mr. Tom Hagy

Phone: 484-324-2755

Email: tom.hagy@litigationconferences.com

Event Website

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The Madoff Story

bm.jpgContributed by Martin Mitchell, director of eLearning for the Corporate Training Group

The press is peppered with references to Bernard Madoff’s $50bn ‘Ponzi’ scheme, and this article attempts to cover the what, why and how of the scheme.

First a bit of background – the term Ponzi scheme dates back to a particular individual, Charles Ponzi, who fooled thousands of US residents into investing in a postage speculation scheme back in the 1920s. Ponzi told investors that he could double their funds in three months, by using their money to buy and sell international mail coupons. It was marketed as an arbitrage scheme that would buy the coupons where they were relatively cheap (in Italy) and sell them where they were relatively expensive (in the US). The promised returns saw him inundated with funds, including the staggering statistic for 1921 of taking in $1m in a 3-hour period. A few early investors were paid off to make the scheme look legitimate, but a subsequent investigation found that Ponzi had only purchased about $30 worth of the international mail coupons. Ponzi was jailed, but had enjoyed a very comfortable living for a time including an air conditioned mansion with heated swimming pool.

From that point on, a Ponzi scheme became the term for a scheme that works on a “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” principle, with money from new investors used to pay off earlier investors with little or no real investment taking place.
Bernard Madoff’s scheme was similar. Mr. Madoff formed Bernard L Madoff Securities LLC in 1960, and was chairman of the company until early December 2008, when he was charged with investor fraud. He is currently under house arrest in his apartment in Manhattan.

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A Celebration of U.N. Women’s Week/International Women’s Day

In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2009, GNG will be celebrating the remarkable achievements of women worldwide all week long! Students will study a series of women who have taken exquisite leadership in their communities by learning how they are changing and shaping our world!

For more information, please contact Grace Lau at grace@gng.org.

Register here

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The Everywoman Conference: Scotland

The everywoman Conference Scotland

Now in its second year, The everywoman Conference Scotland is the premier event for female business owners looking for ideas and inspiration to grow a business.

Click here for more information and to register

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Top Women to Follow on Twitter

iStock_000006561903XSmall_1_.jpgby Elizabeth Harrin (London)

Do you tweet? Twitter is a micro-blogging tool that allows you to ‘tweet’ anything – as long as it fits within 140 characters, which is the length of a standard text message. That is what has made it so popular, as you can send and receive messages by phone, or if you prefer via instant messaging or a website. People use it to update their friends with how they are and what they are doing. On the receiving end, you can choose people to receive updates from – your family, celebrities or interesting commentators.

Curious? Once you have a Twitter account you can both update your own status and receive updates from other people whom you have chosen to ‘follow’. Yes, Twitter comes with a whole new language. Since logging on for the first time recently I have learnt about following, tweeting and retweeting, hashtags, @ responses, direct messages. There isn’t space here to explain how to use Twitter to its full advantage, but there are plenty of websites dedicated to just that.

There is a lot of noise on Twitter. People send updates about their last cup of coffee, and British comedian and presenter Stephen Fry made headlines recently when he tweeted about being stuck in a lift. The information comes to you in real time format, but that doesn’t make it interesting. So how do you know who to follow? The best advice is to choose people who interest you and whom you have come across from another source. Bloggers, for example, may blog once or twice a week (like me) but tweet on a daily basis. Using Twitter you will get instant notification of new blog posts but also useful, short titbits more regularly: things that aren’t shared on the blog. I have wasted many an evening reading the profiles of the people being followed by someone I am following. If you follow my meaning.

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Women’s Executive Leadership Retreat

All successful leaders come to a point in their careers when further advancement is contingent upon further refining a set of crucial analytic and communication skills. TheWomen’s Executive Leadership Retreat will give you the skills needed to recognize and transcend the barriers holding you back so that you can make your career goals a reality. By examining leaders’ challenges through a feminine perspective, you will better appreciate when and why gender matters in organizational advancement. Finally, our program has partnered with the Greater Good Science Center and is uniquely focused on helping women achieve balance between career advancement and personal happiness.

Apply Here

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