Please join 100 Women in Hedge Funds as we welcome our distinguished speaker Elizabeth Coffey, founder of Spark Leadership. Elizabeth advises board executives on developing their organizations by leading change. She lectures frequently on change, leadership and organization development on academic and professional platforms in the UK and internationally and won ‘Mentor of the Year’ at the Women of the Future Awards 2007.

Her latest book on leadership was published by McGraw Hill in 2002, entitled “10 Things That Keep CEOs Awake – and How to Put Them to Bed”.

We will begin promptly at 6:30 PM; please arrive early.

Networking and cocktails before and after session.

* Admissions to these events are free, but space is limited so please RSVP immediately

Women@Work Network is hosting a networking meeting for returning professionals.

Earlier this year, Women@Work Network launched a networking meeting for returning professionals. Our definition of a returning professional is a woman who opted to leave the paid workforce for a period of time to raise a family, care for ill or aging relatives or pursue personal interests. At the meeting we will identify your particular interests and divide attendees into smaller discussion groups. Most likely there will be one group of women not quite ready to dive back into the work world (who keep thinking that “at some point” they want to get back to work, but have actually been saying that for months or even years). Another group will be less interested a full-fledged “career” but ready to look for for a full-time or part-time “minimum commitment”, low stress “job”. Still another group may be actively engaged in a job search and looking to return to the career they once left behind. Whatever your particular situation might be, this networking meeting will be an opportunity to share insights and ideas about the return to work process.

Registration Deadline:
July 9th, 10:00 a.m.

To participate contact Kim Britto at kbritto@womenatworknetwork.com

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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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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