Women’s Leadership Conference

To have the best talent in your organization, women must be part of that picture. As a professional responsible for women’s career advancement from either a line or staff position, you are always looking for new ways to engage women for the benefit of themselves and the organization. The challenges of finding and keeping the best and brightest female managers to lead your company in the future are many. Join us as we discuss how to recruit, train, integrate, promote and retain these valuable employees with senior executives who have proven strategies for success.

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Tips for Searching for a Job in a Recession

139818702_44dc937e1f_m.jpgYou have heard the rumors that your company is going to be announcing yet another round of write-downs and lay offs. Maybe you have been sneaking off during your lunch hour to make clandestine calls to headhunters and surreptitiously sending out resumes from your gmail account during work. Or maybe, in the last month or two of bloodletting on Wall Street, your boss sat you down, thanked you for your years of service to the company, and told you all about the wonderful severance package the company was prepared to offer you, before shaking your hand with a grimace and ushering you out the door.

In that case, perhaps you have recently enjoyed a relaxing week or two of vacation, catching up with friends and family and cleaning up your apartment. Or maybe you have been of getting up at noon and watching day time talk shows, while sitting on your couch in your underwear and eating Capt’n Crunch.

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In Europe and Breaking the Bank

2334619694_7965929af1_m.jpgMy mother and I were checking out of our hotel in the old city of Vienna when the receptionist behind the desk asked me if I wanted to pay in euros or dollars. I handed her my Visa and said I would pay in euros, since seeing the inflated price in dollars would only depress me. The woman agreed and handed me a bill for 330 euros. Knowing quite well that I had just spent about $600, I signed the bill quickly and pushed the amount out of my head.

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Amsterdam Financial Information Summit

This comprehensive one–day event brings together market and reference data managers from leading financial firms across Europe to examine solutions to the most urgent challenges facing their businesses.

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Socially Responsible Investment: A New Generation’s Torch

Contributed by Alana Elsner

140925254_869c882a51_m.jpg“Who is a better businessperson- Donald Trump or Mother Theresa?” someone once asked me. “Donald Trump, of course,” was the obvious answer. “No, Mother Theresa,” he replied. With smug smile that comes from stumping someone, he listed her achievements including bringing record donations not only to Calcutta but also to the Catholic Church. And her name and face were as recognizable as Michael Jordan’s- remember this was the 90s. She was perhaps the first of the modern day chariteurs- entrepreneurs bringing business-like basics to charity.

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Working Smarter Not Harder

“Working Smarter, Not Harder” will include a key note speech from Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris, professional speaker, trainer and accredited coach, two short presentations from Microsoft representatives about how they work flexibly and a panel discussion on the evening’s topic. The event is kindly being hosted by Microsoft at their Cardinal Place offices which are very close to Victoria Station in central London – 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL.

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Small to Big, Becoming an Entrepreneur in New York

Join the Government Affairs committee for an exciting evening about entrepreneurship in the New York region. “Small to Big, Becoming an Entrepreneur in New York” will focus on women who have expressed an interest in becoming entrepreneurs as they look for new career opportunities and fellow entrepreneurs who want to grow and build sustainable enterprises with the assistance of independent and government sponsored resources.

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Women’s Celebratory Dinner

This exclusive, black-tie event celebrates and honours the role of women and the contributions they have made to a range of domains and societies over the years. A panel of three outstanding women, hosted by a renowned news presenter, will speak about the determination and courage to achieve success and stretch boundaries; the role of women in their culture and fields; finding empowerment and the challenges of striking a life/work balance in today’s challenging world. Join us to meet these formidable women who have achieved remarkable triumphs in the 21st century. This is a dinner to celebrate the women of yesterday and today who have stood the test of time and made a difference.

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Voice of Experience: Meg Whitman, eBay

Meg_Whitman.jpgAfter ten years at the helm of eBay, President and CEO Meg Whitman announced that she intends to retire effective today, March 31, 2008. A visionary in the field of online commerce and a true leader, Ms. Whitman offers a Voice of Experience for young women in business. She will be succeeded by John Donahoe, 47, who has headed eBay’s auction and e-commerce businesses.Meg Whitman became President and CEO of eBay, the online auction website, in 1998. One of only 12 female CEOs in the Fortune 500, she has lead eBay with a vision and unique sense of direction that has enabled the company to grow from a small online trading website to the largest e-commerce site in the world. When she took the helm of eBay, Ms. Whitman focused on building the eBay brand into a household name, and improving consumer trust and confidence in the online commerce experience. Read more

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Golden State Tarnished by Lack of Women’s Leadership

Contributed by Heather Cassell

20006509_a4576fcee9_m.jpgCalifornia has a reputation for its progressive politics as well as being a well of innovative inventions and opportunities, but the golden state doesn’t have a sunny disposition when it comes to women’s leadership.

Nearly half, 49.8 percent, of California’s 400 publicly held companies have no women executive officers, according to a University of California at Davis Graduate School of Management report revealed last October, and only 34.3 percent of the state’s public companies have only one woman on its board of directors. This means that in such a trend setting, policy establishing progressive state women make up only 27 percent of the active directors and executive officers of California’s 400 largest public companies. But for the largest publicly held companies headquartered in California the number of women who comprise directors’ and executives’ chairs in 2007 drops to 10.4 percent and this is a slight increase from 10.2 percent in 2006, according to the report.

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