A Guide to Self-Perception: How to Better Understand Yourself and Others

A workshop designed to improve the effectiveness of your communication to others.

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The Secrets To Confidence In Business

Everywoman is hosting an event in partnership with Business Link East, designed to offer women the skills to appear confident and credible in personal and business situations.

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Up, Up and Away! Reviews of Two Business Books to Inspire Women

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cimg2998.JPGFor this second installment of business book reviews, our editorial staff has reviewed two of their recent favorites:

  1. Trade Up! Five Steps for Redesigning your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out, by Rayona Sharpnack
  2. Spiral Up: and other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives, by Jane Linder.

As you might imagine from their upwardly mobile titles, both books provide advice and encouragement to women looking to move up in the ranks at work, and harness the power and confidence to succeed in life. Sort of like the literary version of buying a coveted handbag or treating yourself to some full-fat ice cream, both of these books are a great start to a career pick-me-up.

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Geeks With Peeps

The rise of Gen X is changing the focus from the Old Guard to CIO’s and tech. Join a lively discussion about this changing landscape and how you can be effected.

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Are You Brave Enough to Become Wildly Successful?

Contributed by Dr. Jane Linder, President, Progress Board LLC.

A few weeks ago, I was addressing a gathering of the Finance Women’s Association in New York City. They invited me because of my book, Spiral Up, which talks about the surprising lessons we have to learn from wildly successful initiatives. It turns out that conventional “good management practice” seems to be exactly the wrong way to go if you want to accomplish amazing things. So the brought me in to share some good stories and counter-intuitive advice.

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Investment Week US Focus 2008

Investment Week believes this is an ideal time to invite key players from the US fund arena to take part in a special “Focus on Investing in US Equity Funds” conference that will inform and further educate leading discretionaries and advisers about the subject – in the process crystallising themselves as market leaders in this field and maintaining awareness of their brands.

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Wall Street Votes with their Wallets

61056391_31343afdc6_m_1.jpgThe deep pockets of donors in the financial sector have always been appealing to presidential candidates in both the Democratic and Republican parties, who make it a priority to cultivate support on Wall Street. Now that Wall Street darling and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is out of the presidential race, who do Wall Streeters favor in the upcoming election? Senator Obama emerges as a favorite over Senators Clinton and McCain, but, as with most financial decision-making, it’s complicated.

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Women Climbing the Corporate and Real Estate Ladders

Sex In The City glamorized the image of the urban single woman, with a gorgeous apartment, a stylish wardrobe, an exciting life and means to pay for it all. Television has elevated the archetype of the powerful professional women to a cultural icon. With the premieres this season of Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle, two more sexy dramas about upwardly mobile women in their 30s, successful females have finally hit the limelight.

Ever notice that, on these shows, the characters always live in unrealistically spectacular apartments? Do you wonder if real women in a similar situation can afford to own such nice digs? Well, art must be imitating life because as women move up the corporate ladder, they also move up the property ladder.

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Voice of Experience: Julia Mord, Hedge Fund Analyst

julia-pic.JPGFor this Voice of Experience article, The Glass Hammer focused on Julia Mord, a young woman on the rise at a New York-based boutique investment management firm.

Julia is an Investment Analyst at a private investment office that manages money for a high net worth family. The firm manages two alternative investment portfolios that invest predominantly in both private equity and hedge funds. She is one of five investment professionals in the small office, which includes a fund manager, two analysts, an accounting manager and an intern. Read more

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Poker: Not Just For The Boys Anymore

In the return of The Glass Hammer’s Intrepid Women series, we sent our own Kathryn Nilsson Reichert to learn how to play poker well enough to beat the gentlemen at their own game. Here, she describes the results…

564143766_45929e0bc2_m.jpgCard games were never interesting to me. In fact, aside from an occasional game of solitaire while traveling, the last time I remember playing cards was a game of “go fish” with my grandmother when I was in junior high school. I have never owned a deck of cards nor felt the need to buy one.

Naturally, I was less than enthused when a girlfriend called me recently and said, “Come with me to a women’s poker party tomorrow night!” My first thought was, why? It’s cold outside and it’s already been a long week at work. Besides, thinking about poker conjured up images of men in cheap suits in Vegas casinos hunched over tables for hours, slowly burning through wads of cash. “Don’t be a wet blanket,” my friend said. “Poker is the ‘game du jour.’ We can learn how to play and do some quality business networking at the same time.”

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