Voice of Experience: Suze Orman, Personal Finance Guru

suze_orman1.JPGContributed by Heather Cassell, Glass Hammer contributor and freelance writer in San Francisco.

As many of you loyal Glass Hammer readers know, we love the practical and down-to-earth financial advice for women offered by personal finance guru Suze Orman. In a recent interview with a Glass Hammer contributor, Orman explained that she didn’t buy into gender differences regarding how men and women think about and handle their money until five years into her Emmy Award-winning financial show, The Suze Orman Show, on CNBC. After listening to five years of callers’ questions and observing her own friends’ relationships with money, she began examining the differences in how women and men handle money.

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A New Path for Women Returning to the Workforce

The program focuses on self-assessment, career visioning, and goal setting; academic enrichment in business fundamentals; and updates on key business and IT skills.

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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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