May 23, 2013

Women Entrpreneurs: Mary Ellen Slayter Interview [Podcast]

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It takes a lot of guts to be an entrepreneur and it takes even more guts to be a single mom entrepreneur. That’s why Mary Ellen Slayter, Founder of Reputation Capital Media Services, is one of my personal heroines. She’s running a successful business that’s growing quickly, helping corporations turn the online publishing paradigm into [...]

PODCAST: InPower Interview with Jory des Jardins of BlogHer

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Jory des Jardins is an InPowerhouse. As one of the co-founders of BlogHer, she and her partners dedicated their business to helping empower women – personally and economically – and as a result, Blogher has become a hotbed of women on the web (full discloser, InPower Women shows up there from time to time!) Jory [...]

Podcast: The Role of Fear In Success

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I want you to meet an InPower woman. Dallice Joyner has risen above the most abject circumstances of poverty and prejudice to be an effective and motivating leader of an organization doing much needed work in our society. Dallice is the Executive Director of the Northern Virginia AHEC, an organization providing cultural competence and language [...]

Here’s To Your Health, and InPower Women’s New Health Blogger – Laurie Erdman!

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Staying healthy is a critical career and leadership skill. We simply can’t be powerful in the world and make the difference we want to make if we don’t have the energy to it all (whatever we believe “it all” is in our own lives). As I’m finding personally, as I age, my challenge to stay [...]

Gendership: A Guy’s View

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When I interviewed Mike Howard, Chief Security Officer at Microsoft, on the subject of leadership, we also had a great conversation about the role he sees gender and diversity playing in modern organizations. I listened to understand Gendership – the partnership of women and men working and leading together – from his perspective so I [...]

What You & An Air Force General Have in Common – The Path To Leadership

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  When I first met Lieutenant General Judith Fedder, I was immediately struck by her poise and presence. Then I noticed the three stars on her shoulder and wanted to know about her experience with power and leadership as one of the most senior ranking women in the military. She was very open and after [...]