Podcasts about women's initiative

Sally Peebles is back this week to talk about the Women's Initiative for a Safe and Equitable Florida. Sally talks about the coming together of this new advocacy organization, and the need for the work they will start doing on March 25th when they officially launch! Check out their website when they launch to see their work and their goals and listen all the way through to find out how to be involved. wisefl.org Email: info@cannaguys.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cannaguyspodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/canna_guys Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cannaguyspodcast/

On this episode of OFF SAFETY we discuss the criteria a woman has to meet before raw sex is introduced. Also how often should the woman initiate sex in the relationship? Tune in and enjoy! ITS OFF SAFETY BLACK FRIDAY EDITION! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/offsafety/support

In a far ranging discussion, Karen Van Voorhis, CFP®, FPA MA’s Director of the Women’s Committee, discusses women’s issues in our industry. From the numbers of women in the profession to use of language in a gender-neutral setting to the benefits of small groups supporting one another.  Karen Looks ahead to the future and shares some marketing tips.

Pam Hamamoto, former ambassador to the UN in Geneva under President Barack Obama, joins Press the Button for an exclusive interview on her experiences leading the US’s largest overseas multilateral diplomatic post, and her current leadership of the Women's Initiative $1 Million Campaign at Ploughshares Fund. Hamamoto co-founded International Gender Champions, a global network of leaders committed to promoting gender equality through specific actions and policy changes. Early Warning features Tom Collina and Akshai Vikram comparing the Democratic presidential candidates' positions on nuclear policy with that of the Trump administration's approach, the IAEA's latest report on Iran's uranium enrichment, and what to do about Coronavirus.

Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way® Presents Building Strong Women Leaders with Sangeeta Rao Sangeeta Rao, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Student Mentoring Programs at Rutgers University, is passionate about empowering women. Sangeeta oversees Women BUILD, a leadership program designed to give high achieving, talented women undergraduates at Rutgers Business School the opportunity to reach their full leadership potential as business students. She also co-leads a new Women's Initiative at Rutgers Business School that seeks to build stronger connections between students, faculty, alumni, and corporations with a goal of addressing systemic gender biases in business.  Join us as Sangeeta shares what mentorship means to her and the personal effect that Women BUILD has had on her life and career.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including Libsyn, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts. See you in two weeks! Helpful Links: Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way® http://womenswealth-themiddleway.libsyn.com/ Glen Eagle https://www.gleneagleadv.com/ Mentorship at Rutgers: https://www.business.rutgers.edu/mentorship Mentoring Articles Link and Link Rutgers University Leadership: https://www.business.rutgers.edu/about-rbs/leadership Show Transcript:  Susan Michel: Welcome back to Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way®, the show that answers your questions about work, money and family. My name is Susan McGlory Michel and I am the CEO and founder of Glen Eagle, a wealth management firm in New Jersey. Today, I'm joined by Sangeeta Rao, Assistant Dean of Student Mentoring Programs at Rutgers University. Sangeeta oversees the Women's Business Undergraduate and Leadership Development, or Women BUILD program, which is a leadership program designed to provide high-achieving, motivated and talented women undergraduates the opportunity to reach their full leadership potential as business students. She is now co-leading a new women's initiative at breakfast business school that seeks to build strong connections between students, faculty, alumni and corporations. with the goal of addressing systemic gender biases and business, she has conducted a training program on mentoring for women officials in Vietnam as part of the United Nations Development Program initiative. Sangeeta has a PhD in communication studies from the University of Massachusetts. Welcome. Sangeeta Rao: Thank you. Thank you for having me. Susan Michel: You know, when I was looking and reading so much about you, you have accomplished so much, the one thing that struck me was that you actually went to the White House in 2015 to participate in the national conversation about business schools and women business leaders and future policies and US workforce. Can you give us a summary of Women BUILD and what it hopes to provide to young females? And in this particular case, Rutgers students? Sangeeta Rao: Yes. Absolutely. To reference back to the White House meeting, this was under the previous administration, which convened through the Council of Economic Advisors and the White House Council on Women and Girls, a meeting of old business school deans, because there's such a concern on a national level about providing access and opportunities to women to access higher education in business, as well as the pathways that lead to successful careers in business. So obviously, this was a concern for the Council of Economic Advisers as well as the Council on Women and Girls. And it's a very valid one. Increasingly and continuously we've seen the lack of representation of women at higher levels within organizations when it comes to leadership, we’ve also seen the persistence of pay inequity at all levels, especially for women of color. These are systemic issues that need systemic changes, which is why...

Winning the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards with only a 2% chance among 2900 other applicants was no easy feat. In this episode, Ronster chats with Carmina Bayombong, Founder of InvestEd, 1 out of 7 companies that recently won the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards. She will discuss how her hustle on putting low income and marginalized college kids to school has led her to building her own startup company. Carmina will also talk about her passion in helping the community and building a career out of it to further make an impact in society. Lastly, she will give her advice to entrepreneurs who are in the valley of death and tips to fundraising from her years of experience in this heart-warming episode.

Singapore has an ageing population. It's a situation often described in anxious, alarmist tones, with the growing number of senior citizens framed as dependent on a shrinking pool of able-bodied working adults. Yet the country is doing well in terms of health life expectancies, indicating that Singapore's elderly aren't as helpless or infirm as they are often portrayed as being. Is it time for a fundamental overhaul of the way we think about ageing? In this episode, we talk to Dr Kanwaljit Soin, founding president of Women's Initiative for Ageing Successfully (WINGS), and Fong Hoe Fang, the founder of Ethos Books currently in the process of retiring to future adventures.

Women have been successful in moving into the middle management positions within their companies and organizations, but despite the number of women’s initiative events, social gatherings, and conferences, the number of women in senior leadership roles has barely moved over the last few decades. Many women initiative event organizers host events that provide little more than a way for the group of women within their organizations to gather, chat, and network with each other. Keep Reading >> How do you invigorate the female leaders in your organization? What can you do to truly support and help the women in your company grow and develop new skills to advance in their careers? On today’s episode, I’m going to share with you a few powerful tips that I use when working with businesses and organizations hosting women’s initiative events. These powerful tips can help any organization ramp up their program and empower their female leaders to step into their power and achieve their true potential within their organization.   “If you are going to bring people together, it’s got to be more than just a networking event.”     Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast: Why organizations should train women on how to deal with unconscious gender bias. Why the CEO and men in senior leadership roles should also attend women’s initiative events. When it comes to diversity inclusion, there is no such thing as one and done.   3 Tips to Invigorate Your Women’s Initiative Events: Ensure the programming supports your women to overcome unconscious gender bias. Involve your senior leadership in the programming – especially the men. Make it part of a more comprehensive program.   Love the show? Let us know!      Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!       What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month’s drawing!           And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…       Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!       Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.             A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors     This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal.    

Welcome to Grandmothers on the Move! I’m your host, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis. Today, a great pleasure and honour! A conversation with Ruth Ojiembo Ochieng, a respected leader in the peace and security architecture in Africa. A dedicated and effective advocate for women's human rights, Ruth was the Executive Director of Isis-WICCE in Uganda, which advocates for women's rights in 50 countries through training and skills building, documenting women's realities, and lobbying governments. Ruth is a member of the International Coordinating Committee of Women's Human Rights Defenders, an advisory member of the Women's Initiative for Gender Justice in the Hague, and amongst other things, works with the Stephen Lewis Foundation building relationships with grassroots partner organizations at the frontlines of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

P3 — The Practice Innovation Conference is back with an all-new episode of the P3cast series, celebrating the P3 Women's Initiative Network and Women's History Month. Listen as Purvi Sanghvi (director of strategic pricing, Paul Hastings) and Kristina Lambright, ESQ. (director of pricing and legal project management, Perkins Coie) chat with Lisa Konie (senior director of legal operations, Adobe Systems; Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) board member) and Amanda Brady (managing partner; global practice leader, law firm management, Major, Lindsey & Africa) [0:23-58:08], then stick around for a bonus interview with Sanghvi and Sherrese Smith (partner in telecommunications, media, technology, privacy and cyber security, and Internet of Things, Paul Hastings) [58:14-1:12:43]. The women share their career paths, stories of mentors gone right, and work-life balance tips.

Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Morgan Simon. Simon is a widely-recognized leader in impact investment who builds bridges between finance and social justice.  Over the past seventeen years, she has influenced over $150 billion in capital.  Simon currently co-leads Candide Group, which supports two clients, including members of the Pritzker family on behalf of the Libra Foundation. She is also co-founder and chair of the non-profit Transform Finance. Previously, Simon served as the founding CEO of Toniic, a global network of impact investors, and as the founding executive director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition. She has worked with the United Nations in Honduras, in corporate reform with ForestEthics, and in domestic microfinance with the Women's Initiative for Self-Employment. She currently serves on the boards of the Restaurant Opportunity Center, The Working World, and CARE Enterprises. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Simon serves as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College's graduate school program. She lives in the Bay Area.

Today's interview is with Morgan Simon, a widely recognized leader in impact investment. Over the past seventeen years, she has influenced $150+ billion from individuals, foundations, and endowments, into socially conscious investments. Her latest book REAL IMPACT: THE NEW ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE, has been hailed as “brilliant” by CNN’s Van Jones. Simon currently co-leads Candide Group, which supports two clients, including members of the Pritzker family on behalf of the Libra Foundation. She is also co-founder and chair of the non-profit Transform Finance. Previously, Simon served as the founding CEO of Toniic, a global network of impact investors, and as the founding executive director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition. She has worked with the United Nations in Honduras, in corporate reform with ForestEthics, and in domestic microfinance with the Women's Initiative for Self-Employment. She currently serves on the boards of the Restaurant Opportunity Center, The Working World, and CARE Enterprises. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Simon serves as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College's graduate school program. She lives in the Bay Area.Simon lays out three principles that will ensure impact investing stays on course and can reach its potential to solve societal problems through sustainable, profitable models. Some of the things we discuss in our interview are:How charity and finance are ineffective tools for rebuilding a community but impact investing is How impact investment is the trillion-dollar trend that can change the worldHow to get impact investing right How the largest wealth holders in the world are increasingly moving to impact investmentHow impact investment is for everyone—not just the wealthyResources Mentioned In This EpisodeMorgan's Website: http://morgansimon.com/Morgan's Book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/morgan-simon/real-impact/9781568589817/?lens=nation-books See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You all know by now that I'm a big believer that when women earn more and participate in leadership roles the world is a better place. Today's guest is is the National Managing Director of the Deloitte Women's Initiative (WIN). Which is helping to achieve just that. Deepa Purushothaman is our guest today and through WIN, she works to help build opportunity, enrichment and new thinking around talent and inclusion in the workforce so that all leaders, especially women, thrive. She also leads the Social Impact service line of Deloitte Consulting LLP and has a lot of experience working in the private sector. Previously, she was part of the Telecommunications, Media and Technology practice where she helped clients nationally and globally to redefine their company evolution. In this episode learn about the financial hardship growing up that shaped the way she thinks about and runs her financial life, the critical business meeting years ago that defined her leadership style and what she thinks about whether women should take a page out of the male playbook when it comes to succeeding in the workplace. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.

Joanna Olsen is the Founder and Managing Partner of Olsen Global Consulting, LLC (OGC).  Ms. Olsen has more than 25 years of client experience in Europe, Asia and the Americas  providing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) expertise for clients in sales & service optimization and customer relationship management transformation developing comprehensive innovative solutions that improve profits. Prior to founding OGC in 2009,  Ms. Olsen was a partner at Accenture in the CRM Global Practice where she provided a broad range of consulting services to clients with major focus on sales and service performance improvement.  Over her 10 year tenure she worked with on numerous client engagements centered on strategic process improvement planning and customer relationship management design for complex environments. Her work spanned across enterprise and mass market customer segments. Clients included AT&T, Brasil Telecom, Microsoft, Telus, Boeing, Nokia, SAP, Sprint, Verizon, Huawei.  In addition to her accomplished professional career, she has been active in supporting the development of women.  At Accenture she was the Executive Sponsor of the Northern California International Women's Day programs which included distinguished keynote speakers (Kamala Harris) and interactive workshops for employees and clients.  Ms. Olsen also is a former board member for Women's Initiative for Self Employment-a SF based organization that provides training and support for low income women entrepreneurs.  She is also a member of Nafe the largest global network for women Ms. Olsen earned her BA in Psychology from Douglass College, her MBA from Rutgers University, and her Advanced Executive MBA from Drucker Graduate School of Management.  

Dykema is a leading, national law firm built upon its Midwestern heritage and values. Dykema serves a wide spectrum of national and multinational corporate clients and offers a widevariety of legal services. Janet Stiven is a member of Dykema’s Business Services Group. She brings more than twenty years experience to representing a diverse group of U.S. and multi-national clients, including companies in a variety of high growth industries, such as medical devices, information technology and e-commerce.Janet has served as a leader of and is actively involved with Dykema’s Women’s Business Initiative. As part of Dykema’s continued commitment to diversity, Dykema women attorneys and government professionals bring together business women and leaders of diverse occupations, providing opportunities for networking and professional and personal growth.Today Janet and I will discuss the Dykema women's initiative and why it is important the culture at Dykema and their clients.

Lisa Faye now lives in Saskatoon after many years. She studied at Memorial University, Newfoundland. She first found out about CUSO on the web and met Marian White who is the PE Officer in PEI.She arrived in Accra and then served in Ho.The organizations were Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE) and then Women in Law and Development Africa where she worked firstly on gender issues and then on statistics and advocacy work on domestic violence in Ghana.She then came back to Canada and finished her Master's degree and went back again to Africa this time to Botswana with WUSC.You can now find her working with OXFAM as a Policy and Outreach Officer in Saskatoon.Thank you Lisa for your service and hospitality in Saskatoon. It was lovely meeting your wonderful daughter Leila. Volunteer for a better world! Join CUSO-VSO, share skills and volunteer in 43 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Volunteers, donate, share skills.www.cuso-vso.org