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3 Top Business Women Offer Their Best Career Advice

November 5, 2018 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

3 Top Business Women Offer Their Best Career Advice

Who better to turn to for career advice (aside from your own network) than three seriously successful women who were chosen to inspire others at the recent Pennsylvania Conference for Women? The following three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Home, Leadership Skills Tagged With: career advice, leadership skills, success, women business

Inside the C-Suite: Meet Jessica Parisi, CEO, BTS USA

September 4, 2018 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Inside the C-Suite: Meet Jessica Parisi, CEO, BTS USA

Jessica Parisi has always craved what she calls “deliberate discomfort.” It’s her guiding rule that she’s had since she began her career: “If I stop learning at the pace I want to learn or stop having fun, then I’ll do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Home, Inside the C-Suite Tagged With: BTS, career advice, CEO, female CEO, Jesscia Parisi

Inside the C-Suite: Meet Ilene S. Gordon, CEO, Ingredion

March 17, 2017 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Inside the C-Suite: Meet Ilene S. Gordon, CEO, Ingredion

Unlike a lot of female Fortune 500 CEOs, who rose through the ranks at a company, Ilene S. Gordon was an outsider when she was tapped to lead Ingredion – maker of starches, sweeteners and specialty food ingredients – in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Inside the C-Suite Tagged With: career advice, CEO, ilene s. gordon, ingredion, women CEOs

Getting to the C-Suite (from a female COO who did)

March 3, 2017 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Getting to the C-Suite (from a female COO who did)

If you really want to advance your career and get to the C-suite, Melissa Greenwell, Chief Operating Officer of sporting goods retailer The Finish Line, knows exactly what it takes. She’s held senior leadership roles for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Home Tagged With: C-Suite, career advice, Gender Equality, women executives

5 Behaviors That Could Be Stalling Your Career

February 22, 2017 By Lisa McKale

5 Behaviors That Could Be Stalling Your Career

We all have a few work habits we’re not proud of. Who hasn’t devised a sneaky way to avoid boring meetings? Or told someone you’ll “get right back to them” then calling when you’re sure you can leave voice mail? Some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Home Tagged With: behaviors, career advice, confidence, Habits, mentoring, mistakes, success

Inside the C-Suite: Meet Meg Whitman, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

February 17, 2017 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Inside the C-Suite: Meet Meg Whitman, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Meg Whitman seems to be the female CEO with the easiest smile, especially when you see photos of her in the news. And with all of her accomplishments, she does have a lot to smile about. She’s on Forbes’ 2016 Most Powerful … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: business challenges, career advice, eBay, female CEO, Gender Equality, Hewlett Packard, meg whitman, most powerful women

Weigh the Options: 4 Career Moves That Need a Pro/Con List

February 8, 2017 By Lisa McKale

Weigh the Options: 4 Career Moves That Need a Pro/Con List

It’s the beginning of a new year, and perhaps for a while, you’ve been feeling restless with your present career state. Maybe your company is mired in a promotions freeze that hasn’t thawed. Or, you’re aware of friends who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life Balance Tagged With: career advice, Career development, confidence, pro-con list, Strategic thinking, success

Networking Mistakes Women Make (from a female CEO who networked her way to the top)

February 3, 2017 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Networking Mistakes Women Make (from a female CEO who networked her way to the top)

Do you network enough?  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: career advice, Career development, leadership skills, networking, networking mistakes

The Most Effective Ways to Say ‘I Don’t Know’

February 1, 2017 By Lisa McKale

The Most Effective Ways to Say ‘I Don’t Know’

Quick guess: What are three of the hardest words for any successful woman to say? Is your first thought, “I don’t know?” If so, you’d be right on the money! But “I don’t know” (and its cousin, “I’m not sure”) are really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: career advice, Communication, confidence, Know, leadership, mistakes

Knowing When—and When NOT—to Negotiate

January 25, 2017 By Lisa McKale

Knowing When—and When NOT—to Negotiate

We’ve all heard the expression, “Never start a war you can’t win.” Or on a more practical level: “Pick your battles.” Which, it turns out, is something successful women do to our advantage most of the time. Women are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: Assertive, career advice, decision making, negotiating, Strategic thinking, success, women

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