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Stop Blaming and Start Playing: Women Find Your Voice

Stop Blaming and Start Playing: Women Find Your Voice

Trudy Bourgeois challenges women to stop blaming men and each other for keeping us from achieving leadership and equality, and start playing. It’s time to create our individual consciousness and find a shared voice. She says that her recent research shows that throughout history when women inserted themselves into an issue and decided to be […]

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Trudy Bourgeois

Champions for Change

Trudy Bourgeois urges women to become champions for change. Trudy is a renowned and respected authority on leadership development and founder of The Center for Workforce Excellence, which transforms organizations through focusing on developing leadership skills with an emphasis on learning how to develop talent across differences. She built her outstanding reputation by experiencing a

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BE the Change You Want to See in the World

International philanthropist and entrepreneur Mea Boykins may have been born with service in her heart. She started early helping others and her passion developed quickly. While still a junior at Spelman College she founded the Student Emergency Assistance Scholarship to provide funds to two friends who faced expulsion when their money and resources ran out. To

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Patricia Jerido

Make Room for Social Justice

Patricia Jerido has earned her MSW, and served over 30 years as an advocate for social justice, so when she founded Leadership Matters Consulting, she engaged her skills to help those well-intentioned people who wanted to do good but needed a road map and guidance to truly make a difference in the world. She says

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Inspiring Role Models

Inspiring Role Models Support Other Women

In the past few years, I’ve met some of the most inspiring women of my life. These women support other women by reaching out to help them succeed. These advocates for change know that the more women they help up the ladder, the more they will transform outdated ideas and create new possibilities for generations

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Diversity Means All of Us

I recently attended my second Diversity Woman Business Leadership Conference, this year in Baltimore. Once again I welcomed the feeling of inclusion; we are all women coming together to support one another. If I were ever to feel set apart, I might expect this to be the place, where three quarters of the attendees were

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Sheila Robinson Turns Adversity into Opportunity

Sheila Robinson Turns Adversity into Opportunity

Dr. Sheila Robinson is the poster woman for turning adversity into opportunity. As an African American born in the South, she faced barriers based on her looks and background that she didn’t think possible. She focused on solutions, not problems; she looked for ways to make things better and urged others to be the best

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