Sentences with phrase «leading women executives»

Brooks Kushman Shareholder, Sangeeta Shah was recently recognized by Profiles in Diversity Journal as one of its «Women Worth Watching in 2009,» a feature that celebrates the achievements and personalities of leading women executives.

The Sara Kirke Awards for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recognizes leading women executives who have shown the most outstanding technological innovation and corporate leadership — leadership that has significantly expanded the frontiers of Canada's advanced technology industry.

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And this concerted, targeted effort led by CEO Klaus Kleinfeld resulted in a 3.2 percentage point bump in executives and a 2.7 percentage point increase in women in professional and plant manager roles.

In addition, 40 percent of executives leading $ 1 billion - plus businesses within the company are women.

Kirstine Stewart was the first woman to hold the position of Executive Vice-President of CBC's English services — often called the most powerful job in Canadian broadcasting — and was the first Managing Director of Twitter Canada, leading Canadian operations as well as advertising business and partnerships.

These employees, who call themselves State Street's «Leading Women,» are committed to grooming more executives like them.

«We firmly believe that a diversity of perspectives leads to better decisions and helps drive corporate performance,» says Steve Williams, CEO of Suncor, whose 12 - member board includes three women and a First Nations executive, and factors in age, gender, ethnicity and aboriginal status in filling vacancies.

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

Orange County Convention Center — Orlando, FL --- More than 3,500 executives from the nation's leading corporations, government entities, and women business owners will converge in Orlando, FL to generate business opportunities and stimulate economic growth at the 2016 Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) National Conference & Business Fair from June 21 twomen business owners will converge in Orlando, FL to generate business opportunities and stimulate economic growth at the 2016 Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) National Conference & Business Fair from June 21 tWomen's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) National Conference & Business Fair from June 21 to 23.

WASHINGTON — The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) will convene over 3,500 executives from the nation's leading corporations, government entities and Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) to generate business opportunities and stimulate economic growth at the 2015 WBENC National Conference & Business Fair in Austin, TX, June 23 - 25.

We do this by matching thirty - six extraordinary women per year with purpose - driven, paid internships at leading aviation and space companies and organizations and with senior and executive level mentors.

Women@Austin was hatched last Fall when several of Austin's most experienced female entrepreneurs and executives came together and decided they wanted to do something proactive to bolster women's ratios in Austin business — to make the city of Austin the most accessible, nurturing place for women - led businesses in the country.

Multiple studiesand reports during the past seven years alone have found that companies led by women or with women on the executive team outperform those that don't.

Multiple studies and reports during the past seven years alone have found that companies led by women or with women on the executive team outperform those that don't.

In an effort to bring some added focus and momentum to the issue, we've recently joined forces with Women in Capital Markets and the Women's Executive Network — two leading advocacy groups in Canada — to promote and support gender diversity in investment management.»

I attend a church where a woman is the Executive Pastor but most people in the church don't know she's the Executive Pastor because her Lead Pastor is a guy and he does most of the preaching and most of what you would see the Lead Pastor do but at the same time the Lead Pastor is having to submit to the leadership of the Executive Pastor.

Several companies and organisations led by chief executives who have vowed to do more to promote women in business and the public service failed to make a list of the best Australian employers of women.

Confirmed speakers also include an industry line - up of leading professional women: Karen Betts, Chief Executive, Scotch Whisky Association; Jan Jones Blackhurst, EVP, Public Policy & Corporate Responsibility, Caesars Entertainment; Sue Knowles, Marketing & Admin Director, Costco UK & UK Chair LEAD (Leading Executives Advancing Diversity); and Stephanie Macleod, Master Blender, John Dewar & Sonleading professional women: Karen Betts, Chief Executive, Scotch Whisky Association; Jan Jones Blackhurst, EVP, Public Policy & Corporate Responsibility, Caesars Entertainment; Sue Knowles, Marketing & Admin Director, Costco UK & UK Chair LEAD (Leading Executives Advancing Diversity); and Stephanie Macleod, Master Blender, John Dewar & SonLeading Executives Advancing Diversity); and Stephanie Macleod, Master Blender, John Dewar & Sons Ltd..

«For 17 years, Cynthia Nixon has been a leading voice and on - the - ground fighter for public education, women's rights, LGBTQ equality, and protecting New York's environment from corporate polluters,» said the group's executive director, Charles Chamberlain.

Ms. Quinn, who has emerged as a leading surrogate for Mr. Cuomo, promised to deliver the pledge — which asks lawmakers across the state to support the passage of all 10 points of the controversial Women's Equality Act, which has died in two consecutive sessions — to Mr. Astorino in Midtown, where he is fund - raising with retired business executive Carly Fiorina.

A monster lead among women voters powers him past Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino,» said Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

The pre-taped panels, which will air on the three consecutive Sundays leading up to September 9th primary elections, are presented in collaboration with the League of Women Voters of the City of New York and moderated by Ben Max, Executive Editor of Gotham Gazette, and Marlene Peralta, Senior Political Reporter at El Diario.

In the final days leading up to tomorrow's election, Republican Rensselaer County executive candidate Steve McLaughlin is making a concerted push to appeal to women voters with a mailer that features three of his female constituents praising his efforts to assist them from his current post in the Assembly GOP conference.

A 32 percentage point lead among women propels New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to a 51 - 31 percent lead over Westchester County Executive, Rob Astorino, the Repulican challenger, with 9 percent for Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

The honorees were: Anti-Violence Project executive director Sharon Stapel; Joselyn Mendoza, an undocumented transgender woman from Queens who led -LSB-...]

Michael D. Rodriguez, a Latino progressive from Commissioner Jesus «Chuy» Garcia's neighborhood and committeeman of the 22nd ward, was elected as executive vice chair of the Cook County Democratic Party; a post previously held by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who just rose as the first African - American and woman elected to lead the Democratic party in the county.

«The finding from this observational study that women who underwent menopause at a later age and used oral hormone therapy had greater hearing loss was unexpected but should lead to more testing in a randomized, clinical trial,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.

That philosophy has led Cecilia Muñoz to the role of point woman, as domestic policy council director, for President Obama's dramatic recent executive initiatives for immigration reform (among many other policy issues).

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The film runs for a taut 83 minutes, and part of what's impressive about it is how economically, in a wholly unobtrusive way, it sets up the conflict between the two leading characters, an executive and a woman roughly half her age.

Witness the first public screening of this all - new film, then stay for an entertaining panel led by executive producer Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series); Tamara Taylor (Bones), voice of Wonder Woman; C. Thomas Howell (E.T., Southland), voice of Dr. Will Magnus; Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds), voice of Lois Lane, director Sam Liu; co - producer / screenwriter Alan Burnett; dialogue directorAndrea Romano; and members of the voice cast.

The streamer's FYSee space at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, Calif., was home to two such important conversations on Saturday — «leading the charge,» moderated by Variety's own Jenelle Riley, featured powerful women in front of the camera, including Alison Brie («GLOW»), Danielle Brooks («Orange Is the New Black»), Sarah Gadon («Alias Grace»), and Regina King («Seven Seconds»); Variety «s executive editor of TV, Debra Birnbaum, moderated a panel with those behind the camera — showrunners and «shot callers» Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch («GLOW»), Marta Kauffman («Grace and Frankie»), Gloria Allred («Seeing Allred»), Veena Sud («Seven Seconds»), Melissa Rosenberg («Marvel's Jessica Jones»), and Netflix's own vice president of original series Cindy Holland.

Executive: But if a movie has a woman in the lead, it stops being a movie for everyone and becomes a movie just for ladies that I will get cooties if I touch.

On Aug. 28 Richards tweeted to Matt Bomer and actor Mark Ruffalo, who is an executive producer of Anything, «[I] f you release this movie, it will directly lead to violence against already at risk trans women.»

And they're going to talk about just that: the issues and implications that swirl around the fact that in international publishing, although the main part of the workforce might be female, the executive suites are rarely led by women.

Past presenters include Leigh Cunningham - Executive Director of the Association of Independent Authors (AiA), Dete Meserve - president of Wind Dancer films (Home Improvement, What Women Want with Mel Gibson), Steven Spatz - President of BookBaby (industry leader in author services), Burke Allen - CEO of Allen Media Strategies (industry leading P.R. and media firm for authors), Eddie Price - marketing expert and successful self - published author, Darlene Chan - Hollywood publicist that specilizes in promoting independent authors, and Mark Wayne Adams - multiple award - winning illustrator, Readers» Favorite Illustration Award Judge, former Disney artist, and former president of the Florida Authors and Publishers Association.

Moderator Charlotte Abbott led off by reciting a number of alarming facts about the paucity of women in executive positions, the gender and diversity gap, and other matters («On the bright...

Ronne Hartfield, former Woman's Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education, led the three artists through an exciting discussion about their artwork and family dynamic.

They include Paulette Brown of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, who co-authored the landmark 2006 report, Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms; R. Ted Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic to be Texas solicitor general and author of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels of Quarles & Brady, one of the first African - Americans to lead a top U.S. firm; Keith M. Harper of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC at Sara Lee, spearheaded the Call to Action urging corporate law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU.

She has worked in more than 100 countries and is recognized as an influential leading executive in the NGO sector and has been named one of Canada's Most Powerful Women.

«Despite the tireless advocacy of Indigenous women and Indigenous - led organizations, BC has yet to do its part to carry out the CEDAW Committee's 2015 recommendations on violence against Indigenous women,» says Kasari Govender, West Coast LEAF's Executive Director.

Legal Executive Leadership, LLC («LEL») is a woman - owned business, conceived in 2011, and led by its founder and CEO, Susan Hackett.

However, while men and women fear working flexibly could damage their career, the majority of professionals concur it has helped improve the representation of women in executive and leadership roles and that the implementation of flexible hours has lead to significant gender equality.

We inspire, engage, coach and educate executives, emerging leaders, salespeople and women — at leading global organizations — so they can deliver on the corporate brand promise in a way that is authentic to them.

One common source of relationship difficulties is when a woman is hyper - focused on the details of her present feelings, and she needs to be listened to and validated by her partner, but since he is thinking about the executive tasks of the relationship, he thinks she is calling to his attention a global problem, and feels criticized and that his lead is not being accepted.

As NRDC acquired Lord & Taylor about three years after Macy's merged with Federated Department Stores and became more geared toward middle - income consumers, Lord & Taylor executives saw an opportunity to become the leading department store player for slightly more upscale, classic department store customer — the suburban woman.

April 13, 2018SAE Internati onal convened a panel of leading female executives and innovators to discuss how women are helping to lead change and shape the future of the global automotive engineering industry.