Sentences with phrase «number of business leaders»

Signed by a number of business leaders, the letter said the electorate «voted for change and a chance to have their say».

I've spoken to a number of business leaders, legislative staffers and special interest types who are all talking about how unusually secretive this process has been.

«We did hear from a number of business leaders around the country that changes in trade policy had become a bit of a risk to the medium - term outlook,» Mr. Powell said in the question - and - answer session.

Losi, executive vice president at the accountant firm Piascik, works with a number of business leaders who have built sizeable organizations, and have the opportunity to run their company through telecommuting.

And we have a growing number of business leaders realizing that well - rested employees are better employees.

While just over half of them felt it is «wrong» when such wide income disparities occur, around the same number of business leaders felt income inequality shouldn't be viewed as a problem.

Not exact matches

The WE NYC advisory board includes a number of well - known women business leaders, including fashion designer Norma Kamali, Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, and Shelly Lazarus, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather.

With almost three decades of experience of curating the global business conversation, CNBC remains the number one choice of the world's most powerful business leaders and investors.

Harford is a prominent diversity champion, both in the financial services sector and the wider business community, and served as the co-head of Citi Women and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in business.

As leaders, our job is to shift this number, which not only helps us keep good employees but also improves profitability of the business.

The world's business leaders are confident about going into 2017, despite the large number of political uncertainties, a survey shows.

By adopting these 7 core beliefs shared by an increasing number of consumers, start ups, and business leaders, you can break the old profit - first cycle and crush it in the marketplace — all by simply putting people first.

A more nuanced series of questions revealed the business leaders to be largely in agreement on a number of ownership - related issues.

An increasing number of progressive - minded leaders are beginning to consider looking at this «good for the corporate soul» practice as more of a central line to their strategic business planning.

Nevertheless, like Haskayne, a growing number of Canadian business leaders are sick and tired of watching executives at our big - name corporations play the role of feed keeper in an eat - or - be-eaten world.

He stressed that JP Morgan has a number of «outstanding leaders» across its business and that they will work together «so our company can move forward in confidence.»

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

However, «a number of participants reported that about their conversations with business leaders around the country and reported that trade policy has come a concern going forward for that growth.»

An osteopath with a background in treating elite athletes, Camm is «Personal Health Director to Peter Thiel... and a number of other prominent Silicon Valley business leaders and investors,» according to his professional profile.

Wood is not only one of the most senior employees at Bloomberg, but he also takes time to mentor LGBT staff and has spoken at a number of events, panels, and conferences about being an openly LGBT leader in business.

The student - oriented mission of The Ted Rogers Leadership Centre (TRLC) is to help a substantial number of students develop the core competencies that ethical leaders need to excel in the businesses of today and tomorrow.

To keep a step ahead of emerging scams, the Call Center also collaborates with a number of key leaders and community partners including the Attorney General's Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the Washington State Crime Prevention Association, the Better Business Bureau, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Next week the World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its 48th annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, drawing together a large number of leaders from governments (including President Trump), international organizations, business, academia, and civil society.

He also led major initiatives including the development of a number of centres with key community leaders, including The Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business, The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, The Westman Centre for Real Estate Studies, The Energy ande Environment initiative, and The Creative Destruction Lab — Rockies.

[3] The number of large companies based in California, and those local firms that seek to challenge today's leaders for top position, shows how competitive and active the California business scene is in 2014 and will likely continue for decades to come.

Also present were a number of CEO - level business leaders from some of the largest companies in the Calgary area.

Tech leaders and influencers in their respective areas of expertise will be offering a limited number of private 1:1 meetings with founders who wish to take a deep dive into the challenges facing their startup and gain valuable insight and advice to help build their business.

Whole Kids is recognised as a leader in the organic food industry having received a number of industry awards for product innovation, quality and sustainable business practices.

There are a number of questions arising from this including why do these business leaders choose to support populism instead of something else?

However, they stay away from discussing outside business interests, as a large number of Democratic leaders in the Legislature are attorneys (particularly in the Senate).

GOP senators want a number of issues to be part of any minimum wage package, including lowering workers compensation and unemployment expenses for business, providing tax breaks for small companies and excluding some kinds of employers from the wage increase mandates, said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

He stood outside the Westchester County Center in White Plains Tuesday with several elected officials and business and education leaders, saying Westchester has a number of locations at the ready and is the smartest choice for the e-commerce giant.

«As Assembly Minority Leader, I was encouraged to hear the governor put forward priorities that fall in line with a number of Conference proposals, including: pension forfeitures for convicted officials, a Constitutional Convention, greater resources for our State Police and focus on public safety, tax relief for small businesses, tax credits for teachers, and a substantial investment in education.»

The country's most powerful elected Republicans descended on the district to stump for her — including House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Congressman Paul Ryan, one of Stefanik's political mentors, stumped for her in May)-- while the candidate appeared in an increasing number of slots on cable news and in national media profiles, including the Weekly Standard, the New York Times, CBS News and the Business Insider.

This year, a record number of leaders from government, civil society, indigenous groups, business and academia converged on Oahu to discuss a «planet at a crossroads.»

Reimers says he looked at a number of case studies and evaluations, as well as conducted interviews of business leaders, military officials, and the intelligence community in order to gauge how much change has occurred in foreign area expertise and foreign language over the past 50 years.

Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, parents, students, educators, and advocates turned out for the first legislative hearing on Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to expand the number of charter school seats in school districts with the lowest MCAS scores as well as another proposal that would allow for a state takeover of failing schools.

Developed at the behest of governors, chief state school officers, and business leaders, the standards have been adopted in a large number of states in part as a response to lagging international standing by U.S. students.

Business leaders in the United States say they can't find enough educated or qualified workers due in part to the growing numbers of college students leaving school before earning their degrees, according to new research from Civic Enterprises, a D.C. public policy firm.

ITE leaders and Singapore's economic development officials work in close collaboration to ensure that industries who want to receive special consideration to do business in Singapore will bring a commensurate number of high - paying technical jobs into the economy.

Over the years, one of the mysteries of my school choice advocacy has been the reluctance among many, including a large number of supposedly market sensitive business leaders, to understand and accept the dynamics of competition and how, in a choice environment, these dynamics will produce a supply of quality education alternatives to meet the demand while driving improvement in the public schools.

There were a number of concerns that led state education leaders and the business and higher education communities to call for redesigned high schools.

At a business leader breakfast at EnergySolutions» office, Vice-chair of Prosperity 2020 Keith Buswell, shared the group's 2016 legislative priorities that support goals to improve math and reading scores in 4th and 8th grades, to enable more students to graduate high school, and to support increased numbers of post-high school degrees and certifications.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

The Literary Platform was one of a number of cultural organisations invited to join a British Council Creative Economy delegation of cultural leaders to China, participating in a number of events exploring audience development and new business models in the digital age.

Business leaders write books for a number of reasons:

Although firmly grounded in anecdotes from his time in service, Abrashoff's message was emminently applicable to any type of business and contained a number of useful lessons for the leaders in attendance at the conference.

Today, President Donald Trump met up with a number of politicians and online game business leaders to debate the impression of violent video games on youngsters and whether or not it's linked to gun violence.

Today, President Donald Trump met up with a number of politicians and online game business leaders to debate the impression of violent video games on kids and whether or not it's linked to gun violence.

One environmental and energy lobbyist with close ties to the White House said the administration had been inhibited by a number of factors, including vacancies in many top policy jobs, an intense early focus on the financial and economic crises, and an unwillingness to alienate business and Congressional leaders with a heavy - handed approach.