Posts by WOMEN Unlimited, Inc.
Soccer and Tennis: Why Corporations Need Both
Throughout the year, we invite guest bloggers to share their from-the-field perspectives on inclusiveness and diversity. I’m so pleased to provide you with a number of outstanding and actionable insights from Tom Dybro. –Rosina Racioppi, President and CEO WOMEN Unlimited, Inc. by Tom Dybro Senior Talent Development Consultant Robert W. Baird I am the father…
Read MoreHow Office Politics Can Hold Women Back—and What to Do About it
How Office Politics Can Hold Women Back—and What to Do About it. The hazards of working at a company founded by “a bunch of white guys.” We’ve heard how companies that have women on their boards have higher returns. We’ve heard how groups that include more women have a higher collective intelligence than those that…
Read MoreInclusiveness: Wall Street vs. Main Street
I recently read an article in the New York Times, How Wall Street Bro Talk Keeps Women Down by Sam Polk. As the head of an organization dedicated to the advancement of women, I had to ask myself “Is this really 2016?” The article highlighted the misogyny that still exists on Wall Street, where according…
Read MoreWOMEN Unlimited Inc. Hosts Webinar: What Every Manager Should Know About Fostering Female Talent
New York, NY (PRWEB) April 24, 2016 — WOMEN Unlimited, Inc., the leading provider of organizational solutions and initiatives to empower women as leaders, hosted a webinar entitled “What Every Manager Should Know About Fostering Female Talent” on Thursday, March 17, 2016. Jeffrey B. Fischer, Executive President, Midwest Region Manager – North America Commercial Insurance…
Read MoreDeveloping Female Talent Part 3: High Potential Women’s Perspective
This is the last in my series focusing on the three major players helping women achieve their full potential. We’ve previously looked at managers and mentors. In this blog, I’ll focus on the women themselves. Every year WOMEN Unlimited engages with hundreds of women who participate in our programs throughout the United States and in…
Read MoreVisibility, An Advancement Strategy Women Often Neglect
Many corporate women harbor the misguided perception that their work will speak for itself, which history shows is unlikely, since women make up 51.5 percent of the workforce, but only 8.1 percent of officers in Fortune 500 companies. Additionally, even if a woman’s work tells a story on its own, it may be the wrong…
Read MoreHighlights; An Information-Packed Webinar on Fostering Female Talent
On March 17th, WOMEN Unlimited sponsored a webinar on What Every Manager Should Know About Fostering Female Talent. I had the privilege of moderating a panel of three distinguished executives, each with years of experience helping women on their teams reach their full potential. Our webinar panelists were: Jeffrey B. Fischer, Vice President of the…
Read MoreWOMEN Unlimited, Inc.’s IMpower Experience Helps Emerging Female Talent Move into a Leadership Role
New York, NY, April, 2016 – WOMEN Unlimited, Inc., the leading provider of organizational solutions and initiatives to empower women as leaders, launched its innovative leadership experience IMpower: Grow the Talent That Will Grow Your Company in the Fall of 2015. Program participants and their companies found the IMpower experience helped emerging female talent to…
Read MoreDeveloping Female Talent Part 2: The Mentoring Perspective
Since the inception of WOMEN Unlimited in 1994, we have pinpointed mentoring, along with education and networking, as one of our three pillars for developing female talent. Our involvement with thousands of high potential women and hundreds of mentors has helped forge our perspective on how key mentoring relationships can and should work for BOTH…
Read MoreDeveloping Female Talent Part 1: The Manager Perspective
In my last blog, I talked about the “MEN” in our name “WOMEN Unlimited”, being deliberate because unless men are engaged in the process of inclusiveness, it is doomed to failure. I also have a way of looking at the “M-A-N” in “WOMAN.” I see it as pointing to “MANagers,” both male and female, whose…
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