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Conversations with WE: Step Up & Rise! – IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Hear from Angel Beasley on how she’s been able to step up and rise to new opportunities in her career, family business, and in managing her personal wellness. Learn about what it takes to step up and rise to your fullest potential! Watch the recording here.
WE hosted a panel discussion at NACDS Total Store Expo with Derek Gaskins, Lisa Paley, Jinali Desai, Summer Kerley and Mike Wolf who shared why it’s essential to lead with authenticity professionally, personally, and within our communities.
Click here to read about the panel in Drug Store News
Conversations with WE: Empowered Women, Empower Women – IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Hear from industry leaders who discuss their approach to authentic leadership and why women supporting other women is key to success. Now is the time to advocate for yourself and all women in their career journeys. Watch the recording here.
WE MOVE FORWARD: Next Gen in Our Next Chapter – IN CASE YOU MISSED IT the WE community hosted the fourth in a panel series focused on championing representation and providing mentorship and support for African American women, our greater community at large, and all women and men who want to stand as advocates for racial justice and equity. Watch the recording here.
WE MOVE FORWARD: Supporting African American Entrepreneurship – IN CASE YOU MISSED IT the WE community hosted the third in a panel series focused on championing representation and providing mentorship and support for African American women, our greater community at large, and all women and men who want to stand as advocates for racial justice and equity. Watch the recording here.
Insigniam Quarterly “Impact Players: Women of Courage”
Looking for a way to remember the great information from the last WE Move Forward panel? Here is an infographic with some great content focused on championing representation and providing mentorship and support for African American women, our greater community at large, and all women and men who want to stand as advocates for racial justice and equity. How to be an advocate Infographic 9 23 20 v2
Please watch the second in our panel series focused on championing representation and providing mentorship and support for African American women, our greater community at large, and all women and men who want to stand as advocates for racial justice and equity.
WE created an infographic highlighting key points from the event for you to share with your network to help continue the conversation within our industry.
WE Panel Looks at Developing African-American Talent in Our Industry
Earlier this week, the “WE Move Forward” panel series discussed strategies to develop more African-American talent and growth in the retail and consumer packaged goods industries. Here is the video of the event.
WE MOVE FORWARD: Developing African American Talent in our Industry
A moving conversation among industry leaders discussing strategies to develop African American talent and growth in the CPG industry.
“Conversations with WE – Leading Through A Crisis” – Heather Hughes, Group Vice President & General Manager, Seasonal, General Merchandise & Photo joined Wendy Liebmann for this special session. https://youtu.be/40lPkpcvEUM
“Conversations with WE – Sharing Executive Paths” – Christina Hennington, SVP, GMM Target joined Wendy Liebmann for this special session. https://vimeo.com/376729621
WE board members showed up in force at DSN’s Top Women In Industry event in Chicago last week. Several WE Executive Board and WE Next Gen Board members were among the 140 honorees across the Business Excellence and Rising Star categories, and even more were there to support the range of talent that was showcased at the gala. It was such a wonderful event to network and learn from other successful women!
INDIANAPOLIS — WE, Empowering Women to Advance Wellness, hosted a Wine and Mentoring reception and panel discussion at the GMDC Selfcare Summit 2019 Conference here. The event was sponsored by Navajo Inc. and L&R Distributors. The panel included Casey Huth, sales manager at Hello Products; Paul Gerner vice president of drug/beauty/financial services/optical/health and wellness at H-E-B; and Virginia Pigeaire, business lead, West, at the Emerson Group. The panel was moderated by Alison Castillo, director of industry relations and sustainable living at Unilever.
BOSTON -WE, Empowering Women to Advance Wellness. hosted a reception and panel discussion at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Total Store Expo here last month to highlight mentoring’s role in promoting gender: equality.
By David Pinto
This is a story about Andrea Fallin, a senior executive at Racher Press, publisher of Chain Drug Review. Andrea works on the business side of the business, among those responsible for the advertising revenue that supports CDR and facilitates much of the groundbreaking editorial coverage we like to believe we provide.
Two years ago Andrea articulated the concept that women have an opportunity to play a more critical role in chain drug retailing, on both the retailer and supplier sides of the enterprise.
“You’re too accessible.”
That’s what Susan Zirinsky, the new head of CBS News, was told early in her career — because she was seemingly everywhere at once.
It was during that era that she agreed to meet with a young woman named Hannah Yang, who was on the verge of quitting what she had thought would be her dream job — working for Charlie Rose. She was troubled by the workplace environment and had decided to leave, but was convinced her career in journalism would be over.
By Lindsay Tigar
It’s worth evaluating what’s working for you–and leaving everything else behind.
There are many theories about how long it takes to form a habit. Some say 21 days. Others argue it’s more like 60, or more. Whatever the case, some aspects of our routine are beneficial to our personal and professional growth, while others just slow us down. For leaders who are tasked with not only meeting their own goals but also guiding others, paying attention to negative patterns is essential. That’s why these women, across industries, stopped apologizing. Or adding a “maybe” to every sentence. Or opted to do things their way–even if it wasn’t the “right” way.
What better way to shatter a glass ceiling than by leaving the atmosphere altogether? The first all-woman spacewalk this March is a testament to just how far we’ve come.
Down on Earth, though, we still have a long way to go. Barriers to progress remain frustratingly solid. Governments and businesses continue to introduce initiatives to get more women to the top, yet an EY report demonstrates that progress remains slower than it should be.
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For so long, women have determined career success by their ability to adjust to the male-dominated culture and business processes in their field. Women try to play by the existing rules in the workplace and have the additional hurdle of society’s perceptions of how women should act and be seen. While education and practice are reducing some of the invisible angst of being a woman in a leadership role, there are still challenges to face and overcome. It rests on current women leaders to embrace their role-model status and address those challenges head-on with action and execution.
By Shelley Zalis
I always say a woman alone has power; collectively we have impact. Traditionally we have been taught to be competitive with one another, because there was such a scarcity of jobs at the top. It’s so clear that strategy doesn’t work. The truth is that raising each other up and channeling the power of collaboration is truly how we’ll change the equation—and have a lot more fun along the way.
By Wei Zheng, Ronit Kark, Alyson Meister
A wealth of research shows that female leaders, much more than their male counterparts, face the need to be warm and nice (what society traditionally expects from women), as well as competent or tough (what society traditionally expects from men and leaders). The problem is that these qualities are often seen as opposites. This creates a “catch-22” and “double bind” for women leaders. Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP, depicted it this way: “In the chat rooms around Silicon Valley, from the time I arrived until long after I left HP, I was routinely referred to as either a “bimbo” or a “bitch”— too soft or too hard, and presumptuous, besides.”
DENVER — Diversity in a company’s executive leadership ranks is good for business, research has shown. Those firms with diverse management teams, including more women in top leadership roles, perform better than their peers by a number of measures, including driving greater sales and delivering innovation.
My daughter and I attended a workshop for moms and their middle school daughters a couple of weekends ago. The goal was to keep us on the same team as we enter some complicated years, and the organizer, Michelle Icard, led us through various exercises toward that end.
At one point, she asked the moms to whisper in our daughters’ ears the name of someone who made our lives miserable during middle school. None of us hesitated. Then she asked us to whisper the names of someone who made our lives wonderful during middle school. Again, no hesitation.
PALM BEACH, Fla. — A group of 19 high-profile women in the retail and health care industries formally announced the cre-ation of an organization called WE during a reception at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting here last month.
The message from this year’s National Association of Chain Drug Stores annual meeting was that new approaches are needed to revive a slumbering beauty business.
By Alexis Krivkovich, Marie-Claude Nadeau, Kelsey Robinson, Nicole Robinson, Irina Starikova, and Lareina Yee
Progress on gender diversity at work has stalled. To achieve equality, companies must turn good intentions into concrete action.
Companies report that they are highly committed to gender diversity. But that commitment has not translated into meaningful progress. The proportion of women at every level in corporate America has hardly changed. Progress isn’t just slow. It’s stalled.
You’re doing everything right at work, taking all the right advice, but you’re just not moving up. Why? Susan Colantuono shares a simple, surprising piece of advice you might not have heard before quite so plainly. This talk, while aimed at an audience of women, has universal takeaways — for men and women, new grads and midcareer workers.
This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxBeaconStreet, an independent event. TED’s editors chose to feature it for you.