Women Business Leadership

From the president of EMILY's List, a playbook for women changing the world in politics, business, or any arena, with a foreword from Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris. Run to Win is for all women who are looking to lead. Organized around the steps that EMILY's List coaches its candidates through (from deciding to run through celebrating victory), this book is full of essential lessons for any woman trying to succeed in a male-dominated field. Their arena is politics but their message is universal.

For women over 50, this invaluable guide combines practical advice, exercises, and no shortage of sass that will inspire listeners to beat ageist limitations and own their careers.

Women comprise 51 percent of the world's population, make up over half of the workforce, and control 85 percent of consumer decisions. It's estimated that two thirds of the nation's wealth will be in women's hands by 2030. Never before have women been so degreed or so represented as decisionmakers in all areas of influence.

In her book, Olive shares with us the highs and lows of her business journey; how she has triumphed in the face of adversity and continued to run a successful business through a global recession to be awarded an MBE in 2019. Olive’s personal journey sees her develop resilience and self-confidence and become the successful businesswoman she is today. She has shared a lifetime of wonderful wisdom in a book to inspire us to all to aim higher.

Are you ready to become a leader at the top of your game? Start by unlocking the secrets which will bring you unyielding success! Women Who Lead is an easy-to-understand guide offering tips to achieve your dreams. Learn from successful female mentors who will show you the process, step by step! These women are influential leaders in their niches, earning the respect and income they deserve. These distinguished trainers and top professionals share their favorite methods and formulae they’ve used to become the top names in their industries while balancing their daily lives.

Breaking Through "Bitch" takes an innovative, sometimes controversial approach, using stories from executives at the highest corporate levels to show how women can hone their innate skills, rise to the top, and be effective, outstanding leaders. It addresses head-on why women cannot and should not "act like men."

100 Powerful and Insightful Quotes from some of the world's most influential past and present global female leaders.

Are you caught in a cycle of confusion, uncertainty, and pain? Knocked Down, Set Straight will take you on a transformational journey of turning your life's pain into your ultimate gain! In this hilarious guide to mindfulness, spiritual teacher and thought leader Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, Esq. serves up ways to balance your mind (IQ), heart (EQ), and soul (SQ) and merge them into what she eloquently explains as the aggregate intelligence quotient (AQ)™.

Equal but Different is based on my doctoral thesis, which investigated the intersection of race, gender, and social class in women leaders' career progression. The women leaders came up with strategies for gender transformation at leadership level. The audiobook presents life stories of women leaders in South Africa and abroad and men who believe in gender equality and have contributed toward this goal.

This book doesn’t care about your job title. (It doesn’t really care if you call yourself a leader.) It does care that we move on from talking about grit, resilience, gravitas, confidence, and commerciality as if that’s the way we create the world we’re longing for. It cares that we stop walking ourselves into burnout or choosing to die in a ditch over things that don’t matter much at all. It cares that we stop treating work as a daily battle. It deeply cares that we learn how to apply more heart and wisdom to what we do.

Though women hold a majority of the managerial and professional jobs in the workforce, they occupy a mere 14 percent of C-suite positions at Fortune 500 firms. To break through this stubborn glass ceiling, women must learn to take bold steps when career-defining moments arise. During her 33-year career at Southern Company, a Fortune 500 utility company, Becky Blalock became CIO in a traditionally male industry. Now she offers her own hard-won advice, as well as that of 28 top female executives, to show all aspiring women how to dare to reach high tier of leadership and C-suite roles.

The words you choose can make or break a situation. And the way you use your words (and your body language) can either help or hurt your business relationships. I know firsthand. Navigating difficult situations (bad reviews, negative feedback, hateful coworkers, unruly vendors, demanding clients, etc.) is a daily practice for entrepreneurs. And I believe that learning to handle any situation that comes your way can be the difference between a profitable, successful business and a business that is stuck, struggling, and failing. If you feel the same way, then this book is for you!

On 9 October 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up and proceeded to make all present in Parliament House that day pay attention—and left many of them squirming in their seats. The incisive 'misogyny speech', as her words came to be known, challenged not only Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, on his words and actions but, over time, all of us. How had we come to condone the public and private behaviours of some very public men? In this book, Julia Gillard explores the history and culture of misogyny.

Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures - at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, both large and small. So why is there a lack of clear-cut, expert advice aimed at this dynamic female audience?

Brand Renegades shows listeners how to develop a nontraditional success formula to disrupt and innovate their industry. Club Tattoo founders and industry disruptors Sean and Thora Dowdell share their experience as a woman-run company in the male-dominated world of tattoos and piercings. The lessons taught in this book are about learning to admit failure and learning to fail forward.

What if the leadership practices we’ve worked so hard to master are now getting in the way? In fact, what if they are actually holding us down and preventing us from leading for growth and innovation? Forget “what if” - it’s happening. In Leadership Unchained, Sara Canaday offers a unique perspective that helps modern leaders break free from the chains of conventional wisdom and blaze new trails toward even greater success.

What if you could achieve more in business without burning out or adding anything to your plate? Sounds like a dream, but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re in business leadership or management, the pressure to succeed is great. Working long hours and leading a team often takes a massive toll on your health, draining you of fresh vision and effective leadership. Unfortunately, too many leaders ignore the signs of burnout and stress, running on empty until something goes wrong. But you don’t have to wait for your personal or work life to fall apart. As a business leader, it’s vital to ...

Negotiating in a business setting can be stressful and challenging no matter who you are, but women in the workplace face unique challenges (and possess unique skills). With this book, you'll get a complete primer on how to effectively negotiate in a variety of important situations.

As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country, but it was an unconventional path to the top. Wise, warm and inspiring, Spider Woman shows how the law shapes our world and supports us in crisis. It is the story of how Lady Hale found that she could overcome the odds, which shows that anyone from similar beginnings will find that they can cope, too.

Gloria Romero - former California Senate Majority Leader and Professor Emeritus of psychology - shatters the glass ceiling in a sweeping takedown of gender bias at the workplace and the price women and society pay for the virulent, double standard of “the likability factor” that persists in the workplace. She exposes the link between success and likability that 21st-century women leaders face in politics and the workplace.