By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
“Education is continuous. The day I stop learning is the day I’ll die,” said Elizabeth Schneider, the managing director at Citisoft.
She credits her mother for instilling this value in her. “My mother was the oldest of nine children in a very poor family. My mother, who barely [...]

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By Elizabeth Harrin (London)
Would you attend a summit called ‘Finding Your Passion and Living Your Purpose’? Plenty of female employees at AXA Equitable did. “We thought that women at AXA would benefit from working together to create opportunities to do more – for themselves and for the company,” says Barbara Goodstein, Executive Vice [...]

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By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
“You have to set goals—even if they are little goals—to achieve something. Every day set a goal,” said Laura Bissell, Managing Director of Okapi Partners. She spent her childhood watching her mother, a well-known interior designer in Boston, do just that, growing her fledgling business into a booming [...]

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By Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
Four law firms made the Working Mother magazine Top 100 companies this year. Considering the legal profession’s reputation, this is encouraging news.
Washington, D.C.-based Arnold & Porter is on the list for the tenth time, and the sixth consecutive year. Says Managing Partner, Richard M. Alexander, “Working mothers are a vital part of [...]

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By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
A career in music requires discipline, years of study, and a desire to perform. Trained early as a classical pianist, Virginia Gambale was well on her way. “My first ‘job’ [as a child] was to take apart a complex Fugue. I had to concentrate for hours at [...]

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Contributed by Martin Mitchell of the Corporate Training Group.
The U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer’s pre-budget report includes a 50% levy on bank bonuses of more than £25,000. Barack Obama plans to utilise the $200bn of unused Tarp funds to boost job creation. Japan announced a Y7,200bn stimulus package to help the country’s economic recovery. These [...]

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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
It’s an unfortunate fact that there are certain things in life that must be re-taught after years of plugging away at work, giving all of ourselves to our employers and families, and going months without a serious break of any kind.
Sometimes we must re-learn how to take care of ourselves, how [...]

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By Elizabeth Harrin (London)
Earlier this year Sir David Walker was asked by the UK Government to examine corporate governance in the banking industry. His consultative report was released in July and caused a stir with its far-reaching recommendations about the role of non-executive directors, the establishment of board risk committees and remuneration. There [...]

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By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
Dr. Sherry Cooper, Executive Vice-President and Global Economic Strategist of BMO Financial Group, was destined for the world of finance. An entrepreneur from an early age, Dr. Cooper said, “When I was 12, I spent the summer babysitting. But I didn’t just watch one child. I would [...]

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By Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
The Institute of Leadership and Management, a UK-based organization that helps companies improve standards of leadership as well as individual and team performance, recently released a research report titled, “Index of Leadership Trust 2009.”
The report looked at six areas by which leadership is measured: ability, understanding, fairness, openness, integrity and consistency and [...]

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