You can really capture the emerging power being wielded by women using their human capital networks in the world of business and power in Pamela Ryckman's just released book: Stiletto Network: Inside the Women's Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business. It is coming "on the heels" (pun...

I am so gratified to read all the activity around the Innovating Women project created by Vivek Wadhwa as a part of the Singularity University initiative together with Google For Entrepreneurs. Not only am I a devotee of Singularity, I have been pursuing the success of women in science and...

Common wisdom holds that any good leader must be a visionary: without vision, a company won't know where it is going or how to get there. A good leader creates a vision and communicates that vision very clearly to her followers, so that there are established expectations from the top...

For decades, John Zenger and Joseph Folkman have analyzed the leadership traits that lead to success. These include characteristics such as integrity, initiative, and problem solving.

Additionally, Zenger and Folkman designed tools to test these qualities, and made a somewhat startling discovery...

... Women outscore men...

So Proves the Latest Global Study: The Athena Doctrine

Leadership in the 21st century requires more of the attributes held by women. Thanks to the herculean efforts of two highly regarded researchers, John Gerzema and Michael D'Antonio, we now know this to be a fact. The team interviewed...

Women living in rural areas of Africa and India are getting a boost into entrepreneurship by Coca Cola's Mutar Kent teaming up with inventor Dean Kamen to distribute clean water distillers.

At the Women in the World Conference, chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company...

Morgan Stanley Promotes the Power of Three

Getting more women on boards is a hotly debated subject in financial circles around the globe. Some countries have regulated quotas, such as Norway, the country that let the way with a quota requiring that 40 percent of the board members...

Do you feel like you are the only one that gets passed over for promotions? Why did the guy at the next desk get his and not me?

Believe it or not, this feeling wafts through the atmosphere at companies every day. How do you break the cycle of feeling...

One of the most frequently asked questions I get from women in corporate positions and from entrepreneurs alike is how to find the right mentor. We have seen a rise of discussion about mentorship in business circles of all kinds in recent years. Yet it seems that finding the right...

Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg's just released book meant to encourage women to seek leadership roles, has set the social media sites on fire. But I, for one, am grateful that she has set the issue of women's leadership front and center on the national agenda.

This is...

I was in Australia last week with our Springboard team to launch our inaugural accelerator program for women entrepreneurs raising equity capital. This is a historic moment. Springboard Australia Chairman, Wendy Simpson has assembled a host of supporting organizations to bring our...

This is straightforward advice your mother never told you.

Let me be clear, Natalie Pace's book The ABCs of Money is not for women only. But I think women will love this book. Why? I think many women get themselves in financial trouble simply because they have never really...

I first met Ping Fu at Springboard Enterprises, the growth accelerator that teaches women to raise venture capital. She presented her company, GeoMagic, an imaging and 3D printing company for growth capital headquartered in Morrisville, NC. She intrigued me enormously as one of a...

I am always fascinated by the wisdom of shared experiences. It's what we call human capital. This March 14th I will have the opportunity to share some of my own experiences in building a multi-billion dollar business, USA Networks, and life transitions with women gathering at The Bryant...

I am thrilled that New York has taken the lead on new gun control legislation. Importantly, the NY SAFE Act received bipartisan support. It was passed and signed in the second day of the 2013 legislative session with a significant majority in both the House and the Senate. Governor Cuomo...

One of the best days of my career:

It was early March of 2003 and my husband Bill and I were in New Zealand for a venture capital forum and to meet with Prime Minister Helen Clark. We also witnessed the America's Cup Races and visited a sheep farm,...

Ever since the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, we have seen a pick-up in the number of mass killings -- at least double each year, according to a report published by Mother Jones. What is more disturbing is the escalation of these mass murders over...

See the Effects of Global Warming in Film: Chasing Ice

You'll see no more dramatic evidence of the effects of climate change than is clearly visible in the film Chasing Ice, produced and directed by Jeff Orlowski. It tells the compelling story of

What makes an effective corporate board is the question on the minds of many CEO's and board members headed to the Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs today sponsored by Ernst & Young. The topic surfaces on any number of a panels and embedded in keynote...

It has occurred to me repeatedly these last two weeks since Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York City and left others relatively untouched that Sandy has divided our city. Walking through Central Park on Sunday, I saw thousands of people: families with small children racing their sail boats in...