A female friend of mine who teaches people how to fly told me years ago about the big difference between her male and female students. The male students almost always need to get their skill level up to their confidence level, while the female students inevitably need to get their...

As I approached my 60th Birthday this week, I was reflecting on how little people change their basic nature over a lifetime. I've been called the "B" word for as long as I can remember, but it is not the one you might be thinking right now that rhymes with...

Once again, President Obama has demonstrated his clear confidence in women leaders. He has entrusted the physical safety of his family to a woman. Last week, Julia A. Pierson became the first woman to lead the Secret Service.

With over 30 years of experience in a still...

After agreeing that we want both the youngest-ever female CEO of a Fortune 500 company to succeed in turning Yahoo! around, Christine Romans and I had a fascinating conversation this past Saturday before, during and after our segment on her CNN show "Your Bottom Line." We...

As we roll into Women's History Month each year, I like to take stock of how we're doing and it appears that our ability to do pull-ups and to "lean in" to our careers are part of the next phase of the working women's movement.

Already in the first quarter...

As much as I love what I do, I have to admit that I was hoping for a snow day last Friday in the wake of all the Nemo hype. No such luck. I awoke to emails from both of my early appointments saying game on.

First stop was...

Another Veterans Day has come and gone but it's time for us to realize that honoring all veterans should be something we are doing on a regular basis. This includes the important role women in uniform play in protecting our country. Although it's a page missing from a lot of...

An economic recovery is happening. Slowly, but it's happening. Depending on which side of the aisle you're on, there are a number of different theories about what can make this turn around move faster. Regardless, there is one area that everyone agrees on: women business owners and the need for...

Kimberlie Cerrone has a lot of start up experience, on the business front and otherwise. She's managed two IPOs and been involved at the C-Level with no less than eight start ups. More than twenty years ago, Kimberlie was in law school and raising two kids and her...

What do women have who are leaders in their own life?

They have a plan. You can have a plan too.

Last week in Las Vegas at the launch of The Adelante Movement, led by my...

At some point, every entrepreneur comes to a crossroads, the point where she must take stock of her business and decide if they want to just be in business and remain in survival mode or if they want to take it to the next level. It's a daunting task --...

Heard the one about Jack Welch at The Wall Street Journal "Women In the Economy" forum? In case you haven't, here's a brief recap: On May 2, 2012, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch (and his wife and writing partner, Suzy Welch) spoke to a gathering of women...

Fantastic news from The Wall Street Journal: More companies are grooming more women for the CEO's chair. Finally!

According to a recent study they conducted with McKinsey & Company, nearly 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies have at least one female executive officer....

Recently, I had the great pleasure of meeting Jeff Unger, founder of the innovative legal services firm eMinutes, through a mutual friend, Romy Taormina, a Count Me In Awardee and the co-founder and "Nausea Relief Chief" of Psi Health Solutions. Jeff and I got to talking...

Back in 1992, I was approached by the Ms. Foundation for Women to help create a program to enhance girls' self-esteem. They'd seen a campaign I'd done a year earlier around the 10-year anniversary of the AIDS epidemic, where, among other things, we distributed 100,000 condoms on the...

We are smack in the middle of Women's History Month, and there's tons of happy news to report from the XX chromosome contingency! Now is a fantastic time to be a business leader, because so many of us are in positions where we can employ and help other women.
...

Ah, technology. I love it. It has made my life so much easier; I'd be lost without my Blackberry, which allows me to travel the world and stay connected at the same time. Sadly, my beloved little gadget is pretty much going the way of the pterodactyl, which means I'm...

It's that time of year again, when we all vow to stop working like maniacs and start exercising more and be kinder to ourselves. And for a few weeks we might actually succeed. But then we all know what happens: We loosen the reins a bit and we start to...

Next month I'll be traveling to Santa Monica to help launch an exciting new initiative - The Coca-Cola Tour: Adelante. It's a series of live forums and an online movement designed to inspire young Latina moms - one of the fastest growing groups of influencers in the United...

This is a story about the potential ordinary Americans have to make a difference when it comes to job creation, and we have Starbucks to thank for it.

In case you haven't heard, Starbucks has teamed up with Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the national network...