Barcelona Brunch in Honor of Ibukun Awosika, Chairwoman, First Bank of Nigeria.
IWEC Past Awardees and Sponsors Gather in Barcelona to honor Ibukun Awosika Hosted at the home of Adela Subirana, Vice Chairwoman, IWEC Foundation Ibukun Awosika is an IESE Graduate and was visiting Barcelona to participate in an IESE presentation and other business matters. Adela brought together several women in [...]
Female Entrepreneurship Driven By Need For Work-Life Balance
Increasingly women are turning to entrepreneurship to combat the growing demands, pressures, and stress of a traditional career.Women (more so than men) are making this choice primarily to create more work-life balance.by Danielle Brooker, Contributor for Forbes, UKPhoto: Co-founders of an online wellness magazine, Shara Tochia, and Hettie Holmes, bonded over [...]
Women Are Critical to Manufacturing’s Future
Women are underrepresented and underutilized in the manufacturing workforce. The Manufacturing Institute will honor 100 women for their contributions to manufacturing, from mechatronics engineers to information technology directors and beyond. by Carolyn Lee | for Industry Week Despite making up about half of all workers overall, they account for [...]
Join us for our next “Women Who Lead” Podcast Presentation!
An Interview with Pingis Hadenius, CEO, Lowengrip, Sweden Led by Charlotte Kalin, MakeTrade, Sweden & IWEC Board Member To join the call, please Register! On Friday May 3rd, at 8:30 am, please join zoom: https://zoom.us/j/3244690031 Join by Telephone For higher quality, dial a number based on your current location. [...]
If Strategy Is So Important, Why Don’t We Make Time for It?
Almost every leader wants to make more time for strategic thinking. In one survey of 10,000 senior leaders, 97% of them said that strategic thinking was the leadership behavior most important to their organization’s success. by Dorie Clark for Harvard Business Review Graphic by JONATHAN-KNOWLES/GETTY IMAGES And yet in another study, a full 96% [...]
Persistence Key to Entrepreneurial Success: An Interview with IWEC Past Awardee, Nadine Cino, TygaBox & TygaTrax
The path to entrepreneurial success is never a straight line. You see opportunity in them thar hills but the path to that opportunity is circuitous and finding it is not a sure thing. by Geri Stengel, Contributor for ForbesWomen The path to entrepreneurial success is never a straight line. [...]
10 Proven Work-Life Balance Tips for Women Entrepreneurs
Learn from other women entrepreneurs about how they manage work-life balance. Set boundaries and learn stress management techniques to have a work-life balance now! By Emily Johnson, Marketing Analyst for Thrive Global The juggle is real. Learn from other women entrepreneurs about how they manage work-life balance. Set boundaries and [...]
Exposing the Top Ten Manufacturing Tech Trends of the 2020s
The next decade will be wrought with technological change across the manufacturing industry. How painful or pleasurable that is depends on what you decide to invest time and energy on today. by John Hitch | Feb 28, 2019 for Industry Week No manufacturer wants to look at 2020 in hindsight full [...]
FEMALE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD
Female heads of state and government around the world The number is growing! Posted by EWN, South Africa / March 31, 2019
‘Women are an untapped source of innovation’ in South Africa
Only about 18.8% of small and medium enterprise (SME) owners are South African women Women remain grossly under-represented among the ranks of entrepreneurs. IOL South Africa DURBAN - Research conducted by Development Economics, on behalf of Facebook, reveals that if all South African women who voiced an interest in [...]