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Advancing Women in Tech: Executive Nancy Wang’s Forward-Thinking Nonprofit

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A University of Pennsylvania-trained engineer, Wang has had a meteoric career trajectory that has taken her to positions with the U.S. She also founded, in 2016, a nonprofit membership organization , Advancing Women in Tech, which “accelerates careers and addresses diversity gaps in leadership.” There was that beginning.

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Representation Matters: 5 Tips for Creating a Business Worth Supporting

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When Robert Hartwell first launched The Broadway Collective , a musical theater academy, in 2016, he worked at the kitchen table with his assistant. But he persevered, growing the humble collective into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with award-winning training. Most hung up on him. Now his classes sell out.

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There Still Aren’t Enough Women In Engineering. Here’s What Needs to Change

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Then, when men were hired on, [company leaders] would sit with them and train them and give them all this attention.… She mentors older female students to connect them with women in STEM. “I I would notice that, when I was hired on, it was like, ‘OK, yeah, here: Do this, and we don’t really care how well you do it.’

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Choosing Excellence Every Day

Office Dynamics

If you have a mentoring relationship, share this weekly review by email: this allows you to stay in touch and get feedback without placing a burden on your mentoring partner by requiring their attention “right now.”. For the latter, be sure to also include time to make a personal action plan based on the training.

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Will Pilotworks Become the WeWork of Shared Commercial Kitchens?

Small Business Labs

These spaces also offer training, events, mentoring and access to food specific networking activities.  .  These are spaces where bakers, caterers and other food entrepreneurs can rent, often by the hour, commercial grade kitchen space.   There are hundreds of shared commercial kitchens in the U.S.

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Change Is Hard—Here’s How to Influence People to Get on the Same Page

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The answer might be training or online tutorials, or a mentor or coach working alongside them for a few weeks. This article was published in March 2016 and has been updated. Do they have the knowledge and experiences that give them needed skills?”. How big is the gap?” In some cases, however, the gap may be too big.

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What Kind of Leader Are You: A Fixer, Fighter or Friend?

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If you’re a coach, consultant or mentor to a Friend-type leader, the best way you can help is by holding them accountable for accepting the reality that it’s lonely at the top—whether that’s in the CEO seat or as a leader of a team within a larger organization. Copyright 2016 by Jonathan Raymond. Do you know what I mean?”.

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