RALEIGH, N.C., December 27 – Monica Smiley, CEO and publisher of Enterprising Women magazine, has appointed Laura Chiesman,Rebecca Contreras and Renee Pepys Lowe to the Enterprising Women Advisory Board. “Laura Chiesman, Rebecca Contreras and Renee Pepys Lowe are each dynamic business leaders who have achieved phenomenal business success but also are tremendous role models for service to their communities and the advancement of other women. As su...

RALEIGH, N.C., November 3 – Monica Smiley, CEO and publisher of Enterprising Women magazine, has appointed Carolyn Covington, Seema Chawla and Shital Daftari to the Enterprising Women Advisory Board. “Carolyn Covington, Seema Chawla and Shital Daftari each exemplify extraordinary inspiration, perseverance and talent. Enterprising Women is proud to welcome them to lend their leadership to our organization as members of our Advisory Board,” said Sm...

HOUSTON, Texas (Oct. 22, 2021) – Lemonade Day, a national non-profit committed to preparing youth for life through a unique entrepreneurial and experiential program, announced its 2021 National Youth Entrepreneur of the Year: Nine-year-old Brianna Garcia of Harbor City, Calif., who participated in the Lemonade Day Lomita program this summer. “As our founder Michael Holthouse often says, ‘Attributes of a successful entrepreneur correlate to those ...

Stephanie Thompson, STEMpreneur Extraordinaire.“Spiders are cool,” thought seven-year-old Stephanie Thompson who was encouraged by her father to inspect and appreciate the arachnids. That same curiosity has led Stephanie throughout her career. Today, this successful STEMpreneur, Engineering Leader at General Motors, First Robotics Mentor and Founder of STEMwithSTEPH, a popular lay-women social gathering, uses curiosity as a contagion to inspire t...

Percentage of Women on Boards of Wisconsin Top 50 Public Companies Reaches All-Time High;Report Includes First Research on Women of Color on Wisconsin Public Company Boards MILWAUKEE – October 11, 2021…..Milwaukee Women inc (MWi), a nonprofit organization that works to achieve balanced representation of women on boards of directors to maximize the performance of Wisconsin businesses, today released its 18th annual research report, “Making an Impa...

(Elgin, Illinois)— Sept. 22, 2021 –Rieke Office Interiors (ROI) of Elgin, Illinois announced today that The Globee® Awards, organizers of world’s premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named Rieke Office Interiors, a winner in the 9th Annual 2021 CEO World Awards. These prestigious global awards recognize disruptive technologies and innovative solutions that are transforming consumer experiences everywhere. ROI won a Sil...

(Chicago, Illinois & Miami, Florida) Aug. 23, 2021—Latinas Rising Up In HR, a book by Leadership Catalyst Priscilla Guasso presenting inspirational stories of aspiring human resources professionals who overcame obstacles and defied statistics to achieve their dreams in corporate America and in the nonprofit sector and as entrepreneurs announced its six inaugural scholarship winners. The book awarded three college or post-grad student scholars...

LATINA Style Inc., the premier company addressing the needs of Latina professionals and business owners in the United States, proudly announces the LATINA Style 50 Report for 2016. Now in its 19th year, the annual report sets the standard for identifying corporations that are providing the best career opportunities for Latinas in the country. The LATINA Style 50 Report is the most respected evaluation of corporate America's career advancement opp...

Community & Economic Development Leader Vonesha Mitchell Joins as Executive Director; Non-Profit Operations Expert Lamisa Hasan Joins as Program ManagerNEW ORLEANS – July 8, 2021 – The Women’s Business Enterprise Council South (WBEC South), a regional partner organization of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), announces that it has launched the Women’s Business Center South in Memphis, Tenn. The U.S. Small Business Admin...

MINNEAPOLIS (June 22, 2021) -- Meda (Metropolitan Economic Development Association) has opened up applications for its fourth annual Million Dollar Challenge for Minority Entrepreneurs. The Meda Million Dollar Challenge is the largest BIPOC entrepreneurial competition in the country, awarding $1 million in financing to BIPOC businesses from across the nation. This year’s competition will be a hybrid model with applications and finalist bootcamps ...

WBE Canada and experts from the Universities of Manitoba and Calgary conducted a national survey on the status of supplier diversity in Canada. This survey, conducted in fall 2020, was designed to provide the data necessary to continue inclusion of underrepresented Canadian businesses, specifically women-owned businesses in large supply chains and to move supplier diversity forward in Canada.The survey was primarily focused on WBE Canada certifie...

Today, Women Business Enterprises Canada Council (WBE Canada) announced the launch of ‘Tools For Growth’ – The Resource Library for Women Owners Ready To Scale Up Their Business – a promising new initiative designed to support the growth and success of Canadian women-owned businesses.In Canada, 15.6% of all Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are owned by women (2017)¹. Though some of these businesses have made considerable progress over ti...