Today Paul White, President of the DirectEmployers Association Board of Directors and Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition for Mohawk Industries, announced that the Board of Directors unanimously voted to promote Candee Chambers from Deputy Executive Director to Executive Director, effective immediately.
Category: Profiles
How Women in Leadership has Taken NCHS to the Next Level
Since 1997 Irma Cota has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of North County Health Services, a non-profit community health care organization providing health care in the north region of San Diego County.
Combating Disability Discrimination in Higher Education
Lori was a straight A student at high school but after finishing, instead of making applications to attend university, she discovered that she was pregnant. The teen, who also had a disability, took almost two years out to have her child and spend those first months with her daughter. Then she had to decide what […]
Jennifer Barnes: The Queen of Outsourced Accounting
For many business leaders, the ability to handle crisis often means the difference between failure and success. Fortunately, those problems are mostly internal. But, what happens when hundreds of companies rely on your expertise to manage critical projects, improve bottom-line results and provide outsourced accounting and HR assistance? Welcome to the world of outsourced accounting. […]
Dr. Naishu Wang’s Science-Driven Achievements
For Naishu Wang, MD, Ph.D., a proper work-life balance is an essential ingredient for success. So is a limitless reservoir of curiosity, along with a genuine desire to help people. From her time as a doctor in China to her present-day position as the president and CEO of Alfa Scientific Designs Inc., Dr. Wang’s unyielding commitment […]
We Make Our Own Choices
“How do you do it?” It’s a question I’m asked all the time. With all I have on my plate —- kids, family, running a big company, business travel….. How do I stay positive? How do I look so put together? My answer is simple. I do it naturally.
Hope, Healing and Heartfelt Compassion: Meet Camille Cassin, Executive Director of the Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center
In the business world, receiving a helping hand can spur success, inspire achievement and create lasting relationships. For Camille Cassin, a helping hand is often the difference between despair and hope. Ms. Cassin, Executive Director of the Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center, has helped hundreds of San Diego-area women in crisis pregnancies – and the journey […]
How Female Leadership Provided a Spark for TeleDirect
No company that makes a change in leadership takes the decision lightly. The top-down dynamic has a ripple effect that’s hard to measure, and most management shifts produce mixed results. Not so with TeleDirect, a business process outsourcing (BPO) leader. TeleDirect has many women to key positions in leadership roles, with positive results. We asked […]
Insights from Female Entrepreneurs
Two years ago, the BBC hailed “older women entrepreneurs” as “encore entrepreneurs,” often the most successful and promising demographic in a field where failure is 90+ percent.[1] If you’re a woman considering starting a business or building your entrepreneurial brand, it pays (literally) to learn the tough lessons through osmosis. Now that a h
Technology, Tarsier, and Taynah!
Child Prodigy Brings Big Ideas To The Big Apple! Let’s face it: we’re addicts. We can try to deny it, to stuff our phones in our pockets and resist the urge to grab it the second it buzzes, but we all know what’s going on here. Our reliance on technology rivals our reliance on people. […]
6 Women Who Have Attained Incredible Success In the Art World
Similar to many other business sectors, the art world has historically been a male-dominated industry. Women were commonly utilized as objects of focus (a muse), but not partaking in the actual management and creation of art. Fortunately, as the glass ceiling shatters, many women are finding incredibly successful careers in the art world. Included here […]
3 Women Who Have Been Very Successful In Marketing
The business world has long been dominated by males. As appealing as the show “Mad Men” is to many people, it tends to give a skewed impression of women in the workforce. Fortunately, the real world demographic of top paid marketing executives is beginning to change more quickly than the television stereotypes.