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Jordanian Female Entrepreneur Creates a Heartwarming Legacy
Like only entrepreneurs can, Afnan Ali found her inspiration in an unlikely place. She observed the unnecessary suffering some of her people endured in Jordan’s winters and thought that there should...
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The Women-Influencers in Our Lives: Who Was Your Example?
Several countries* will celebrate Mother’s Day this week (and others already have this year). We couldn’t help but think about the influence of not only our mothers, but other women who play powerful...
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Woman Entrepreneur Brings Zumba to Dominican Republic
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: Dafnee de Frias is the founder of DAF Fitness Fun in Dominican Republic. I have always liked to dance and to teach. I can say that it’s been my passion since I can remember. I...
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5 Ways to Create a Resume/CV That Gets You Noticed
Last year, a study found that recruiters only spend an average of six seconds looking at a resume. Yikes. The good news is your resume or CV is what you make it. It can be boring and run of the mill....
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Ways That Work: How to Be a Great Employee & Advance
Before you can be promoted, make more money or get a better job, you first have to be great at the job you are in. Here’s what successful women do: Produce: Deliver results that exceed goals and...
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Creating a New Chapter in History: Working Women in Saudi Arabia
What happens when you take one of the most intractable problems in Saudi Arabia and a leading marketing professional in the Middle East with entrepreneurial flair? The creation of Glowork, the first...
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Pioneering & Risk-Taking: Interview with South African Wendy Luhabe
Wendy Luhabe co-founded the first female-owned company to be listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. She has led corporations and provided leadership on corporate boards. She became a social...
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The Global Male Perspective on Mentoring & Sponsorship
Research shows that a critical success variable for upwardly mobile women is a sponsor; this is something I am also repeatedly told by women advancing in the workplace. Given that there are still many...
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African Woman Tech Entrepreneur Develops Software & Women
Called the “unofficial headquarters of Kenya’s tech movement,” iHub began in Nairobi as a business incubator and coworking space in 2010. Angela Oduor joined them as intern. Today, she is increasing...
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How Ishita Gupta Made (Your) Fear Her Business
Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, “You must do the thing you think you cannot do;” these words describe the path to success for Ishita Gupta, which has been paved precisely with doing things that she...
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Why Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets Need to Know BiD Network
This year, a record number of 752 applications from 115 countries poured into BiD Network’s Women in Business Challenge. BiD Network is one of the largest online and offline community of women and men...
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The future of the global workforce is dependent on you - educated women in emerging economies. You are a force to be unleashed – the solution that economies, global businesses and local companies are...
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How to Take Credit for Your Accomplishments
When we posted this photo-quote on Facebook and Twitter, we immediately heard back from women all over the world. Some overwhelmingly endorsed the sentiment, ‘behind every successful woman is herself.‘...
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Mexican Woman CEO Meets Her Greatest Professional Challenge
This year, Lucero Franco took on her greatest professional challenge to-date. A little background: Lucero got her start at IBM more than 25 years ago. Based in Guadalajara, Mexico, she has been happily...
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To Succeed, Change Your Mindset
Wee Yen Lim left her good consulting job and moved from her home in Malaysia to Mexico to start her own business. Yes, you read that correctly: she went to a new country and culture to forge her path...
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Indian Female Urban Planner Makes Cities Safer for Women
Interview by Aparna V. Singh, editor of Women’s Web. An urban planner with a deep interest in Indian cities and making them more equitable spaces, Nithya Raman is also the woman behind Transparent...
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Personal Sustainability in the Pursuit of Success
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: Lavinia Sonnenberg, Founder of Wellness Future Mx and former chair of the Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa (BWASA). I have been involved in the corporate arena and...
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Croatian Entrepreneur Launches ‘The App that Loves Your Boobs’
“The app that loves your boobs” – Sizem - launches this Monday, July 15. After moving back to Croatia from Germany in 2008, it became quickly apparent to Ana Kolarević that she wasn’t going to find a...
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To Become an Entrepreneur, Get Rid of Your TV
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: Unmana Datta is the Co-founder of Markitty. I tell everyone who asks: my husband and I would not have started our business if we hadn’t gotten rid of our TV. Sometime in late 2011, I...
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Interview with Indian Woman Entrepreneur, WomenNow TV Host
Smitha Deepak (right) interviews author Dr. Fouzia Saeed for WomenNow TV. When most kids were hanging out and having a good time, Smitha Deepak was dreaming up business ideas. At 16, she started an art...
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