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Editorial Editorial Editorial Trailblazer Women Creating New Workspace In The Business World
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iven an opportunity, everybody is an opportunist. So if we want to scrutinize the idea, as to whether the women today have equal opportunities or not, then yes, things are certainly changing. Today time definitely is right to be female. A considerable number of empowerment groups and opinions have now burgeon within the community in most developed countries appreciable than ever. Government and corporate sectors are now implementing more mature policies to address issues like harassment, equal pay, and gender gap etc. Such policies would definitely help women furthermore to enter the workforce. “Women make great leaders because they have an innate ability to dream big, challenge assumptions, and inspire teams—and they also know how to ameliorate big ideas into concrete action and results,” says Angela Dejene, executive vice president of Crosswind Media and Public Relations. Today’s women are redefining leadership. And women in leadership are linked to better financial performance. Organizations that consist of at least 30% of women are 1.4 times more likely to experience sustained and profitable growth. The Leaders Globe Magazine is introducing “The 10 Most Successful Business Women Leaders in 2019” housing the women conquering the world in a different spectrum of professions and rippling through Business, Tech, Entertainment, Philanthropical and Political spheres alike. Actually, more than 75 percent of the business is male-dominated worldwide but when it comes to more effective leadership, women dominate this chart as concluded by data analysis. This analysis also claims that women have a larger appetite for growth and when all statistics are compared, women actually outperform their male counterparts. Each of these women leaders are trailblazers in the traditionally male-dominated fields like Aerospace, Defense Industry, Internet Security, Transport, Sports, Consultancyand many more to add. Through their careers, these women have proven that determination, intelligence, hardwork and the extra analysis and critique of their work has helped them rise to the top along with their families. Each one of them has earned widespread respect not just for her accomplishments as a woman, but also as a true leader.
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Cover Story The Woman, The Leader
Ainsley Braun A Defender of the Cyber Realm
Ellen Voie
A Pathbreaker In Trucking Industry
Gender Gap Does Gender Gap Restraining Women from Global Clout?
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Marillyn Hewson A Legend in Aeronautics & Defence Industry
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Leader’s Perspective Sheri Atwood Founder & CEO of SupportPay
Maureen Huber An Ardent For Technology
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Ainsley Braun Co- founder & CEO
Trust Yourself: Encouraging for Women Ainsley’s advice to other women is trust yourself. According to Ainsley, women are stronger than how the media portrays them. And she suggests women shouldn’t be afraid of nding a strong voice in a eld where they tend to be disadvantaged. Trust your gut and don’t be afraid to show your technical knowledge. Catching people off guard and surprising them will always give you the upper hand. Her advice for women entrepreneurs, “Don’t wait. There are so many support networks for female founders now. You’ll be ne. The worst that can happen is you’ll end up exactly back where you are today, but with 10000x the amount of knowledge as before.”
easier to tackle small pieces with logic than it is to tackle overwhelming problem that instills fear.”
‘Failures Are Great Lessons’ While asking about what she would do differently if she got the chance to restart her career, Ainsley said she would hope to have the common sense to focus on product-market t earlier, but she feels every mistake they’ve made has been a learning experience. She thinks that we can’t learn without failure.
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Ellen Voie
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one are the days when traditional professions were the only career options for women. Today, women have advanced in elds that were traditionally known as men's domain. Many women are pioneers in gendersegregated occupations; Ellen Voie is one of them. She is the founder of the Women In Trucking Association, a nonprot organization with the mission to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles faced by women working in the industry. "A leader needs to be honest, humble and must possess integrity. You can't be a leader if you aren't candid with your staff, your members and your board of directors. Without integrity, we won't be able to build a positive reputation, and a humble leader gives credit to those around her and never thinks she's the smartest person in the room," expressed Ellen. She added, "While I've been involved in the trucking industry my entire career, I've never been a professional driver. I started in management at a steel fabricating plant, and while I raised my children, I was a free-lance consultant to trucking companies. I earned my adiploma in Trafc & Transportation Management, so I could read tariffs, audit freight bills, and logbooks as well as keep the trucks and the drivers in compliance."
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I would encourage women to venture out and follow their passion. Make sure you are doing something you enjoy, otherwise it won't be fun and you'll burn yourself out. — Ellen Voie
Ellen Voie earned her diploma in Trafc and Transportation Management in 1980 from LaSalle Extension University and in 2005 the Certied Association Executive (CAE) credential from the American Society of Association Executives. Ellen also completed the Women In Trucking Professional Development Certication. In July 2012 Ellen was honored by the White House as a Transportation Innovator Champion of Change. She received the 2015 "Distinguished Alumna of the Year" award from her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Division of Communication.
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Mission Of The Association After high school Ellen went to school to become a broadcast journalist, but once she entered the trucking industry, she found a group of honest, hard-working men and women who keep this country moving. Ellen started the Women In Trucking Association while she was working for a large carrier in the Mid-west. She was looking for ways to attract and retain nontraditional groups, which included women. Ellen felt that women in the industry needed a voice, so in 2007she formed the nonprot organization. Ellan also founded the Women in Trucking Foundation, which is an organization that supports ambitious students, drivers, and professionals in the trucking industry who seek to grow their skills through classroom and vocational training. Its a
community of corporations, foundations, and individuals who value professional development in the trucking industry and are committed to seeing it grow. After twelve years, the Women In Trucking Association's growth has been phenomenal. It has over 4,500 members in eleven countries. Their members are both corporate and individual, and nearly twenty percent are men who join because they believe in our mission.
‘Clare’ A doll story Ellen always wanted to create a truck driver doll so girls and boys can imagine themselves in a transportation career. Ellen tried to get Mattell to design a truck driver Barbie doll, but a chance encounter (at an airport) with the President of HABA Toys prompted a relationship where they created "Clare" the truck driver doll. To promote the doll, they made a Facebook page for "Where's Clare," and their members started sharing photos of Clare at work, at home, in the ofce, and in the truck. They featured Clare in last year's annual photo contest and at the conference we had a "Where's Clare" party where everyone dressed up to look like Clare. Even the cake and the balloon decorations were Clare look-alikes.
Endeavor to Women Empowerment Ellen's inspiration comes from her desire to empower women. She wants women to take risks, push themselves beyond their comfort zones, and to succeed. Whether it's driving a truck, working on engines, leading an organization or any of the other roles in transportation, women are valued, needed, and right now, very under-represented. Ellen wants to change that.
Adaptive to change While narrating her strategies to help other women to achieve a more prominent role in their
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organization, Ellen said, "We need to address unconscious bias. We like to hire people who share the same characteristics, values, and sometimes, the same physical traits. Diversity is good for everyone. The trucking industry is experiencing a change in how we accept, hire, and promote women, and it is all very positive. I'd like to say that the Women In Trucking Association is driving this change, as we are making people aware of ways they might not be giving women a level playing eld."
would encourage women to venture out and follow their passion. Make sure you are doing something you enjoy, otherwise it won't be fun, and you'll burn yourself out."
Fearless and Adventurous I really don't have a lot of fear. I y an airplane for fun, ride a motorcycle, and have gone sky diving for the challenge. I'm not afraid of much. I am a risk taker and my adage is "life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”
Looking Back With Gratication When asked if she got chance to start her career over would she do anything differently. Ellen said she looks back at her career with a great deal of satisfaction. She knows she has been instrumental in creating a better environment for women in the trucking industry, and that is rewarding. She can't think of anything she would have to do differently.
Members Are Assets As Ellen's organization is a nonprot organization, its "customers" are their members. Ellen strives to represent them and give them a voice. More importantly, she creates an environment where they can network, mentor, and learn from each other.
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Does Gender Gap Restraining Women from Global Clout?
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olanta Reingarde, the research and statistics program coordinator of EuroGender, expressed that women’s employment rates and working hours were lower than men’s—with over 8 per cent of women aged 20-64 never having worked. Women, half of the population of the world still feels underprivileged and owns only 1% of world’s wealth. According to the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), “Gender, refers to the social attributes and opportunities associated with being male and female and the relationships between women and men and girls and boys, as well as the relations between women and those between men. These attributes, opportunities and relationships are socially constructed and are learned through
socialization processes.” Furthermore, gender equality refers to the equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys On an equal footing today, in many democratic countries where gender equality ratio is higher gender discrimination exists in many elds including politics. Survey exhibits, 1 in 5 women and girls between the ages of 15-49 have reported experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner and 49 countries currently have absolutely no laws against domestic violence. Though in the past decade many developments are visible in lowering harmful practices such as child marriage and
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Gender Gap Gender Gender GapGap Female Genital Mutilation, resulting in decreasing it by 30%, but there is still much work to be done for a complete elimination of such practices. Research shows women politicians are more effectively implements legislation which benets women. Apart from implementing laws for wellbeing of half of the population, women having political power make a difference in the society by conveying diversity in decision making or policy making. Although, there are many women who are role models for other women as successful leaders. They’ve successfully run the corporations, organizations, governments, academic institutions and upheld such institutions at new heights. They have shown other women the possible potentials and the invincibility they hold in their own hands. Still, such achievements are incredible, the percentage of such women is too small. This lower percentage doesn’t mean there is a shortage of ambition among the women, In fact 6 in 10 of the professional working women expressed they aspire to be a senior leader of a company or organization, and more than half aspire to serve on a board. But still, there is
hesitancy. More than half of the women agree that, “as women,” they are more cautious in taking steps toward leadership roles, and six in 10 nd it hard to see themselves as a leader. Traditionally, there are certain beliefs like that women are supposed not to lead. In reality labelled thinking about women comprise major barriers; social perception about leadership ability of women, women’s lack of aggressiveness are some barriers that obstruct the participation of women. In this regard stereotyped attitudes towards gender equality inuence women’s advancement in socio-economical and political participation. While reports about male-centric workforces like aviation, science & technology, research along with occupational segregation in other professions too are valuable for highlighting a continuing problem, these issues must be addressed at the core level like cultural and educational level to see change. Some industries are slowly changing their perceptions around, but there is still much work to be done to accomplish equality in both workforce balance, salaries and occupying powerful positions
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Marillyn Hewson A Legend in Aeronautics & Defence Industry
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hen tackling a difcult decision, a person’s skills and experience will only get them so far. That’s why the best leaders surround themselves with people who offer diverse opinions, complement their abilities, and aren’t afraid to suggest a different approach, articulates Marillyn Hewson, one of the most powerful women in the world. Ms. Marillyn A. Hewson is a Chairman, President & Chief Executive Ofcer at Lockheed Martin Corp., an Associate at American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, a Chairman, President & Chief Executive Ofcer at Lockheed Martin Investment Management Co., a Member at The Business Council, a Member at The Economic Club of Washington, a Member at The International Institute for Strategic Studies, a Member-Steering Committee at Defense Industry Initiative and a President at Lockheed Martin Logistics Management, Inc. She is on the Board of Directors at DuPont Safety Resources, Catalyst, Inc., Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, DowDuPont, Inc., Aerospace Industries Association, National Geographic Society Education Foundation, USO, Inc., Association of the United States Army and The Business Roundtable.
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By working together at every level of society to spur innovation, we can unleash the full potential of human ingenuity — Marillyn Hewson
She previously held a variety of increasingly responsible executive positions with the Corporation, including President and Chief Operating Ofcer and Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin’s Electronic Systems business area. She has also served in key corporate executive roles, including Senior Vice President of Corporate Shared Services; Vice President of Global Supply Chain Management; and Vice President of Corporate Internal Audit. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in
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business Administration and her Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Alabama. She also attended the Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School executive development programs. In 2019, TIME magazine identied Hewson as one of the “100 Most Inuential People in the World.” She was named the “2018 CEO of the Year” by Chief Executive Magazine. In 2018, she was also recognized as No. 1 on the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list, a Top 10 “Businessperson of the Year” by FORTUNE magazine, and as one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” by Forbes.
Diversity is the key to innovation Marillyn believe severy position comes with critical choices every single day. Here are three ways you can ensure you are always making smart
decisions, whatever your role: Surround yourself with people who are different from you; Know what you don’t know by hiring smarter people than you; and say yes to people at every level who have the courage to honestly tell you what’s working and what’s not. And when they disagree with you, they can’t be afraid to say so.
Mother’s Resilience Marillyn’s courage is her mother. Her mother taught her about leadership is the importance of determination. She lost her father at the age of 9 and it was a terrible shock to all of them, specially to her mother. Being a single parent of ve children, she raised them with the determination that her children would be prepared for the future, so she challenged them with responsibilities beyond their years. Marillyn mentions the resilience Mary Adams showed during her tough period showed her everything she needed to know about leadership and reected the unwavering determination of a generation of women who, like her, stood tall in the face of extraordinary adversity.
Aspirations for Future Woman Leaders As a CEO of Lockheed, Marillyn wants to ensure that women at Lockheed have the same opportunities to grow and succeed as she did. Here are some of the things that she believes leaders should do to create a workplace culture where women thrive: Be there, Leaders set the tone -- and actions speak louder than words. It makes a big difference for momentum and morale when top executives attend empowerment and networking events for women and other groups within their workforce.
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Beware of hidden biases, subtler and subconscious forms of bias disadvantage women. So never put their names forward when such opportunities arise. Reward results, Driving progress takes time, and you need to ensure that all the elements of your organization are aligned to support it for the long haul. Set high standards, measure progress, celebrate what's working and x what's not. Marillyn elaborates further supporting women in the workplace isn't rocket science. However, it takes a real investment of time, attention, and resources. And, most of all, it takes leadership and commitment. According to Marillyn,we must continue to drive culture change and continue to reach out to the next generation and make sure women feel empowered and equipped to pursue any job they are qualied for. That comes from showing young girls and women the power of what is possible. Each of us today has the opportunity and the responsibility to create an environment where our current and future female leaders can achieve their aspirations. Ultimately we want girls and boys to know that women are capable of extraordinary things and that none of us should ever put limits on ourselves. Together it's up to us all to help women reach their full business potential.
Leave the Comfort Zone and Learn Something New Every Day While advising young professional Marillyn enunciates, Sometimes self-doubt became selflimiting and the only way to become a leader is by building up your own experiences. You can't expect to know it all from day one or to succeed at whatever you do on the rst try. Instead, you need
to reach for opportunities to grow, because that's when you learn and broaden yourself. And often, the adversities you face are what really forge your character and improve your condence. It's the problems you've worked through in the past that will position you for future success -- along with the mastery and expertise that can only be developed by doing something.
Power of Innovation Marillyn believes that all of us -- businesses, governments, and individuals -- have the opportunity and responsibility to contribute to a better future. By unlocking the power of innovation, we unleash the potential of the human mind to address the world's most pressing challenges. And she is excited to see what we come up with next
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Sheri Atwood Founder & CEO of SupportPay
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he treatment of women across all facets of culture has been in the spotlight all year. But is it actually making a difference? A few years ago, I talked about gender bias in Silicon Valley on CNBC. Today, female founders are still not getting the respect they deserve in the tech industry. VC funding for female startups is down to 2.2 percent from an estimated 6 percent in 2015, and Fortune 500 female CEOs are 30 percent more likely to be red or replaced compared to their male counterparts. Last year, I was one of them — and my company was then driven into the ground. But I decided not to sit idly by. After a year of hard work, I not only bought my company back from the people who ousted me but made it stronger than ever.
The Back Story: SupportPay is Born
You’re Fired! Female Founders Are Still Fighting For Respect in Tech — Here is My Comeback Story!
I built my company, SupportPay, from scratch because I needed a solution to help me track and manage child support and my daughter’s expenses. As a former Silicon Valley executive, I didn’t have the time to manage these things and was certain there was a solution out there to help. To my shock, there wasn’t. So the idea behind SupportPay was born: an app to make it easy for separated and divorced families to exchange money, without the drama or the ghting. As a single mom who had been sexually harassed one too many times in corporate America, I decided I wanted and needed to take my future into my own hands. I risked it all, and started Support Pay. I left behind my paycheck and lost my healthcare coverage. Without any parents and no spouse to lean on, I had no one who would save me or my daughter if this big idea failed. I had no choice. It had to succeed.
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“You have been terminated from your position” I ofcially started SupportPay in 2011. Over the course of ve years, we raised over $7M in funding, built a team of 25, and grew our customer base to more than 40,000 people. In December 2016, I closed my Series A of $4M. In August 2017, I was terminated as the CEO of my company. Yet I couldn’t (and still can’t) say a word about what really happened. One day I hope to tell the entire story but for now, I can focus on what I learned. Most say that your rst startup fails, I am lucky enough to take the lessons
Sheri Atwood Founder & CEO of SupportPay
learned from my “rst” startup and can now apply them to my second, while still focused on what I am most passionate about, helping parents and children. In addition to the pain of losing my company, I ended up losing most of my “friends” as well. People who I thought would be there for me no matter what, whom I went out of my way to help and protect, business partners whom I did anything they asked of me, suddenly forgot who I was and never even reached out to see how I was doing. In fact, very few people reached out to ask me what happened. Instead, they made
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Leader’s Perspective Leader’s Perspective Leader’s Perspective assumptions or took the word of others regarding the situation. Needless to say, I was devastated. It was the darkest and hardest time of my life! If you only knew where I came from that is saying a lot! I simply did not know what to do. Many nights I wondered if I could face another day! I had put everything I had into my company — moved my daughter to a new city, spent all of my savings, risked everything. I had no backup plan, and I was red with nothing to show for it. I had a teenager to raise and support and wasn’t sure what to do next. And for what? The most confusing part of my ordeal was that SupportPay started to tank when I left. The company lost most of its customers, the product no longer worked as it should have, and 20 of the 25 employees I had hired either quit or were red, yet the company had more money in the bank than ever before. It didn’t make any sense.
It wasn’t over In November 2017, just three months after I was red, I found out via an email to all shareholders that SupportPay was being liquidated. Shut down. Closed. My hard work was not only really gone, but the parents who relied on us to help them with their child support would no longer have a
Sheri Atwood Founder & CEO of SupportPay
solution. Swallowing my pride, I went back to the very people who had booted me from the company with an offer to help. My calls went unanswered. But I couldn’t just stand by. I simply don’t have it in me. I knew I had to try everything and anything I could to save what I had built. I started looking into who would buy the SupportPay assets. What I knew, more than anyone, was that the code, assets, and IP are incredibly complex. This was not something that could just be picked up by anyone and successfully run. That was clear just by the fact that the company was liquidated after I was gone. Around the same time, I met another female founder who turned out to be my guardian angel. Not only was she there for support — she also offered to help negotiate the purchase of the SupportPay’s assets so I could buy my company back. In early 2018, I took out a personal loan and used all of my remaining savings to purchase the SupportPay assets and I formed a new company: Smart Family Tech, Inc. For nearly 11 months, I have been working to rebuild SupportPay — xing the product and slowly winning back customers. I don’t have the cushion of angel of venture funding or extra money in the bank so my team is much smaller, but also more focused. Today, I can proudly say that we are
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Leader’s Perspective Leader’s Perspective Leader’s Perspective doing better than ever, protable, with 4x more paid customers and 5x more active users than ever before. So why? Why did this female founder get no respect? There was no clear reason for destroying my company; it did not fare better without me and everyone lost — investors, employees and most importantly, the parents who desperately relied on us for a solution. I may never know the answer but the data speaks for itself. It’s a topic most are afraid to talk about. It’s something that I wish I never had to educate my daughter about. But the facts don’t lie and the fact is that a white man, in my situation, has the luxury of making mistakes. Minority and female founders do not. If a white male founder messes up, 9 out of 10 times he is given the ability to learn from that mistake and continue to run his company. A study by Joan Williams has even given this a name ”prove it again” bias. In her study, she proves that in order to be seen as equally competent, women need to perform better than men. And when women are successful their successes are credited more to luck or circumstance than to skill. Their mistakes are noticed more and remembered longer. Story after story and research shows that minority and/or female founder has no more than one chance. If they make a mistake or disagree with their board members, statistics show they will be replaced. Is it because the expectations are so much higher? Is there a double standard when it comes to addressing mistakes? Is it because there are so few of us that the spotlight is on everything we do? Or that we receive such little venture money that the money we do get is given with a thought that we won’t deliver the return — even though all research shows minority and female founders and CEOs have a much higher rate of return than their white male counterparts?
Sheri Atwood Founder & CEO of SupportPay
I may never know the real reason but what I can say is: that “I’m stronger because I had to be, I’m smarter because of my mistakes, happier because of the sadness I’ve known and now wiser because I learned.” By telling my story I hope we can change the way women and minorities are treated in tech. Studies show that most people who hold these bias’ don’t even realize it. My true hope is that this bias can somehow be overcome thru stories like mine. If nothing else, I hope my story inspires, even one person, not to give up, even when you feel all hope is lost. Looking back on this journey, how far I’ve come, the trials and tribulations I’ve been thru and my road ahead I can honestly say that I made many mistakes, regretted many decisions and have been knocked down more times than I’d like to admit. My daughter had to witness what I have been through and I hope this has taught her that, despite everything I have endured, no one can take away my resilience, persistence, grit, and desire to succeed. Nothing good in life comes easy and the only way to achieve your goals is through hard work and determination. I believe Winston Churchill said it best,” Success is not Final. Failure is not Fatal. It is the Courage to Continue that Counts”.
About Sheri Atwood Sheri Atwood is an Entrepreneur and Single Mom. She is a Founder & CEO of SupportPay, the 1st automated child support payment platform that enables parents to share child expenses & exchange child support/alimony directly with each other
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eal success, whether in business or life, is impossible without being yourself and building great relationships, articulates Maureen Huber, CFO & CIO at Synzi. Today’s woman are independent, self-reliant in every aspect. They are capable of doing everything and are equally leading the World. There are the women who are bringing innovation to the tech industry, gaining visibility, credibility and outlining specic areas. These women are setting examples for other ambitious women. Maureen Huber is one of them. Maureen having nearly two decades of experience leading through various organizations in the areas of Finance, Human Resources, IT and Operations. She oversees software engineering, IT, language operations, nance, and human resources. Maureen has a Bachelor of Science and Executive MBA Program from Michigan State University. Maureen experienced every functional area of accounting and progressed to a leadership position very early in her career. Maureen Huber has risen to the top of multiple companies in the tech industry and holds a strong record of raising organic and inorganic growth. She has also been honored by several organizations for her leadership and community
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service. She is also a frequent guest speaker at various business conferences sharing her passion for technology and education. Maureen has also served as treasurer of Michigan State University’s Executive Alumni Association Board of Directors and participated with various volunteer organizations.
3 P’s of Success: Permanence, Perseverance, and Persistence Young Maureen was truly fascinated by computers. She tried learning various programming languages. At an early age, Maureen knew that she will make her career in the software industry. Maureen believes Business and nance came to
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hernaturally so she focused on those skills and looked to lead technology organizations where she can be involved with the development and use cases for solutions. Maureen’s experience as a Corporate Controller provides a publicly traded technology company to transition to a subsidiary of a multinational software corporation and she acquires a position of CFO, after getting hold of private equity, She has been promoted asthe CEO. Challenges can never stop Maureen in achieving her goals and for her biggest challenge has been managing growth. Being able to provide techenabled services when clients need it, and ď€ nding the right people and being able to scale
Maureen Huber CFO & CIO quickly. Being a woman there is one more challenge is to keep a perfect balance between personal and professional life and she is managing both very well by setting up priorities and integration between both personal and professional life. Her career as an executive in the technology industry can be attributed to her natural curiosity and work ethic, but also her genuine approach to working with clients as well as team members. Maureen bring people together effectively by placing emphasis on listening and communicating - a style that creates a safe environment for innovation and ultimately smart business solutions. As a leader with cutting-edge technology companies, She focuses on better technology, better communication, and better care for all.
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Maureen Huber CFO & CIO include CFO/CIO at Status Video, Vice President at Rocket Software, the Controller at DynTek
‘Work hard, perform beyond the expectation’ Maureen advice to other women. Whatever task assigned to you, do with excellence, it might not be important but your dedication and efforts are.
Be Self-proponent According to Maureen, in professional life be vocal for yourself in any situation like role in a project or asking for a pay increase but with your groundwork to be done on facts and not on thoughts and feelings. Consider the objections and have prepared non emotional counterpoints to consider. If the result is unfavorable, ask for feedback like how could I have approached this differently, what do I need to do to achieve my goal.
Idiosyncrasy of questioning Curiosity plays an important role in selfimprovement and organizational growth. Having a full view of a project or task will help develop overall business acumen and give context to your contribution. Maureen is an excellent manager with expert industry knowledge and keen business acumen, She serves as a model for her employees by maintaining a great work-life balance and empowering team members to do the same
Honors & Awards Celebrating Women Honoree May 2012 Vista Maria CFO of the Year 2011 May 2011 Crain's Detroit
Other organization Maureen leads previously are:
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Be Accessible. Be Interested. Be Real. Be Better - Maureen Huber
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Women Leaders
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Ainsley Braun Co- Founder & CEO
Tinfoil Security https://tinfoilsecurity.com
Tinfoil Security is a SaaS Company that provides cybersecurity tools tailored to DevOps teams.
Ellen Voie Founder, President & CEO
Women In Trucking Association Inc. www.womentrucking.org
The Women In Trucking Association is a nonprot organization focused on the transportation and logistics industry.
Jane Gowing President
Gowing Constractors http://www.gowingcontract ors.com/
Gowing Contractors is a successful and innovative Mechanical Contractor operating in process municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment systems since 1998.
Katherine Colombino CEO
Software & Services Consulting S.R.L. (SSC) http://www.ssc.com.py www.katherinecolombino.c om
Founded in 2013, Software & Services Consulting SRL (SSC) is an Asuncion, Paraguay based SAP solution provider.
Marillyn A. Hewson Chairman, President & CEO
Lockheed Martin www.lockheedmartin.com
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Mary Barra Chairman & CEO
General Motors https://www.gm.com/
Maureen Huber CFO & CIO
Synzi www.synzi.com
Meighen Nehme President & CEO
The Job Shoppe Inc. thejobshoppe.com/
The Job Shoppe works to link job candidates with top employers across Ontario.
Pae Natwilai CEO
Trik https://gettrik.com
TRIK is an enterprise drone software designed for structural inspection. It automatically turns photos into an interactive 3D model which can be annoted.
Tessa Clarke
OLIO www.olioex.com
OLIO is a free app tackling the problem of food waste in the home & local community by connecting users who have food they don’t want and need, with neighbours living nearby who would like it.
Co- Founder & CEO
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General Motors Company, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells nancial services, with global headquarters in Detroit's Renaissance Center. Synzi is a virtual care company dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes through telehealth & telemedicine technology.
Menghan Markel Actress
Woman You Are Complete Circle! W
omen empowerment is a booming topic in today’s society. Individuals are nally being convinced that women’s can ourish and be successful in all spheres like: personal, social, economic, politics and education. Women today are working hand in hand with men and are doing equally good in their respected elds. Time to time history has been a witness of women gures who contributed enormously to society. It is nally time for society to wake-up and totally accept the fact that women were not just created to hide back and work off stage, but rather to stand shoulder to shoulder with men, working to change the course of history. As DianeMarie child has rightly said, “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” A woman is the reason for life on earth. A woman is the source of comfort to mankind. She is the medium, who through her love has the power to transform human life. So Let’s sneak into some stories of impressible great women’s who changed the world.
The Fantastic 2 Meghan Markel, The Royal Highness and the Duchess of Sussex were denitely not royal by birth, but surely by character and quality. Meghan was born on August 4th, 1981. She is known to many as an Actress and a Philanthropist. Meghan has hit the world with her charisma and charm. Even before marrying the Royal Prince Harry, she had a huge fan following for her TV show the Suits. The world has been a witness ofMeghan’s transformation. She has been a voice behind women’s right. Like a gifted orator, she even orated a speech on 2015 International Women’s Day, for which she was praised by many. She is marked as the most goggled actress. In one of her interviews, she made a very striking comment on woman saying, “Woman don’t need voice, because they have one; all they need is freedom to voice it out”.
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Woman- You Are Complete Circle! Priyanka Chopra The star, Hollywood celeb, singer and producer. Was born on 18th July 1982, Jamshedpur, India. Both her parents were doctors in army. This superstar is India’s most celebrated and highest paid actress, Priyanka received a great many awards, like National Film Award and Film fare awards for her outstanding performances. She is considered as one among the top most 100 inuential personalities in the world. Chopra is also a Philanthropist, and is working with UNICEF since 2006 as a Goodwill Ambassador, embarking issues such as environment, health and education and women’s rights. She is also very articulated about gender equality and feminism. She believes in voicing out for women. In one of her speeches, she even confessed that in spite of coming from a country such as India she was given equal rights as her brother. Her expeditions to medical camps were openers of dis equality among girls and boys of our society. To put down in her words, “ the hand that rock the cradle, the procreator- the mother of tomorrow, a woman shapes the destiny of civilization; is today the gravest concern of humanity”. Priyanka Nick Jonas is truly a trueblue Cancerian who lives with romance in her brain! Both these gigantic personalities have proved to be successful not only in their personal lives but also as professionals. There have been innumerable women out there in the world who have outshined the male leads and have proved to be incredibly successful. Above were just glimpses of two such women in the world. If given the freedom women can shine brightly as the morning star and bring warmth and life to the entire race of mankind for she is better strong than pretty useless!
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Tessa Clarke Contributing to Global Sustainable Development through a Food Sharing Revolution
The truly great leaders have an infectious passion for their mission, can articulate a clear vision, are outstanding at inspiring & empowering others, are restless for change, have an insatiable curiosity, and combine ambition and humility in equal measures, opined Tessa Clarke, CEO and Founder of OLIO, the world's only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app. After a 15 year corporate career, Tessa CoFounded OLIO, which is solving the problem of household food waste at scale. They do this by connecting users who have excess food, with neighbours living nearby who would like it. OLIO has acquired over 1 million users in just 3 years and its impact has been widely recognised, including by the United Nations who highlighted OLIO as a "beacon” for the world, demonstrating how to solve climate change at scale; and by Vivatech who awarded OLIO "Next European Unicorn".
Idea becomes Reality Tessa’s journey started just 4 years ago, when she was moving country and found herself on moving day with some good food that they hadn’t managed to eatF. And so she set off on a bit of a wild goose chase to try and nd someone to give it to, and she failed miserably. Through the whole process, it seemed to her crazy that she should have to throw this food away when there were
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As a mother of 2 young children, I’m incredibly passionate about the sharing economy as a solution for a sustainable world, and spend a lot of time thinking about the future we are giving them, and how we can improve this – Tessa Clarke
surely plenty of people within hundreds of metres of her who would love it, the problem was they just didn’t know about it. And so the idea of OLIO, a mobile app where neighbours can share surplus food, came about. She pitched the idea to her CoFounder Saasha, and she immediately got it. They then researched the problem of food waste, and what they discovered shocked and horried them – globally, one third of all food produced gets thrown away, meanwhile 800m people go to bed hungry each night, and if food waste were to be a country it would be the 3rd largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, after the USA and China. And as if that weren’t bad enough, they also learned that in countries such as the UK and US, over half of all food waste takes place in the home! Once they’d discovered all this, they were
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‘Inspiration Comes from Everywhere’ While asking Tessa to share her greatest inspiration in life, she reveals “I don’t have any one person who has been my greatest inspiration, as I take inspiration from absolutely everywhere. However, since founding OLIO I’ve found feedback from our users incredibly inspiring – especially in those very bleak moments of the entrepreneurial journey. I also nd myself spurred on when I contemplate the world that my children – who are 4 and 6 years old – are due to inherit.”
Tessa’s Key to success “I spent most of my childhood and early career desperately trying to ‘t in’ and ‘be normal’ (I was brought up on a pretty isolated farm, far removed from the lives of my peers at school and work).
Cofounder & CEO And yet as I got older, I started to realise that it is precisely our differences that make us all so valuable and unique. So I would encourage any woman to try and nd the condence to recognise, rather than hide, their differences. Another really important realisation I’ve had is that most of the time, no-one will stop you from doing something – so the key is you deciding that you want something, and then seriously committing to it.”
‘Feel the Fear, And Do it Anyway’ I will never forget being terried about taking on an assignment in my rst job after University, and my best friend at the time said to me “feel the fear, and do it anyway”. I’m sure it’s a cliché, but it really is spot on! Nowadays, whilst I have many fears on a day to day basis, I don’t tend to dwell on them to be honest, as I’ve realised that’s extremely counterproductive, and quite frankly, life is too short.
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Cofounder & CEO and understand what really interests and fulls me.”
Piece of Advice for Entrepreneurs “First, when you’re starting a business it’s critical to have a learning mindset – your key objective at this stage is to experiment as quickly as possible, not to have all the answers. Second, you can derisk massively by starting small and building from there - if you haven’t already, do read ‘The Lean Startup’, a great business building philosophy. Third, given that more capital provides more runway, and more runway generally equates to a greater probability of success, make sure to carefully scrutinise every expenditure you make – it’s surprising how much you can achieve with how little when you get creative. And nally, although entrepreneurship can be the most fullling thing in the world, it is also an incredibly long, tough journey, so make sure to carve out some time for yourself to preserve your health and sanity! It’s time well spent”
Building Enduring Customer Relationships According to Tessa, one of the most important foundations of an enduring customer relationship is authenticity. Being really clear up front about what your proposition to customers is, and then ensuring you live up to that in every single aspect of your business interactions, no matter how big or small.
IF not OLIO, then what? While asking if she had the chance to start her career over again she expresses, “Without a doubt, I would’ve started working on something ‘meaningful’ far earlier in my career. It really has been a ‘zero to one’ experience working on OLIO as it has such a powerful mission and impact, and I wish I’d taken the time earlier on to dig deep
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Starting OLIO has forced me to be innovative and creative in a way I’ve never been before. When there’s so much at stake, and when you don’t have a boss, it’s incredibly liberating, but also scary – Tessa Clarke
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n developed and cultured societies, Women’s involvement in the social, economical and political environment has evolved at a very outrageous pace. Domiciliary work is a coresponsibility which is to be shared by both men and women, but an utmost part of the world assumes it to be only the responsibility of women. Today also in many parts of the world, women are facing threats to their lives, health, and wellbeing. They receive less formal education than men and their involvement in decision making is also not considerably valued. Gender equality which is the Preamble of Fundamental Rights for Women is one of the measures for women empowerment along with traditional methods like providing good education, good medical facilities, and nancial independence. And this can be achieved by involving all parts of society and implying them with government policies. The government should design and implement
participation and representation at all levels of the political entities of each community. The government should focus on making more women vocal of their concerns and needs, and, ensure equal and full participation of women in decisionmaking in all aspects of society. The Government and civil society should take actions to eliminate attitudes and practices that discriminate against girls and women and support gender inequality. To design and implement women empowerment policies, the participation of woman into government has to be increased. But, women around the world at different socio-political levels nd themselves under-represented and far removed from decision-making levels. When it comes to ‘good citizen’ activities such as voting and engaging in community groups, the
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Women on Political Horizon Women on Political Horizon Women on Political Horizon voting and engaging in community groups, the participation of women is higher than their male counterparts. However, women are reluctant (or inability) to attend political meetings, getting involved in party politics and actively campaigning on behalf of other candidates, which results into compromising the number of women in both, serving in elected ofce and policy outcomes on issues of importance to women. Overcoming these signicant barriers to result in equal participation and representation is not an easy task. The Possible solution could be summarized as: -Reserving quotas for women in the parliament, -Reservation in political parties. -Increasing awareness, educating and promoting role model to increase women participation. Culturally, there is a belief that women are not supposed to lead. In fact, stereotyped perceptions about women are major barriers. Some of these barriers include the social perception about leadership ability of women and women’s lack of
assertiveness. In this regard, traditional attitudes towards gender equality also inuence women’s furtherance in politics. Another point to be noted is that women’s participation in politics depends largely on their access to employment, which gives them not only material independence but also certain professional skills and greater self-condence. So this access to means of nances has a direct relationship and inuence on the participation of women in political organizations. The global average for women in parliaments is 22.4 %. In Europe its 25.2%, Africa has an average representation of 22.6%, Asia has 19% and the Arab states have it 18%. But at the end, both male and female legislators must work together in order to solve the problems in their countries. And in order to build strong, sustainable democracies, and to meet worldwide development goals, women must be encouraged, empowered and supported in becoming strong political leaders
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