A Change in Leadership
Spring is here, bringing us new opportunities. I have the
opportunity and am honored to introduce myself as the new Executive Director of
Milwaukee Women inc. I have big shoes to fill, as Marsha Block moves
forward with her thriving consulting business. MWi is lucky to sustain Marsha's
involvement with our organization in her role as a steering committee member. I
look forward to working with our steering committee and partners to elevate the
presence of women on corporate boards and in executive suites. Thank you for
your continued interest in Milwaukee Women inc.
Carla Rutley
Executive Director
MWi in the News...
- Milwaukee Women inc was featured in a recent edition of The Business Journal. Read more...
Milwaukee in the News...
- Manpower Awarded by Women's Business Council. Read more...
- Associated's Lisa Binder Elected to ABA Board of Directors. Read more...
Items of Interest...
Planning for Tomorrow's Boardroom
Making Room for More Women
The InterOrganization Network (ION) has released the 5th Annual Status Report of Women Directors and Executive Officers of Public Companies in Twelve Regions of the United States. Read more...
Boardroom Diversity Symposium
Corporate Board Member magazine is presenting a
Boardroom Diversity Symposium on May 4-5, 2009 at the Baltimore Marriott
Waterfront. The
two-day conference will feature interactive sessions, informative
workshops, and breakout groups that address why diversity is a good
business decision - both at the board level and throughout an
organization. The goal of the Symposium is to:
- Help company leadership understand the ROI of a diverse board;
- Identify a new generation of qualified diverse board members; and
- Introduce existing boards and nominating/governance committees to diverse director prospects.
Read more...
Latina Soundboard: From a C Suite to a Seat on the Board
Today
the economic
downturn the U.S is
facing is in hands
of the nations' top
corporate executives
and needless to say,
corporate boards of
the industries play
an important role in
oversight and
decision-making.
This is why the
scrutiny of the
selection and make-up
of the nation's top
public corporations
is ever more crucial
to all citizens in
this growing global
economy and
diversity on
corporate boards is
ever more important. Read more...
Doctoral Study: The Impact of Executive Coaching on the Organizational Performance of Female Executives
Recent studies indicated that companies
studied expected to lose 50% or more of their senior managers (identified as
two ranks below the CEO). This critical
gap occurs as these seasoned, executive leaders depart corporate life, and take
with them years of institutional knowledge, organizational experience and
cultural values, the lack of which may cripple an organization's future growth,
stability and sustainability. This study sought to fill
the leadership gap by providing a two-pronged solution: a particular focus
on the leadership development of women through the specific use of executive
coaching; and measuring the impact of this leadership development modality on
their organizational performance. Read more...
What Would Happen if Women Ran Wall Street
"There is no doubt in my mind that Larry Summers, head of the White House
National Economic Council, was right when he said as president of Harvard
University at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on
Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce on Jan. 14, 2005: 'There may also be elements, by the way, of differing. There is some,
particularly in some attributes, that bear on engineering. There is reasonably
strong evidence of taste differences between little girls and little boys that
are not easy to attribute to socialization.'" Read more...
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