IWEC Foundation Past Awardee, Myrna Tang-Yao, Featured in PNVSCA Publication
Myrna Tang-Yao Plays Godmother to Women Entrepreneurs by Marie Charmaine Alvarez-Ulanday Myrna Tang-Yao empowers women entrepreneurs-housewives with small, home-based business, socio-civic leaders and professionals. There is no stopping her from pursuing what she has started more than two decades ago-promoting and inspiring female economic empowerment in the local and global [...]
IBM’s Watson Anywhere Lets Customers Run AI on Any Cloud They Want
by Ottawa Business Daily Instead of losing its breath trying to keep up with the top three leaders in the cloud race, IBM is now taking a more flexible approach offering Watson Anywhere, analysts say. On Feb. 12, IBM announced Watson Anywhere, which allows people to use the company’s Watson artificial intelligence [...]
Congratulations to IWEC Foundation Supporter, Dos Toros, For Working With Ex-convict Program
“When I first came home [from prison], I didn’t even know how to do a résumé or a job interview,” Michael told me the other day at the Dos Toros restaurant on West 40th Street near Bryant Park. Over the past four years, Dos Toros has hired a total [...]
BOARD MONITOR 2018: APPOINTMENTS OF WOMEN TO BOARDS HIT RECORD HIGH
by Heidrick & Struggles More than 38% of all independent board seats filled by Fortune 500 companies in 2017 went to women. That’s the largest percentage of new female directors since we began tracking the figure in 2009—yet progress remains slow. What is the current status of appointments of women [...]
The Holmes Report: 2019 Consumer Engagement Trends
By Llorente & CuencaPublished in The Holmes Report on February 5, 2019. We live in a constant paradox. As technological disruption drives us into a race for accelerated transformation, our humanity also seems to cling more than ever to the ground to claim the importance of who we are and [...]
IWEC Foundation “Women Who Lead” Podcast Series Launch Tuesday March 5th @ 8:30AMEST
Join us for the first in our "Women Who Lead" Podcast Series! IWEC Chairwoman Ruth A. Davis to Launch the series. IWEC Foundation is hosting a series of "Women Who Lead" podcasts this year featuring strong women leaders who own and run their own businesses throughout the world. We [...]
7 Things That Make Great Bosses Unforgettable
If you cultivate certain characteristics, you’ll become the unforgettable boss that your people will remember for the rest of their careers. Google knows that people don’t leave companies; they leave bosses. by TRAVIS BRADBERRY FEBRUARY 17, 2019 For The Ladders Several times Google has topped Fortune magazine’s list of the 100 [...]
Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets to Success
Rebecca Minkoff and Rosie Mercado share how they succeed through adversity and inspire women entrepreneurs. Staying in the know with tech one of the keys to success by Carlos Gil /CONTRIBUTOR / Founder of Gil Media Co., Media Personality, Keynote Speaker and Consultant Entrepreneur.com / Real Talk If you walk [...]
SAARC Women Entrepreneurs Meet To Address Economic-Societal Challenges
The SAARC countries women entrepreneur will meet in Colombo on March 2nd. The woman entrepreneur nominated from each of the SAARC nations will receive the prestigious title of ‘SAARC Woman Entrepreneur of the year 2018’ at a function in Colombo The EurAsian Times The women business leaders from SAARC nations [...]
Boom for Women in Business in UAE, But Few Reach Company Boards
More than 50,000 trade licenses were issued to women entrepreneurs last year Yet the proportion of women who are acting as chairs of the board of directors in private sector companies in 2018 stood at just 4 percent Arab News February 10, 2019 Photo: Women are still underrepresented in company [...]