Posts Tagged ‘nawbo’
Q-and-A: Maria de Lourdes Sobrino’s sweet strategy for success
Maria de Lourdes Sobrino is CEO of Lulu’s Dessert and a Hall of Fame Award honoree. She served as a keynote panelist at this year’s National Association of Women Business Owners’ Women’s Business Conference. Sobrino founded Lulu’s in 1982 based on her mother’s recipe. It was the first company to bring ready-to-eat gelatin to the U.S. [...]
Q-and-A: Koni Kim’s simple philosophy for career success
Koni Kim is an entrepreneur and the founder, president and CEO of the Koni Corporation, which creates custom textiles and designs for the hospitality industry. She has 30 years of experience in hospitality soft goods and has supplied the industry with major product innovations over the years. Kim is also a keynote panelist at the upcoming [...]
Q-and-A: Cindy Solomon on success, social media and being a woman in the workplace
Cindy Solomon is a nationally recognized speaker, consultant, executive coach and author of “The Courage Challenge Workbook.” She co-founded the Women’s Success Forum, the largest senior executive women’s event in the country. Solomon is a keynote speaker at the upcoming National Association of Women Business Owners 2011 Women’s Business Conference. I interviewed her about leadership, [...]
Q-and-A with Gail Blanke: Clearing the clutter can open your path to success
Gail Blanke is founder, president and CEO of Lifedesigns, an executive coaching company. Her newest book is called “Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life.” Blanke was one of the youngest female senior vice presidents of Avon Products and was chosen as a keynote speaker for the National Association of Women Business [...]
7 keys to successfully selling your business
Entrepreneurs have a variety of goals in mind when they start a business — growing wealth, achieving independence, contributing to society, leaving a legacy and more. What they may not consider, though, is how they will get out of the business when they are done with it. There are a few ways a business owner [...]
Live from NAWBO: Celebrating diversity
The National Association of Women Business Owners, one of SmartBrief’s great association partners, hosted its 2010 Women’s Business Conference last week. Devora Zack, president of Only Connect Consulting and author of “Networking for People Who Hate Networking,” opened Thursday’s sessions with a networking ice breaker and the assertion that “the best thing you can get [...]
How pretty do you have to be?
Last week, Penelope Trunk wrote a post on BNET’s Personal Success blog, arguing that appearance is such an important factor in whether you do well in business that people should hire personal trainers and even get plastic surgery if they hope to succeed. I’m not a proponent of that extreme philosophy, but I can’t resist [...]
