Last week, during Global Entrepreneurship Week, I kicked off the FastTrac Global Women’s Summit at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City with an opening address focused on the key global and domestic trends in women’s entrepreneurship today. So, naturally, I touched on some of the most recent knowledge from the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Global [...]
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A Womenabling Manifesto
Posted in business, high growth entrepreneurship, political advocacy, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women-owned business, tagged empowering women, Julie Weeks, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ruby – a Gem of a Women’s Entrepreneurship Program
Posted in business, women's business development, women's enterprise development, women's leadership, tagged business, corporate women's markets, Global Banking Alliance for Women, Ruby Connection, Westpac Bank, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, Womenable on October 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m just back from Oz, where I joined the board of a wonderful organization – the Global Banking Alliance for Women. Their annual summit, which brought together nearly 100 executives from financial institutions and financial inclusion NGOs from (by my count) 18 countries, was hosted this year in Sydney, Australia by one of the four [...]
The New Chain Gang: Women as Suppliers
Posted in business, high growth entrepreneurship, International development issues, women's business development, women's enterprise development, tagged Gap Inc., Goldman Sachs, Pepsi, supply chains, The Coca-Cola Company, value chains, Walmart, WBENC, WEConnect International, women's business development, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship on October 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Time was, corporations parked their womenabling efforts in their corporate social responsibility silos. Now, corporations are far more likely to view women-owned firms as important customers and suppliers than a population in need of charity. We can date US corporate interest in women business owners as a market back to 1995, when the Center for [...]
Ruminations on the Women’s Enterprise Movement
Posted in International development issues, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women-owned business, tagged Julie Weeks, United Kingdom, women's business development, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, Womenable on July 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been traveling lately, participating in a panel on the value of mentors and role models for would-be women business owners, presenting a paper on what gets missed when business enabling environment assessments don’t include gender, speaking at the We Own It Summit in London – and meeting with a group of women’s business advocates [...]
Time to Raise a Ruckus
Posted in business, women's enterprise development, tagged economic impact, Julie Weeks, SBA, US Congress, women's business development, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on May 25, 2011 | 9 Comments »
As I write this, the US House Small Business Committee is convening a “foregone conclusion” hearing focusing on the duplication of entrepreneurial development services at the SBA. Why is it a foregone conclusion? They’ve already sent in their Views and Estimates letter to the House Budget Committee – not only saying that there is duplication [...]
