Free Teleclass | How to Handle Criticism Like a Pro
How to Handle Criticism Like a Pro Tuesday, September 27, 2016 1:00-1:30pm Eastern
Small Businesses, Big Dreams
By Katherine Herbst, Buyer, Household and Garden, QVC Over the past three decades, QVC has launched and fostered the growth of many successful brands, which also happen to be founded by women, including bareMinerals, Spanx, IT Cosmetics and Lori Greiner. As a buyer at QVC, I am always looking for that next brand or product that will surprise and delight our customers. At last year’s Pennsylvania Conference for Women, I … [ more ]
Networking Advice for People Who Feel Awkward Approaching Other People
Lucky for women in tech and new media, Rachel Sklar is not known for being reticent. Once, she even publicly confronted Graydon Carter, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, about publishing an article that claimed that women aren’t funny. “I wasn’t as articulate as I would have wanted, but I said my piece and stood my ground,” says Sklar, co-founder of non-profit Change the Ratio and membership organization Theli.st (which both seek … [ more ]
More Magazine’s Lesley Jane Seymour on Success and Second Acts
If anyone knows about self-reinvention, it’s Lesley Jane Seymour. The topic was at the core of More, the magazine she helmed for eight years before it closed last February, and the former editor-in-chief published hundreds, if not thousands, of articles offering advice and inspiration to women contemplating their second acts.