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The Early Bird Gets The the Worm
By JFC at 1 December, 2006, 12:21 am
Most mentoring occurs after women of color have already joined an organization. But companies like The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies are starting the mentoring process much earlier in the careers of young women of color. Chubb has developed the Collegiate Women of Color Leadership Development Institute, a program which selects 50 young women of [...]
Read More >>Upcoming Multicultural Women's Town Halls
By JFC at 28 November, 2006, 12:25 am
Since Working Mother Media (WMM) started their Women of Color National Conference in 2003, there has been a surge of interest in issues surrounding women of color in business. The upshot of this increased interest is that WMM has been holding Multicultural Women’s Town Halls all over the country, where women of all ethnicities can [...]
Read More >>Leadership In Your Midst?
By JFC at 23 November, 2006, 4:43 pm
This Harvard Business Review (HBR) article entitled “Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives” has been out for some time, but I want to revisit it today. The Center for Work-Life Policy, through its Hidden Brain Drain task force, devised a study in 2004 which examines the hidden strengths (and lives) [...]
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