As entrepreneur Star Cunningham demonstrates, personal need often launches the best ideas By Ruchika Tulshyan Star Cunningham wants you to know that women can build billion-dollar companies. She also wants you to know that health-care professionals do eat pizza. Occasionally. The Chicago-based founder and CEO of 4D Healthware,...

[caption id="attachment_7585" align="alignleft" width="300"] businesswoman with arms outstretched holding smart phone in front of skyscrapers, low angle.[/caption] As discussion of gender equity hits the workplace, thereís some good news! Here are five companies that are relentlessly working to level the playing field and narrow the leadership...

[caption id="attachment_7581" align="alignleft" width="225"] Creativity ConceptCreativity Concept[/caption] A successful career requires that we continually take advantage of learning opportunities, within our organizations, within our fieldsóand within ourselves By Erin Chan Ding A dozen years into her career with a multinational corporation, Marianne Markowitz grew restless. She had the financial...

Diversity Pirate: The first chief diversity officer for the advertising giant TBWA/North America credits Magic Johnson, a pirates’ attitude, and passion for his deep dive into diversity and inclusion. By Erika Mailman Doug Melville eats, sleeps, breathes diversity. When asked how he relaxes at home, the first...

This Latin Grammy executive embraces a multitude of musical and business styles By Katrina Brown Hunt Davina Aryeh acknowledges that the latest initiative at the Latin Grammy Awards could not have come at a more appropriate time. The new Leading Ladies program, which Aryeh helped launch as...

A young entrepreneur creates Ethiopiaís Sesame Street to address children's issues Bruktawit Tigabu has spent her adult life helping others. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and married to an American, she is CEO and cofounder of Whiz Kids Workshop, a company that spearheads innovative literacy programming...

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