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Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the WorldT To Explore Entrepreneurship From A Global Perspective
Women Entrepreneurs from 6 different countries will participate in a daylong conference at Barnard College
October
23, 2006, (Kansas City, MO)—As a cultural shift towards
entrepreneurship continues to spread around the world, Leading
Women Entrepreneurs of the World™ will gather at Barnard
College on Thursday, November 2, 2006 from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. for a daylong forum that will explore entrepreneurial
characteristics, and what factors and personality traits,
sometimes outside of textbook intelligence, can translate
to successful business models.
Discussions
will focus on whether entrepreneurial skills can be acquired
through education and experience, or if entrepreneurship is
an innate ability - if the impulse to become an entrepreneur
is born from instinct, or perhaps a way for women to proactively
pave their own road to success and circumvent a corporate
"glass ceiling."
Judith
Shapiro, President of Barnard College, will moderate a morning
panel discussion, "Defining the Entrepreneur: Separating
Fact from Fiction." Panelists include: Maxine Burton,
burton + BURTON, USA; Dianne Laurance, Laurance Wines Pty
Ltd and The Pivot Group, Australia; Georgiana Pogonaru, ROMCOLOR
2000 S.A., Romania; Catherine Sofianou, SofMedica, Greece.
"Success
Comes in All Sizes," will be the focus in afternoon breakout
sessions providing an opportunity for speakers from six different
countries to share personal stories about their business endeavors,
while attendees can ask questions and share experiences.
This forum
will complement the Barnard Leadership Initiative (BLI), a
new program in which women are given an in-depth "theoretical,
empirical and historical" foundation of knowledge that
develops the practical insights, skills and strategies needed
to reach and succeed at the highest echelons of an organization.
"Barnard
College is an exceptional location for a forum focusing on
the unlimited possibilities for achievement by women, as it
is an institution that educates and empowers women to reach
the highest levels in their respective fields," said
Cheryl Womack, Chair of Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the
World™. "We look forward to an exchange of ideas
that will hopefully give birth to the next generation of leading
women entrepreneurs around the world."
About
Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World™: LWEW is a
U.S. based non-profit organization that raises the visibility
of successful entrepreneurial women and increases public awareness
of women entrepreneurs' contributions to the global economy.
LWEW includes over 300 female entrepreneurial honorees, representing
more than 50 countries, whose businesses collectively generate
more than $255 Billion US and employ more than 530,000 people.
For more information on The Leading Women Entrepreneurs of
the World™ visit www.leadingwomen.org.
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