Women Business Leadership

Raegan Moya-Jones never thought of herself as an entrepreneur. She was full-time corporate cog in her 30s, with a family to help support. Sick of her micromanaging boss, she quietly started a company in the wee hours of the morning while her daughters were asleep - and once that side business, aden + anais, hit the $1 million mark in revenue, she quit to work on it full-time, which now generates over $100 million a year in revenue.

Job interview? There's no stress for you. Just excitement that you will crush your next job interview with confidence and ease! Because you have the audiobook. Hired by Walt Disney World, Meijer Super Centers, the US Military, the US Postal Service, four-star restaurants, and the owner of seven different businesses, author Brian Mahoney gives you real-world expert advice from real-world experience on getting hired...by crushing your job interview with confidence and ease.

Close to one billion women will enter the global workforce by 2020, but these women are likely to drop out or get stuck in dead-end jobs. Gender equality is a human rights issue, but engaging women in the workforce is primarily an economic issue - diverse leaders drive bottom-line growth and high-level innovation for global corporations. This book isn’t only for women, chief inclusion officers, or HR practitioners. It offers insight and case studies from global leaders on why it’s a priority for everyone in an organization.

In A Good Time to Be a Girl, Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big breakthrough towards a truly inclusive modern society. Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club, which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards, her manifesto for new ways of working, living, loving and raising families is for everyone, not just women.

As a woman you have a unique opportunity to stand out as a leader. With only 24% of senior leadership positions in the global workforce held by women, it's easy to feel like you're fighting a losing battle. But not anymore! World Dominating Leadership for Women provides you with the strategies and action plans you can use to inspire your team, skyrocket your results and lead from the heart, and with strength.

In Winning Her Business, Bridget Brennan, advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands and businesses, provides a road map for selling in a world dominated by the rise of women’s economic power.

When women we admire such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg advise "Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes" and Vice President Kamala Harris has to remind a room full of men "I'm speaking," it can feel as though having our own voices heard at work can be a lost cause. Whether we're confronting a colleague about an inappropriate comment or trying to avoid being talked over by a male colleague—again—we can find ways to have our voices heard at work. Speak Up, Speak Out helps listeners use their voices more effectively to sound off on issues large and small.

Ask for It explains why it's essential to ask (men do it all the time) and teaches you how to ask effectively, in ways that feel comfortable to you as a woman. Whether you currently avoid negotiating like the plague or consider yourself hard-charging and fearless, Babcock and Laschever's compelling stories of real women will help you recognize how much more you deserve.

Let's face it; leadership has its challenges. When you get knocked down, you need a reliable system you can easily access to help you regain your footing and your confidence. Within the minutes of Mastering Confidence, you will discover such a structure. In truth, you already have this tool; you just need to uncover it. In Mastering Confidence, you will learn to awaken your Inner Guidance System and boost your confidence, giving you the strength to get through challenging meetings and difficult conversations.

From small indignities to unconscious slights, women experience situations at work every day that may seem small or unimportant but that effectively differentiate and exclude them. These are micro-offenses; the small, awkward, or uncomfortable moments that slow-build until the unwelcome environment takes hold and women disengage.

Popular creative coach Gail McMeekin, author of the best-selling The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, offers a wealth of advice for the specific challenges creative women face today: thinking too small, underestimating the need for change, fearing the future, and lacking self-confidence. McMeekin combines interviews with some of today’s most successful women and her own proven success strategies to help readers transcend their “blocks” and achieve success.

Statistically, more than one-third of Fortune 500 managers are women - and yet we represent barely five percent of the top earners among executives. Usually, we blame it on men - those “old boy” networks that don't typically welcome women into “the club”. But, according to leadership coach Rebecca Shambaugh, the real obstacle to women's advancement is not a “glass ceiling”. It's the self-imposed career blocks that prevent us from moving up.

Woman Up! is a guide for females to kick ass in the workplace. This book dares you to defeat challenging personality types and coaches men on co-working. Learn how to stop running away from people and take names. You will thank me later when you face your fear of embracing difficult personas. This guidebook also directs men in the workplace to provide an insight of the female world in a workplace.

Work With Me is the timely collaboration of two of the world's foremost authorities on gender relations. Barbara Annis, world-renowned expert on gender issues in the workplace, and John Gray, author of the number-one relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, team up to resolve the most stressful and confusing challenges facing men and women at work.

It’s time to change the conversation—about work, life, and “balance.” Work and life are inextricably, intimately intertwined. We need to celebrate what we do give our children—even and especially in moments of imbalance—rather than apologizing for what we don’t. In this way, we can model for our children how we use our talents to help others and raise awareness about the issues closest to our hearts.

God calls all women to some level of leadership. Yet seeing yourself as a leader, discerning what you are meant to do, and navigating your role as a woman and leader can be a challenging task. Drawing on the wisdom of 40 years of ministry, Bobbie Houston helps all women to discover their specific purpose and divine calling in Stay the Path. She shares the truths and experiences that have kept her and her husband, Brian Houston, on course, on point, and focused on the path before them.

This powerful collection of stories reveals how the world's leading women in business have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions. This is an audiobook written for every current and aspiring leader, revealing the things that leaders rarely talk about; the behind-the-scenes struggles. The women in these stories are powerful, internationally diverse and have impressive leadership accomplishments.

In this provocative book, Margaret Heffernan, former CEO and Fast Company contributor, fuses her own experience with that of hundreds of women to identify the biggest challenges and the best solutions that women face today. From VPs of Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs to women just starting their careers, she traces the patterns and themes underlying women's power, choices, love, sex, money, and other vital topics.

In this groundbreaking comprehensive analysis, based on more than 25 five years of in-depth surveys involving 100,000 men and women across dozens of Fortune 500 companies, Barbara Annis and Keith Merron provide a deeper understanding of the multiplicity of forces that have combined to create and perpetuate gender inequality. Gender Intelligence exposes common false assumptions that prevent men and women from successfully performing together at work.

Women are naturally high level leaders because they are relationship oriented. However, it's a "man's world" out there and natural ability isn't enough to help you be successful as a leader. You must intentionally develop your skills, so you can lead and influence others at home, at work, at church, or even as a volunteer. Leadership Gems for Women, Ria has packed 30 precious gems of leadership wisdom on characteristics of very successful women - and insight on how you can develop them yourself.