Can Business Be a Force For Good? Women As Game Changers Interview with Kim Graham-Nye of gDiapers

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Kim Graham-Nye, named one of Fortunes 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2011, is the co-founder of gDiapers with her husband Jason. In this Women as Game Changers interview, Kim Graham-Nye shares how she helped found gDiapers, a disposable diaper company with cradle-to-cradle diaper “inserts” that after use can be planted.

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Greening Up the Woolworth Legacy: Women As Game Changers Summit Interview with Priscilla Woolworth

Priscilla Woolworth, named “New Green Pioneer” by Time magazine, is the founder and CEO of PriscillaWoolworth.com, an online ecocentric General Store and quarterly Almanac newsletter. In this online global summit: “Women as Game Changers” interview, Priscilla talks about how one can shape the world by their purchases.

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Breaking Down the Barriers: Women As Game Changers Summit Interview with Jamie Nack

Jaime Nack is the President of Three Squares Inc., a cutting edge sustainability consulting firm specializing in developing comprehensive sustainability plans for corporate, government and nonprofit entities. Listen to her interview as part of the Online Global Summit: “Women as Game Changers”.

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Creating a Movement Of Millions: A Women As Game Changers Summit Interview with Natalie Isaacs

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Natalie Isaacs, game changer, founder and CEO of 1 Million Women, is creating a movement of a million women and girls to take practical action to fight climate change by changing the way they live. Listen to her interview as part of the Online Global Summit: “Women as Game Changers”.

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Join Our Online Global Summit With Featured Speaker Nel Newman

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There are 3 days left till the launch of “Women As Game Changers” FREE online Global Summit. It starts this Monday, April 18th and goes through May 13th. Nell Newman, daughter of Paul Newman and co-founder of Newman’s Own Organics, is one of our featured speakers along with Priscilla Woolworth; Natalie Isaacs, the Founder of 1 Million Women; Kim Graham-Nye, Co-founder of gdiapers; Gail Larsen, Transformational Speaking; Joanna Hartcourt-Smith, author, poet & former wife of Tim Leary; Helen Chantler, Co-founder of the first fair-trade jewelery in the US— and 21 more powerful women dedicated to helping you: Tap into the collective power of women to create a vibrant network and support system to realize your Big Vision. Propel your big dream or passion into a prosperous, thriving business, organization or project that has a permanent, positive impact in your world. Learn proven, game-changing strategies and solutions that you can infuse into your vision or work immediately. Overcome the challenges you may be feel right now through the brilliant sharing of wisdom and works from women who have gone beyond their own limitations and changed the world dramatically. Get so inspired that you are unstoppable. When you register, you will get in your inbox one […]

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Activate the Game-changer in You! Our FREE Online Global Summit will show you how

On Monday, April 18th, the Women As Game Changers free online Global Summit will launch, featuring interviews with Nell Newman of Newman’s Own Organics, Priscilla Woolworth, Natalie Isaacs of One Million Women, Kim Graham-Nye who was named one of Fortunes 10 Most Powerful Woman Entrepreneurs in 2011 and 25 more Powerful Woman Game Changers.

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Picturing Women Farmers

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Audra Mulkern writes and photographs “The Female Farmer Project” — a chronicle of in-depth stories about the rise of women working in agriculture across the country and around the world.

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Shark Tank Funds Fewer Women Than Men, With Less Money

Women Start Ups Underfunded

When Ann Crady Weiss pitched her first start up — a social network known as Maya’s Mom that would allow mothers to seek advice and share their experiences — male investors weren’t exactly enamored with the idea. “There were many investors I spoke to who said moms don’t have time for social networks,” Weiss told Mashable. Weiss would, of course, prove those investors wrong: Maya’s Mom would raise $1 million in angel funding in 2006 before being acquired by a division of mega baby brand Johnson & Johnson a year later. But Weiss’ story isn’t exactly shocking or unique: it’s well-known that women in tech aren’t embraced by the primarily male venture capitalist community. Only about 5% of venture capital for new startups goes to companies headed by women. Now Weiss is the co-founder and CEO of her second startup: Hatch Baby, which produces products to help new parents, like a changing pad that tracks a baby’s weight, growth, and feeding patterns. While Hatch Baby has already brought in $7 million in Series A funding, Weiss turned to an unusual source of funding for a proven Silicon Valley CEO: ABC’s “Shark Tank.” The competition show, in which entrepreneurs pitch celebrity […]

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The Women Behind Nix Hydra Are Shaking Up The Gaming World

Lina Chen and Naomi Ladizinsky, founders of Nix Hydra

Four years ago, Lina Chen and Naomi Ladizinsky’s plan to shake up the gaming world on behalf of girls seemed exceedingly improbable, even to them. Chen had a psychology liberal arts degree and Ladizinsky a film studies degree, both from Yale, where they’d met. They were out to disrupt one of the world’s most elite, tech-driven men’s clubs from a tiny office in Hollywood, yet, as Chen recalls with a ripple of laughter, “We didn’t have experience or money. We’d never worked as executives, and we had no connections in tech, startup or the gaming industry. And we didn’t have a product!” Neither of these two L.A. transplants knew how to code, so they taught themselves online. That all seems like a lifetime ago, given what has happened since. Early this year, their Los Angeles company, Nix Hydra, a rare gaming firm founded by women to create games for girls and women, will launch Egg!, a more complex successor to their wildly popular 2013 mobile pet game, Egg Baby. The two long-haired, soft-spoken co-founders of Nix Hydra are now in an enviable position, with just over $5.6 million from investors including venture capital firm Foundry Group, a built-in audience awaiting […]

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Truly Human Leadership: Why We Should Value Our People

Value People To Make A Good Team

“I think we have to become more conscious of the kind of cultures that we create in organizations. We want to create cultures where human beings are empowered, they flourish and they’re able to self-actualize themselves.” These are the words of Whole Foods Market Co-CEO John Mackey during an interview with Steve Forbes on his book “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business”. In the book, Mackey outlines four principles by which some of America’s most successful and highly regarded companies operate: higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture/management. I can identify with these four principles and strive to implement similar ideas within my own organization. I am particularly passionate about creating a people-centric culture that encourages growth of our team members, improves our productivity, and enhances our ability to innovate and respond to challenges. During my professional journey from Wall Street to state government to economic development, I have seen the differences between companies that focus on their people and those that do not. It is evident to me that strong, smart and healthy organizations are built by employees who feel valued and are clear about their roles and responsibilities. I recently attended a three-day training […]

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