While any entrepreneur, male or female, faces a number of challenges when starting a business, women in particular are forced to overcome their own unique set of obstacles on the path to business ownership.…
BY TERRY HERNANDEZ | Executive director, Chrysalis Foundation
When I was in ninth grade, women’s history was not a subject taught at Franklin Junior High School in Des Moines. It wasn’t a course of study …
Unless you’re a political junkie, you probably missed the Washington Post story a couple weeks ago about Gov. Terry Branstad saying he is unlikely to run for another term.
The story got little play because …
Recently, a friend said to me, “Leadership has a shelf life.”
I have been thinking about that statement ever since. The definition I use for leader is someone in a position to influence the lives …
BY AMY NEBONS | Owner, Blink Events LLC
My name is Amy and I chose the road less traveled.
I’m a dreamer, a gal with a million ideas. I’m an over-calculating, over-thinking, over-analyzing …
“Don’t you love the irony?” said a voice behind me.
My old friend K.C. was walking west on Grand Avenue when we met in front of Terrace Hill.
“What irony?” I asked. “If you mean …
Do you have advice or tips to offer aspiring female leaders? Do you simply have an opinion applicable to women’s leadership? If so, Lift IOWA is seeking Iowa females to contribute guest opinion pieces …
The quarterly financial reports released by Gannett Co. Inc. and Lee Enterprises Inc. last week provide a contrast on how the two media heavyweights are confronting the historic pressures facing the nation’s newspaper industry.
The …
Thank you, Danny Beyer. And yes, I realize this section is titled for Iowa Economic Development Authority Director Debi Durham, but it’s not a misprint.
If not for the networking prowess of Beyer – a …
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