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Continue to #EmbraceEquity for women in tech with resources from Spaulding Ridge and our speakers from WE23 and WE22.

Women Elevate23 Charities of Choice

WE at Spaulding Ridge is dedicated to lifting women up across the world. In honor of this mission, our sponsors donated to one of three charities. Learn more about these charities below:

  1. Icon New Moms
  2. Icon Connections for Abused Women and their Children
  3. Icon WGIRLS

New Moms partners with young moms and their children who are experiencing poverty and homelessness.

They provide critical services and coaching around housing, job training, and family support for families in Chicagoland. In its programs, young moms define goals and cultivate their inherent abilities while building a strong foundation that will lead to long-term family well-being.

Learn more about New Moms

CAWC provides immediate safety and builds long-term solutions to abuse.

Connections for Abused Women and their Children (CAWC) is committed to ending domestic violence. Using a self-help, empowerment approach, we provide a shelter for adults and children, counseling, advocacy, and a 24-hour hotline for people affected by domestic violence. We work for social change through education, service collaboration, and institutional advocacy.

Learn more about CAWC

WGIRLS INC. was created to meet the needs of underserved women and children in the local community. 

Today through volunteerism & fundraising initiatives, WGIRLS Inc. creates reverberating change in thousands of lives through its continued commitment to meet the needs of women and children in local communities throughout the country.

Learn more about WGIRLS

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SR Podcast Recommendation ft. WE23 Speaker, Elizabeth Andrew:

Make It Happen Mondays – B2B Sales Talk with John Barrows: Elizabeth Andrew: Overcoming the Generational Divide in Your Career on Apple Podcasts

Recommended from Elizabeth Andrew

Thursday Night Sales – The #1 Weekly Virtual Sales Happy Hour
Hosted by Amy Volas and Scott Leese

Get the insights, expertise, viewpoints, and tools you need to advance your skills, hit your numbers, and impress your boss!

Explore here

Women in Sales Communities & Organizations: Women in Sales
Slack Channel to connect with other Women in Sales!

Join Community Here

Women in Sales Everywhere (WISE)

WISE, a division of CloserIQ, is a global community dedicated to developing the next generation of female sales leaders.

CEB data shows that, globally, women represent 4 of 10 entry-level sales employees, 3 in 10 first- and mid-level management roles, and 2 in 10 department head or general manager type roles.

Our goal is to create a place for women in sales, regardless of geography or seniority, to meet peers, find mentors and create growth opportunities, in order to systematically change the executive suite statistics in our industry.

Join Community Here

Recommended Books

The Good Boss: 9 Ways Every Manager Can Support Women at Work
Kate Eberle Walker (Author)

In The Good Boss, CEO and business consultant Kate Eberle Walker offers timely, tactical advice based on her experience coaching managers, as well as the lessons she learned working her own way up the corporate ladder. Eberle Walker outlines nine straightforward rules that any manager can follow to help the women on their team—whether they oversee one, one hundred, or one thousand employees.

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How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive
Jennifer Brown (Author)

“We know why diversity is important, but how do we drive real change at work? Diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brown provides a step-by-step guide for the personal and emotional journey we must undertake to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.”

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Unapologetically Ambitious

“Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley’s first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book—named a Best Business Book of the Year by Fortune and Bloomberg—offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO.”

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success 
Carol S. Dweck (Author)

“After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.”

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The Platform Revolution – Recommended by Women Elevate22 speaker, Eli Potter
Marshall W Van Alstyne (Author) Sangeet Paul Choudary (Author) Geoffrey G. Parker (Author)

“Platform Revolution teaches newcomers how to start and run a successful platform business, explaining ways to identify prime markets and monetize networks. Addressing current business leaders, the authors reveal strategies behind some of today’s up-and-coming platforms, such as Tinder and SkillShare, and explain how traditional companies can adapt in a changing marketplace.”

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Recommended by Women Elevate22 speaker, Delphine Bernard
Patrick M. Lencioni (Author)

“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a business book by consultant and speaker Patrick Lencioni first published in 2002. It describes the many pitfalls that teams face as they seek to “grow together”. This book explores the fundamental causes of organizational politics and team failure.”

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Death by Meeting – Recommended by Women Elevate22 speaker, Delphine Bernard
Patrick M. Lencioni (Author)

“In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary.”

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The Art of Strategic Partnering – Recommended by Women Elevate22 speaker, Stephanie Cramp
Mark Sochan (Author)

The Art of Strategic Partnering is a how-to guide for creating and managing successful strategic partnerships. Written for entrepreneurial leaders and executives, this book shows you how to grow a company and achieve game-changing results. Learn tried-and-true lessons from a Silicon Valley industry expert who has successfully negotiated and managed over 150 strategic partnerships.

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The Mentor Method

Women Elevate22 Speaker: Janice Omadeke, CEO & Founder

The Mentor Method is a mentorship software that works to increase the retention, engagement, and development of employees. The platform helps HR and DEI leaders create custom mentorship programs that advance employee development and business goals by providing a platform that helps build mentorship programs at scale with measurable data.

Learn more

Most Recommended Articles

Julia Boorstin: What Women Leaders Teach Us, Forbes

What struck journalist Julia Boorstin as interesting when researching her book, When Women Lead, was not how underrepresented women were but rather how successful they were when given the opportunity. “When women have defied the odds, their leadership skills and strategies have made them exceptional and offer a lot for everyone to learn from. I think that we should have more women in leadership positions because all the data indicates they do better.”

How Successful Women Sustain Career Momentum, Harvard Business Review

The authors, executive coaches for women leaders, wanted to understand why some women are able to sustain and maintain career momentum, despite the systemic, structural problems women — and especially women of color — face in the workplace. They interviewed 37 women in senior leadership roles, identifying three behaviors that helped these women sustain momentum: a focused drive, an incessant desire to learn, and an agile mindset.

Don’t Underestimate the Power of Women Supporting Each Other at Work, Harvard Business Review

Some senior-level women tend to distance themselves from junior women, often to be more accepted by their male peers. Trying to separate oneself from a marginalized group is, sadly, a strategy that’s frequently employed. So, what are women in the workplace to do, when research shows that we’re penalized for trying to lift each other up?

Venture Beat, Recommended by Women Elevate22 Speaker Eli Potter

Project Implicit, Recommended by Women Elevate22 Speaker Stacey Moore

Research & Studies

Women in the Workplace, McKinsey & Company

The Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements have forced people in positions of power—namely, the white men who dominate institutional leadership roles—to realize they must personally step up to make organizations more fair and inclusive. That means playing a truly active role in helping marginalized colleagues advance (instead of just delegating diversity efforts to human resources).

The Double-Bind Dilemma for Women in Leadership, Workplaces that Work Women

Supportive male allies allow themselves to be educated on the issues their female colleagues face in the workplace and, most importantly, they believe them. They do not dismiss or get defensive if a woman calls them out on something. Most men want to help — they just don’t know how. Creating awareness through dialogue and open communication allows for male allies to give actionable support in the workplace.

Miss out on any of our Women Elevate23 sessions?

We understand busy schedules. Feel free to browse recordings of our sessions and share with your network!

Watch now on-demand

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Women Elevate22: Women Leaders in VC: Changing the Future of Venture Capital
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Women Elevate22: Breaking the Bias in Tech with Josiane Leclerc, Director of Business Transformation at Dandurand
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Women Elevate22: Reflections on Reaching the C-Suite and Serving on a Public Company Board