And the Round one winners are…. For the $100 giftcard to SEPHORA or LillyU Rashin M Taheri! Read Rashin’s case “It All Started With Why” here! For the $50 giftcard to SEPHORA or LillyU Hana Medin! Read Hana’s case “Nature for Nature” here! If you didn’t win don’t worry, all case authors that push “submit” by the February 24th deadline will be entered into our case study competition with the grand… Read More »Early-Bird Publishing Deadline Winners!
So it started with this article: Morons and Oxymorons: Undermining Women in Leadership I thought this title was pretty excellent.
Updated 3.7.13: NEW “Finishing School” case coaching on 3/14 and 3/19 – see below. First of all, congratulations on your nomination as a role model for girls and women in The Hot Mommas Project’s 2012-2013 Case Competition! (Not nominated? Click here). Every case that we collect serves as a valuable teaching tool for women all over the world, and we are very excited to have you contribute to what is… Read More »So You’ve Been Nominated… Now What?
When Nigella Lawson – famous British chef – refused to airbrush her stomach for a TV promotion… many probably thought “A – MEN!” Whether you think Nigella has much to air brush or not, the point is this: Nigella is honest. And her choice to be honest matters, a lot. It represents confidence and comfort and acceptance in and of herself. She is a role model for girls and women… Read More »Nigella Lawson Refuses to Airbrush
The Hot Mommas Project is an award-winning leadership project increasing confidence of women and girls through exposure to role models. Our founder teaches the nationally award winning Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership at the George Washington University School of Business, Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence. You don’t have to be a momma to be a “Hot Momma”: All dynamic women over 18 may share their story. ….Chelsea is a college student battling lupus.… Read More »2013 Hot Mommas Nomination for Role Models/Mentors
When Harvard Business School Professor Howard Stevenson almost died, he woke up to the real meaning of work life balance: It’s about priorities. That is: What is most important to you. Balancing a bunch of things and expecting A+ results in all of them is a recipie for disaster. Yet, many of us try to do that on a daily basis.
You’ve often heard us joke (and whine) about balance, but Lydia Fernandes of MotivMode went straight for joy. Her daughters inspire her to find it. Think “tutu.” “My daughter began crying in the mornings about not wanting to take the bus to school….Helping her daughter use that self-awareness to work through…the situation…was this child’s first taste of self-empowerment.” Read More…
Businesses often prepare for worst case scenarios. What if the CEO gets hit by a bus?…How SEVERE an analogy does it take for you to “let go” and pass off responsibility? Enter: The “If I Died” List. Take Xandra, for example. There Xandra sat …in her car.. in the parking lot…outside the hospital. “I’m in labor,” she texted from her Blackberry: Still wired, still connected. Xandra is still alive and… Read More »#15a: DELEGATE – Your Work Life Solution
When the Hot Mommas Project and the George Washington School of Business Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence did a national survey of 269 high-drive working women, it was in the midst of the opting out media firestorm. It was clear what wasn’t working. The story that wasn’t being told was this: What WAS working?
RuPaul said it best: Work It Girl