EWN Announces LINKED IN Group for MEMBERS!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  August 2008

 

Empowering Women Network, Inc. (EWN) announces the addition of an EWN Linked In Group for its members. The linked in group will be a valuable addition to EWN's Services and position the organization to add Virtual Membership later in 2008!

 

www.linkedin.com  

Search Groups:  Empowering Women Network, Inc.

 

For more information info@impoweringwomen.net

 

EWN Launches EWN Pod Casts & Blog
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August 7, 2007

For IMMEDIATE Release

 

Empowering Women Network announces launch of EWN Podcasts:  http://ewn.libsyn.com

www.blog.empoweringwomen.net

EWN Celebrates 6 Years

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 26, 2008

 

EWN Celebrated her 6th year Anniversary at IIT's Rice Lake Campus, Wheaton IL on June 19th, 2008.  Over the last 6 years EWN has become an industry leader in the advancement of professional women and the largest professional women's organization in the Midwest.  

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What a great anniversary event last week! We had the pleasure and honor of hearing the amazing and talented Georgia Dudley talk about the importance of supporting the Women's Team--not just each of us as individuals. She hammered in the idea that when another women wins, we all win. When she wins, our daughters and granddaughters all win.

Did you miss it? Never fear! You can hear the entire audio of her fantastic speech for FREE! It's just over 35 minutes long and GREAT for burning to a CD and listening in the car on the way to work. Or just listen directly from your computer, no iPod necessary! 

To play directly, click this link or cut and paste into your browser: http://media.libsyn.com/media/ewn/WomensTeam6_19_08.mp3 

Heidi Miller, Heidi Miller Productions
Vickie Austin's Golden Rolodex Strikes Again!
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Hello, fellow networkers!

If you haven't already heard Vicki Austin's Golden Rolodex talk, you should! Don't have time? Why not download it, burn it to a CD and listen to it later? Or just listen from your computer when you have time?

The latest episode of Diary of a Shameless Self-Promoter podcast is a chat with Vicki about why some of us fear networking and how to make it fun. It's 33 minutes of fantastic, fun information!
 
EWN Moves into Rockford, IL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  November 2007

 

Empowering Women Network, Inc. (EWN) announces plans to provide services for professional women in the Rockford, IL area. In February 2008 the Rockford team will hold its first EWN Monthly Meeting.  

 

For more information and to join the ROCKFORD area contact EWN Regional Director Laura Pomerene laura.pomerene@bankatfirstnational.com 

 

EWN Member Carolyn Gable on "The BIG Idea" With Donny Deutsch.
Just wanted to let you know that I received a call yesterday from CNBC and, as a result, the studio is flying Carolyn to NY this afternoon for a taping of "The BIG Idea" with Donny Deutsch.  The show will air tomorrow night, May 14, at 9:00pm our time. 
 
As you can imagine, Carolyn is very excited and I'm sure she would be pleased to have you catch the show if you are available.  Please let anyone know who would like to see her 'in action'.  Thanks for your continued friendship and support.
EWN Founder, Georgia Dudley, Nominated for 2007 ATHENA International Award

FOR IMMEDIATE Release:

 

EWN Founder - Georgia Dudley Nominated for 2007 ATHENA International Award.

 

Award luncheon will be held Monday, November 5th at Chicago's Palmer House Hilton.  For more information www.athenainternational.org

http://www.athenafoundation.org/pages/2007_chicago

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ATHENA Award Criteria
ATHENA Award Recipients are individuals who:

  • Demonstrate excellence, creativity and initiative in their business or profession
  • Provide valuable service by contributing time and energy to improve the quality of life for others in the community
  • Actively assist women in realizing their full leadership potential
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    Partnering in the fight againt cancer
    Partnering in the fight against cancer

    By Janice Youngwith
    Wednesday, May 28, 2008

    "It's not simply something they do, it's a commitment that literally permeates the organization," says the American Cancer Society's Rita Forden, vice president of distinguished giving.

    Forden applauds the cancer commitment of Deerfield-based Walgreens, among the first major Illinois' employers making a commitment to corporate partnering in the battle against cancer.

    As the largest drug-store chain in the United States in terms of sales volume, Walgreens, says Forden, has a time-honored commitment to the American Cancer Society through its involvement in many volunteer events and customer engagement. That commitment, across all levels of the organization, resulted in receipt of the 2007 ACS Corporate IMPACT award honoring companies raising at least $1 million or more during the calendar year.

    Motorola, United Airlines, Boeing Corp, Dominick's and Pampered Chef are among other major Illinois employers formalizing their commitment to partner in the fight against cancer.

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    RR Donnelley Names Dr. Damayanti Vasudevan Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion

    CHICAGO -  R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (NYSE:RRD) today named Dr. Damayanti Vasudevan as Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion, a newly created position. She will be dedicated to strengthening RR Donnelley's ability to serve diverse customers by ensuring that the company's business practices are inclusive of people of the highest integrity and ability with a variety of backgrounds and credentials.

    Dr. Vasudevan, 43, will be responsible for continuing to accelerate inclusion and diversity at all levels of the company by establishing and implementing key workplace, marketplace and community outreach strategies that align with and support the new RR Donnelley's business and growth strategies.

    Over the span of a 22-year career, Dr. Vasudevan has developed numerous programs and tools to enable individual and organizational growth. For the past ten years, her primary focus has been on helping corporations to develop and implement strategies for leveraging business opportunities in a diverse environment. In 1999, she joined RR Donnelley, where she has held the positions of Director, Training and Organizational Development in the Logistics business unit and Director, Diversity and Organizational Effectiveness.

    "Damayanti has been a driving force at RR Donnelley in developing, promoting and implementing a strategy that values differences and attracts and retains the talent required to help us excel in the world in which we do business," said Mark A. Angelson, Chief Executive Officer of RR Donnelley. "She brings to her elevated position a unique combination of industry expertise, passion and leadership skills that will help us to achieve our goal of making RR Donnelley a champion of diversity. I look forward to working with her as we shape the RR Donnelley of the future."

    EWN Board Members Featured in CRAINS Chicago!

    Congratulations to Deanna Salo (EWN Advisory Board) and Heather Locus (EWN Leadership Team) on being featured in Crains today!   It’s a good article and interesting to see how lives change when you choose to be a working mom vs. an at-home mom.   Here’s the link in case you haven’t yet seen the article

    http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?articleId=29455

     

    Empowering Women Network helps businesswomen make money!

    By Emily Udell
    Medill News Service
    Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006

    When Georgia Dudley incorporated the Empowering Women Network Inc. in 2002, she did it before she’d signed up a single member. But Dudley wasn’t worried about finding professional women to join her for-profit organization.

    “Before I started EWN, I found out what people wanted to buy,” Dudley said.

    Seventeen women attended the first meeting at her home in Glen Ellyn, and membership has been growing since then, primarily through viral networking. Membership has doubled each year, and the network maintains a 65 percent to 75 percent renewal rate.

    Now, it boasts more than 600 members, including 16 corporations, and represents myriad fields, including real estate, marketing and banking.

    By providing company-hosted roundtable discussions, speaker sessions and mentorship, the professional women’s organization helps entrepreneurs turn good ideas into success stories.

    “Often women open their own businesses (and) they end up with a hobby rather than a profitable business,” said advisory board member Barbara Bruno, owner and president of Chicago-based staffing companies HR Search Inc. and Good as Gold Training.

    As of 2004, there were approximately 10.6 million private companies that were at least 50 percent women-owned. They generated $2.4 trillion in sales and employed 19.1 million people, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research.

    In Illinois, there were approximately 460,000 companies that were at least 50 percent women owned, slightly more than half of all privately-held firms in the state. Between 1997 and 2004, the number of these firms grew by 18 percent.

    While businesswomen are making gains, they still contend with old challenges. “Some of the same issues that I faced 30 years ago are still there and they shouldn’t be,” Bruno said.

    Decades after the women’s movement, 35 percent of the top 50 public companies in the Chicago area have no women top wage earners, according to the Chicago Network, a professional women’s organization.

    “The women’s revolution struck a match,” Dudley said. “It was extreme, but it opened the doors for a more temperate approach.”

    Individual, entrepreneurial members pay $300 to $500 annually. Corporate members pay $2,500 to $5,000, and include IBM, R.R. Donnelley & Sons and Tribune Co.

    “It is more than just a networking group,” said Debra DeFrancesco, who became a member while she was establishing her business as an independent sales contractor for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. “Being with professional women that are willing to give back is a huge asset.”

    A recent study by the San Mateo, Calif.-based SuccessFactors found many companies unprepared for the widening talent gap spurred by baby boomer retirement. Of respondents, 46 percent reported difficulty finding and promoting talent internally.

    This is where Dudley’s company comes in. As she sees it, corporations benefit from membership because they promote their own “women-friendly” image and can identify potential leaders among those who become active in EWN.

    “The key for these companies is they want to maintain their high-potential leaders,” she said. “They can see who rises up and gets involved.”

     

    EWN Member Jennifer Wilken Elected
    Jennifer Wilken, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones was recently elected as Development Vice President for the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation.  This national board position enables Jennifer to blend her passion for educating women along with her ability to gather more fundraising dollars to futher the work of the Educational Foundation.  The AAUW Educational Foundation is the largest provider of scholarships for women pursuing graduate degrees. This year the AAUW Educational Foundation released it's research publication "Behind the Pay Gap" which illustrates the continued wage gap between men and women in the workplace.  http://www.aauw.org/research/all.cfm
    10 Traits of a Successful Woman
    http://www.womenentrepreneur.com/article/1330.html
    Candi Castleberry-Singleton to Lead Motorola Global Inclusion

    SCHAUMBURG, ILL. – 23 October 2006 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has named Candi Castleberry-Singleton vice president of global inclusion. Castleberry-Singleton joins Motorola after five years at Sun Microsystems, where she designed the corporation’s first integrated inclusion and diversity strategy as director of global inclusion and diversity.

    Castleberry-Singleton will focus on developing and implementing a global Motorola strategy that reflects Motorola’s commitment to inclusion in the marketplace, workforce and workplace. The three-year strategy will center on embedding inclusive practices into talent management processes and community, supplier and customer initiatives. She also will coach and counsel senior executives and partner with key business process owners to build sustainable business practices.

    Prior to Sun Microsystems, Castleberry-Singleton worked in sales, product marketing, training and sales management at Xerox Corporation for 12 years.

    A recipient of the 2004 Women of Color in Technology Award, Castleberry-Singleton holds a master’s degree in business from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s degree in legal studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a graduate of the Stanford University Human Resources Executive Program. Her board memberships include Diversity Best Practices, Linkage Diversity Summit, League of Black Women and Women of Color in Technology Alumni Association. She is a former co-chair of The Conference Board’s Diversity Business Council.

    About Motorola
    Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $35.3 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit www.motorola.com

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    Motorola, Inc.
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    tama.mcwhinney@motorola.com