Leadership Skills

How to Identify and Avoid the Glass Cliff as a Female Executive

If you’ve spent any time in the corporate world, you may be aware of the glass ceiling. Despite the growing national conversation about equality, women in business still struggle to advance beyond a certain point within their careers.

The Road to Business Success Begins with Knowing the Numbers

Ivy Slater was a successful business owner, popular speaker and highly credentialed mentor when she first considered her fourth career avenue. Slater recognized much of her career was built with the help of strong, female mentorship, and she wanted to put what she learned from these women on paper. So she did.

Starting Meaningful Conversations About Racial Inequity

Conversations about racial inequity are happening all around us – at home, with friends and at work. The Key4Women team has put together some tips to help you prepare to be an integral part of these important discussions.

Navigating COVID-19: Practical Advice from a Key4Women Expert – Kristen Lundbeck

The extended Key4Women® team is busy leaning in to bring practical advice to others during this time of disruption resulting from COVID-19. In this edition of the Key4Women Advice Series, Kristen Lundbeck from Spectrum Reach shares her perspective on working through the challenges we currently face.

2020 Financial Confidence Survey Report

2020 has been a year of unprecedented setbacks for business owners. COVID-19 forced massive shifts in the way people run and plan for the future of their businesses. Despite these challenges, women's drive to succeed remains strong.

The Transformational Power of Gracious Leadership

Janet Smith Meeks, author of the published book Gracious Leadership: Lead Like You’ve Never Led Before discussed her book. Read exerpts here.

Webinar - SCORE: How to Pivot Your Business During the Pandemic

Opportunity can often be found in crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has created hardships for many small business owners that are unlike any other before. As a result, today’s business leaders face the challenge of finding business opportunities that are valuable enough for customers to purchase despite facing a public health crisis. But how?

Navigating 2020: Practical Advice from Key4Women Experts

Members of Key4Women® are leaning in and bringing practical advice forward as we all navigate the complexities of 2020. In this compilation article of the Key4Women Advice Series, six women business owners share their insights on adapting, or even pivoting, our businesses and ourselves at this very unique time in history.

Recruiting More Women Employees to Your Business

Learn about why it's more crucial than ever to hire and promote women employees into leadership roles to help your company improve its bottom line.

How Women Can Work Together to Pave the Way to the C-Suite

This whitepaper shares insights on how women can defy the statistics, restructure a company’s organizational structure, and put themselves in a better position to succeed.

Discussing the Gender Gap as a Woman in Leadership

Gender diversity is a key component of any company’s success — particularly when it comes to leadership roles. While society as a whole strives to rectify the current pay and leadership gender gap, those who hold a lot of influence and power to implement the necessary changes are women currently in leadership positions.

Podcast - Human-Centered Design: Making Your Customer the Focal Point of Your Business

Companies that solicit feedback and advice from their customers – and apply it to their business – are more successful. According to research by Deloitte, client-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies not focused on the customer.