| "Good News About Women on Corporate Boards in California -- Again! Press release
May 12, 2008 Women Directors on the 2008 Fortune 1000 Corporate Boards based in California [.PDF]
Champion Boards and NewsOnWomen.com track the progress of women on corporate boards. Get the facts at:
Women on Boards of Directors: 2008
Listen to the facts at: Paths
Into the Corporate Boardroom [Audio: MP3 10 minutes]
Elizabeth Ghaffari of Champion Boards is interviewed
by Frances Anderton, Los Angeles radio producer and host, about
the career paths chosen by women on corporate boards of directors
at California-based Fortune 1000 firms. Some surprising conclusions!
(1/5/07)
Fortune Magazine (April 21, 2008 issue) reports that
the number of women CEOs among the Fortune 1000 declined by 2
from 2007 to 2008. Four of last year's firms with women CEOs went
off the list and one woman CEO retired (Margaret C. Whitman of
eBay). Two new names were added (Anne Stevens of Carpenter Technology
and Peggy Fowler of Portland General Electric) while Irene Rosenfeld
of Kraft Foods returned to the list. See: Women
CEOs on the Fortune 1000.
"How Women Directors Succeed" in THE CORPORATE BOARD, March/April 2007 (Vol. XXVIII, No. 163): insight into the real career paths taken by talented women directors.
Press release. Article.
[PDF]
Selena Maranjian of The Motley Fool reports that Champion Boards offers "some good food for thought" in the article More Women Than You Think. (12/20/06).
Who's to blame? Whose fault IS it? What has to happen if we want more women on boards? See the Champion Board essay at The Supply of Women for Director Roles. [.pdf]
Advice from the Talented Women on Boards
Women who actually SERVE on public corporate boards of directors have been telling us for years what it takes to reach that unique level of leadership. Why haven't we listened to what they have to say? What are the lessons we could learn from them?
End of an Era: Good-Bye to the Only F500 Board with a Majority of Female Directors
We ARE beginning to see more women
on boards of directors at U.S. corporations. Women are beginning
to move forward from their emergence into leadership and top management
positions; they are graduating from law schools, medical schools
and business schools in record numbers. Boards of directors are
pursuing diversity candidates across the nation. Major forward-thinking
director training programs are actively seeking female and diversity
candidates for their governance programs.
A major part of this trend is that we are beginning to look at the problem from a new perspective -- the way Champion Boards looks at the challenge.
At Champion Boards, we also conduct surveys -- but we do so to learn about what DOES work. Where ARE women getting on boards? What economic sectors? What geographic areas? What size boards? How are the women and the boards doing it? What are the qualifications of the women? their experience? their professional credentials?
At Champion Boards, we look at the national and international experience -- again, to understand what works and why?
At Champion Boards, we offer a different perspective on building great boards of directors. Give us a call when you're serious about growing your business -- with the strategic assistance of a champion board of advisors or directors.
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On A Personal Note
. . . from Elizabeth Ghaffari, President/CEO of Technology Place
Inc. and the founder of Champion Boards.
You probably want to know more about me and why I'm investing
my time and energies to advocate on behalf of other women to take
leadership positions on boards of directors in the 21st century.
Fair enough. . . . more.
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