Tina Y. Young started QCM with the goal of “Inspiring Excellence through Training”. QCM has served as a management and technical assistance supplier for the U.S. Small Business Administration. As a learning and development professional, Young is a highly-sought trainer/certified facilitator and strategic business leadership coach and she has held v...

Karen Maples is the founder and president of Myutiq, an innovation strategy consulting firm. Recognized as a thought leader and accomplished strategy expert, Maples established the company because of her passion to help companies build innovation capacity for long-term viability and growth. Maples is deeply dedicated to working on global issues imp...

A Harvard Co-Owner, Nathalie spearheads Harvard’s company-wide strategy efforts. She is the Owner and CEO of Harvard Services Group (Janitorial Services) and Harvard Enterprise Risk Solutions (Strategic Consultative Security Services). Before becoming an entrepreneur, Nathalie spent her career building brands globally for Fortune 500 companies. She...

Dee Hawking is President and CEO of A Better Answer Call Centers®. Her business insight and leadership capabilities have placed A Better Answer Call Centers® in an enviable position to be the only call center and answering service in North America to receive the Association of Tele-messaging Services’ (ATSI) highest and one-time-only award, the Mis...

Cristina Vicini is President of The International Alliance for Women. She is an international senior executive and board member with innovative companies and charities in Europe and North America, with a special focus on International Business Strategy and Sustainable Development, Cross-Sector Digital Innovation and New Ventures, Global Diversity a...

Kris Oswold is a leader in global business process design and organizational transformation. As the director of supplier diversity, she brings a unique perspective to the role. In addition to being passionate about expanding opportunities for diverse suppliers to transact with UPS, Kris brings experience from across the UPS enterprise identifying w...

Bonnie Nawara is the Interim President and CEO of the Association of Women’s Business Centers. She is also the CEO of Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women, a Women’s Business Center in Grand Rapids, MI. A former business owner, she is considered a leader in the local business community and was recognized as one of the Top Fifty Most Influential Wom...

Jayco MMI innovates, designs and manufactures human machine interfaces for aerospace, medical devices, security, communications, and industrial applications ranging from mobile devices to rack-mount systems. Established over 27 years Jayco has earned the loyalty of customers and employees. We are national and international with clients including Fo...

Kris Martinez is owner and creative director of Martinez Creative Group, a digital marketing agency based in St. Charles, IL. MCG provides creative, branding, and integrated communications for a diverse range of clients on a national basis through print, mobile, digital, and video. Kris has over 23 years experience creating award-winning marketing ...

Cathy is a successful entrepreneur with experience working with global corporate clients across a wide range of markets and industries. Her passion for building businesses has led her to the launch of Liderança Group, Assessment Leaders, Leadership Balance, Be Well Perform Well, and Business Builders. She is a dynamic speaker with an engaging perso...

Merrilee Kick is the CEO/Founder of BuzzBallz/Southern Champion, the only woman-owned Distillery/Winery in the United States, located in Carrollton, Texas.  BuzzBallz/Southern Champion makes ready-to-drink cocktails called BuzzBallz, as well as spirits like rum, vodka, gin and bourbon, which are sold in 46 states and 7 countries in convenience...

As an entrepreneur since the age of 12, Desiree Doubrox has been the founder/owner of several businesses, including the Marina Mermaid, A Models Media, Lookin Good Productions and Celebrity Auctions. She is currently the CEO of HomWork in California. An Empowered Woman has developed into an exclusive global networking community and resource center ...

Nicole Cober is principal managing partner for Cober, Johnson and Romney, a Washington D.C. firm providing consulting, legal and strategic services to nonprofit, private and public sector clients.  Earlier in her career, she spent eight years as owner and operator of a day spa and hair salon chain that served as a revitalization catalyst in a ...

Fran Biderman Gross is the Founder, CEO and Strategista of Advantages. After losing her first husband and business partner to cancer in 2001, Fran assumed the leadership of Advantages and grew it from a local printing business to an Inc. 500 national marketing and branding agency. With 20+ years of marketing expertise, Fran leads her clients on a j...

“You have to see it to be it.” These words have been spoken over the years by trailblazers who have used their achievements as a platform to inspire other women and young girls. In that spirit, DevMar Products, LLC teamed up with Enterprising Women Magazine to present Nashville’s first Young Enterprising Women Mentoring Forum. This national program...

Today, the winners of CloudNOW’s seventh annual Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud Innovation Awards were announced, recognizing ten outstanding women in the industry. CloudNOW is a non-profit consortium of the leading women in cloud computing, providing a forum for networking, knowledge sharing, mentoring and economic growth, including a Future Lead...

Recognizing magazine media's thought leaders, trendsetters and newsmakers.NEW YORK – The Grand Ballroom of The Yale Club in Manhattan was packed with some of magazine media’s brightest minds on Thursday to celebrate Folio:’s list of the top 100 innovators, entrepreneurial thinkers, and industry-disruptors from over the past year. The annual list, w...

RALEIGH, N.C., December 4, 2018 –Monica Smiley, CEO and publisher of Enterprising Women magazine, has appointed Peggy Gionta, Kris Martinez and Monika Moss-Gransberry to the Enterprising Women Advisory Board. All three have built substantial and lasting businesses based upon their respective areas of expertise and mutual passion for their clients’ ...

  Women government leaders, senior executives and entrepreneurs from around the world are marking July 4-6, 2019 on their calendars as the date of the 2019 Global Summit of Women in Basel, Switzerland. The premier global business and economic forum for women for the past 29 years, the Summit looks forward to bringing over 1,000 influential leaders in business and government from 60+ countries to Switzerland, world-renowned not only for its beauty but also for its formidable financial and healthcare centers. Switzerland, with a wealth of women business achievers in different capacities, serves as an apt venue for the Global Summit of Women and its focus on promoting women’s economic advancement. Topping several Quality of Life surveys and ranked second in the 2018 UNDP Human Development Report, Switzerland is especially suited to the theme of the 2019 Summit – Women: Re-Defining Success, which explores the ways in which access to equitable pay, leadership roles, and the ability to have ‘success’ at home as well as at work comprise women’s sense of well-being as economic stakeholders. Switzerland has pending pay equity legislation for consideration by its Parliament as well as a quota law for women on boards. “We are so pleased to bring the 2019 Global Summit of Women to Switzerland, specifically to Basel, given its role not just as an art center but also the headquarters for some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical/healthcare/biotech companies. “I know that women traveling to Basel for the Summit will find it welcoming and an inviting location to make contacts with Swiss businesswomen eager to connect with their global counterparts.”Women and men interested in being a part of this engaging, solutions-oriented gathering of high caliber participants are invited to come to Basel to take part in the information-sharing, skills-building and global networking which have made the Global Summit of Women the leading forum for women in business globally. To hear a welcome from the Head of Basel’s of International Affairs, click the video above.Registration for the 2019 Summit is now open. For more information on the 2019 Summit and to reserve your space in this global gathering, go to www.globewomen.org/globalsummit.

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 16, 2018 – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-ID) and Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, passed a Senate resolution commemorating the 30th anniversary of H.R. 5050, the Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988. Last month, the National Women’s Busine...

MILWAUKEE – October 8, 2018 – Milwaukee Women inc, a nonprofit organization that works to achieve a balanced representation of women on boards of directors to maximize the performance of Wisconsin businesses, today released its 15th annual research report, the “Power of 3.” Highlighting research from Catalyst that notes companies with three or more...

HELENA RODRIGUES has a Philosophy degree and a Masters in Marketing specialized in Key Accounts Strategy and Management.  She worked for 13 years in the pharmaceutical industry, developing management, consulting and marketing skills, among others.  In 2013, she founded Think Strategic, aiming to provide consulting services to different co...

ATLANTA – November 12, 2018– The Greater Women’s Business Council (GWBC), the largest provider of certification and development resources for women business enterprises (WBEs) in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, hosted its annual LACE (Ladies Achieving Continuous Excellence) Awards Gala on Nov. 9 at the St. Regis hotel in Atlanta. This a...

New York, NY (November 7, 2018)— Folio:, the publishing industry’s go-to source for news, business intelligence and peer-to-peer networking, has named Monica Smiley, Editor and Publisher of Enterprising Women magazine, to its 2018 Folio: 100 Honorees. “I am proud to represent Enterprising Women in this August gathering of leaders in the print and d...