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Women Executives Push the Consumer Financial Protection Agency on the Hill

Business Women Tell Senators the CFPA is Both Women Consumers and Business Women

“Washington, DC – On Tuesday March 2, 2010, a dozen senior women executives from Wall Street and major United States companies will travel to Washington, DC to support the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. They will make the case that the agency would benefit women, both consumers and business women.

The group, including the founder of 85 Broads, co-founder of Global Compliance Risk Management Corporation and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, will tell Congress members that too many women have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and left consumers without adequate protections."

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Posted on March 1, 2010 – 2:49 pm
Published by Americans for Financial Reform

Gayle writes on why you should never dismiss the power of Afghan women.

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Originally posted on March 8, 2010 on CNN

85 Broads member Kris Ruby, founder of Ruby Media Group, shares her tips for creating a cohesive online identity in the dating world and interviews David Berkowitz, a fellow social media enthusiast and blogger.

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Originally posted on March 4, 2010.

The Connaught Group, a leading direct sales fashion company, honored the Young Women’s Leadership Network (YWLN) alumnae with the launch of “Carlisle Gives Back,” a networking power suit program on March 2. The event was held at The Connaught Group’s exclusive Carlisle Collection penthouse showroom in NYC.

At the March 2nd event, the 25 graduates and alumnae from the Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem met and mingled with many professional women, including board members and executives from YWLN, The Connaught Group, and 85 Broads. The evening focused on the art of networking. Attendees heard from experts, including Andrea Nierenberg, guest speaker and award-winning author; Ann Tisch, founder of the Young Women’s Leadership Network; Leena Gurevich, Director of Carlisle’s NY Showroom; and Krista Sande-Kerback, Director of Programming and Campus Relations at 85 Broads.

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Originally posted on March 2, 2010

“You know you shouldn’t cry at work, but there are times when it feels you just can’t help it!” proclaims the ad. “Tears in the workplace are seen as inappropriate and have adverse effects on your professional image, making you seem inept, overemotional, unable to think logically and generally incompetent.” Fortunately, for $12.95, there is a solution, which even comes with a money-back guarantee: a self-hypnosis lesson for working women. A relic of the 1970s and ‘80s, like those goofy navy blue suits that female managers wore then? No, it’s an ad currently running online.

You might suppose that since women now make up nearly 50% of the workforce, there would be less of a market for such career aids. Shouldn’t we be the ones making the rules now?

85 Broads member Shaunti Feldhahn shares her input: among her findings is that men are better able to compartmentalize what she calls “Work World” and “Personal World.” Men report that “at work, the personal world goes away.” Women who don’t follow that precept and take things personally are deemed “emotional” and “high maintenance.” Says Feldhahn: “I found that the assumption that ‘emotion’ means ‘you are not thinking’ is nearly universal among men and often lends itself to a fear of emotion getting involved.”

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Originally posted by Time.com on March 8, 2010.

International College Counselors founder Mandee Heller Adler eagerly looks for new ways to build her company.

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Posted on March 8, 2010

85 Broads Member Jodi Glickman Brown is the founder and president of communication consulting firm Great on the Job. She is the author of the forthcoming book Great on the Job, to be published by St. Martin’s Press in early 2011.

Women were among the first beneficiaries of the international community’s 2001 arrival into Afghanistan following the Taliban’s retreat. Eager to support their families, many turned to entrepreneurship – a strategy carrying the risk that when the foreigners went away, so would the market. And that scenario is now playing out in Kabul, which has seen internationals flee en masse in the wake of increasingly audacious Taliban attacks. Facing plummeting sales — down as much as 35 percent — and deserted showrooms, they are laying off staff and hunkering down in their shops in hopes that better times will soon return

85 Broads member Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is working on a book about a young Afghan entrepreneur whose business supported her family and her community during the Taliban years.

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Originally posted on February 12, 2010.

85 Broads member Danielle LaPorte talks about personal branding on Television’s Connect with Mark Kelley. What sets your personal brand apart, why you are a brand and why you need to think of yourself as a brand.

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Originally posted on CBC News on February 17, 2010.

NU’s 85 Broads Chapter was featured in the Daily Northwestern. NU’s 85 Broads President Benita Chan is quoted in the article.

85 Broads aims to attract new members
By S.K. Dachowitz

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Published: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Updated: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Published by The Daily Northwestern

In a new book by Tuck School of Business professor Ella Bell, “Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape,” Bell provides a “how to” career guide for women looking to succeed in the professional sphere of the corporate workplace. Bell held a signing for the book, which was released Feb. 26, at the Dartmouth Bookstore on Monday.

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Originally Posted on March 3, 2010.

As Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair continues to push for an agency for the financial protection of consumers as part of an overhaul of the financial system, a group of women executives are headed to Washington to speak to a group of senators about why the agency would be important for women consumers and business leaders.

On Tuesday, ten senior women executives from Wall Street and major companies, including members of 85 Broads, a global network of 20,000 women founded by Janet Hanson, who worked for Goldman Sachs [GS] at its New York headquarter, which is at 85 Broad Street.

These ten executives, including Deborah Buresh Jackson, a veteran investment banker and a former vice president of global media relations at JPMorgan Chase & Co. [JPM]; Jean W. Solomon, a real estate executive; and Jennifer S. Myers, a managing partner and co-founder of Global Compliance Risk Management Corp, will tell Congress how the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency will benefit women. These women will meet with Senators or their staff, including Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, Sen. Herb Kohl, Sen. Bob Menendez, Sen. Tim Johnson, and Sen. Kristin Gillibrand.

“Too many women have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and left consumers without adequate protections,” according to a press release issued Tuesday by Americans United for Change, a movement bringing together independent voices for new policy priorities and leadership.

With women at a higher risk for retirement insecurity, according to research from the National Institute on Retirement Security, and 32% more likely to have received subprime mortgages of all types than men, regardless of income, women need the protections that a well-regulated financial system can offer.

Tuesday’s lobby day is a follow up to a conference held in New York on Jan. 18, where over 250 women executives attended to learn about and support the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

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View from the Hill: Women Lobby for Consumer Financial Protection Agency
By Ruthie Ackerman
March 2, 2010

NEW YORK, NY, March 2, 2010 –With social media influencing the way we communicate, Perks Consulting announces today their commitment to expand their social media and technology capabilities by acquiring Esultancy, a social media consultancy based in New York.

“The marketplace has changed, as has the way consumers interact and make purchasing decisions. As consumers push their needs and demands to the companies that service them, businesses are forced to respond,” Lauren Perkins, Founder and President, Perks Consulting, said enthusiastically. This timely business move will allow Perks to build out its social media department to better serve current and future clients.

After a strong year of growth in 2009, in which Perks doubled it’s business, Esultancy is excited about Perks’ infrastructure and ability saying, “The Acquisition by Perks will build upon the core competencies of both organizations allowing Perks to deliver leading edge Social Media strategy and comprehensive marketing and technology solutions.”

With fearless vision, creative passion and aggressive drive, working in tandem with a rockstar team of business strategists, social media buffs, web designers, seasoned journalists and marketing visionaries, Perks Consulting devises strategic marketing and branding solutions that synergize both traditional and digital media to create insightful innovative campaigns. “Social media builds audiences faster. It took television 14 years to reach a market audience of 50 million people. It took Facebook two years” (Stone).

As of today, the companies will begin the execution of the acquisition in which Oz Sultan will be retained as an executive advisor to Perks Consulting through 2011. With strategy being the foundation of both businesses, the infusion of Esultancy into Perks Consulting will support the breadth of the digital reach that Perks began in 2008.

NewsOK.com. Renzi Stone, 26 Aug. 2009. Web. 9 Sept. 2009.
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ABOUT PERKS CONSULTING

Perks Consulting entered the marketing and media industry in 2004. Today, Perks Consulting is, a strategic Marketing and Branding Consultancy based in Soho, New York City. Led by Lauren Perkins, entrepreneurial business strategist and digital marketing maven, with a constant focus on emerging trends and tools to consistently exceed client objectives and achieve desired metrics.
With a brand-centric, bottom line focus cultivated by work with Nike, Crunch Fitness and Laser Cosmetica as well as consulting for ABC, Toyota and Bloomingdales the Perks Consulting team has leveraged content and event marketing tactics combined with marketing know-how to create engaging multi-faceted strategies and campaigns for clients. Perks Consulting has also worked closely with start-ups such as ADRail, Yoga Local, and AB skincare from business strategy to brand. From entrepreneurs to emerging brands including 85 Broads and eDiets, our team of experts have the industry savvy, and ability to fulfill businesses creative, marketing, and media needs.

Clip from MSNBC segment on March 1, 2010 on women executives’ trip to Washington tomorrow to meet with Senators on CFPA, featuring 85 Broads member and former Goldman Sachs Managing Director Deborah Jackson:

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Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC
March 1, 2010

Several 85 Broads members are traveling to Washington DC today to meet with US Senators regarding this legislation. These high-powered business women will sit down with top senators to talk about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Deborah Jackson moderated a fantastic 85 Broads Jam Session on January 22nd with Elizabeth Vale (Executive Director of the White House Business Council), Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law Professor and Chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel) and Diana Farrell (former Director of the McKinsey Global Institute and currently Deputy Director of the National Economic Council). They discussed what’s happening in Washington re: much needed financial regulatory reform (and its impact on consumers) currently being proposed by the Obama administration.

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For the first time in history, women are less than a percentage point away from making up the majority of the national workforce. 85 Broads member and Tuck Business School professor Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell reflects on what this means for the corporate culture and nature of work, and why we need to be realistic.

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Originally posted on 15 Feb 2010.

85 Broads member, Founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, author of “The Blue Sweater”, Jacqueline Novogratz, in her post appearing on The Huffington Post, reminds us that our time is not all that precious and that a random act of kindness can brighten a long, cold day.

85 Broads member, Forbes Woman Publisher, Moira Forbes interviews “First Lady of American magazines” Cathie Black, Hearst Magazines’ president on leadership, management style and learning from media’s titans.

85 Broads member Claire Chambers, CEO and Founder of Journelle, is as we know and Pushing Beyond founder Dan Lack discovers “an all out rockstar!” Claire grew up in Oregon, went to college in Boston, and was a management consultant for a number of years, before starting her own lingerie company, Journelle. Claire is one of the intrepid entrepreneurs speaking at 85 Broads’ “What’s Your 2020 Vision?” Conference on April 24 in New York City.

85 Broads member and personal finance expert for women, Manisha Thakor on ABC news providing advice and tips on the newly enacted credit card laws.

85 Broads member Avril David is an energy and environment analyst for Project Performance Corporation, a global management consulting firm, and a freelance writer on topics related to careers, energy, climate policy and green business.

As Avril says in her latest article on [forbes.com] “being fully competent at your job is no more than the first step.” Competence at assigned tasks are not all that you need to achieve success and become a leader.

Read Avril’s full article at: [forbes.com]