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Kelly Hoey and I had the opportunity to chat with Jocelyn Cunningham and several senior Deloitte women a few days ago. I go WAY back with Deloitte and have been impressed and amazed by how they’ve flown past their competition in what I fondly refer to as “the chick space.”

I met Mike Cook, Deloitte CEO, in the early 90’s. Mike was on the Board of Catalyst and was a huge fan of Sheila Wellington’s, Catalyst’s president. Mike had noticed that a lot of women were leaving Deloitte and he naturally assumed it was because they wanted to hang up their spikes and stay home with their kids. T…

This is a very long blog but it’s definitely worth reading — Alison’s feat, weeks after her safe return, still takes my breath away! BEST LINE: “It is important to remember the summit is only the half-way point.” THINK ABOUT IT!

After our drop-back down valley we return to BC. We are told that there will be a good weather window with no jetstream from May 22-26th, and we want to beat the crowds up high, so we leave BC at 4am on the 17th so that we are in position at the Col to go for it when the window opens. It takes us 12 hours to get to Camp 2. We are not speedy, but we are solid. W…

A recent interview with Diane Blackman (President and co-Founder of BR Public Relations) which truly captures my passion for the women in 85 Broads!

Q: Why should women join 85 Broads?

JH: The primary reason the network exists is simple: smart women want to collaborate and partner with each other in a number of exciting professional and personal ways. But first they need to be encouraged to do that. When women see other women pursuing their goals with passion and vision, they redouble their own efforts. The magic of 85 Broads is that we are a talent cultivator and a business accelerato…

If you’re in the tri-state area today you are enjoying one of the most beautiful days of 2010. Being a BC survivor, I am grateful to (still) have two extraordinary kids, two crazy dogs, a beautiful home in Bedford, and a network of fab women and many cool guy friends in my life.

This evening I will be attending a memorial service at Sloan Kettering for Meg Berte Owen, who lost her battle for life last October at the age of 37. As I love to say, Meg was pure sunshine. Meg was the bluest of blue skies. Alison Levine, who just got back from climbing Mt. Everest in Meg’s memory, will be …

Besty led an amazing live Jam Session for our members on how to get into B-School. Here is Betsy’s unique philosophy:

“Getting accepted by a business school you’ve always dreamed of does not require you to graduate as valedictorian of your university class. You don’t have to earn perfect scores on your GMAT, nor must you start your own million-dollar business and win the Nobel peace prize. Rather, I believe that every candidate to business school owns an exceptional story, and that story is the key to your application.”

Master Admissions is Betsy’s very cool biz — to learn more go…

We had a fabulous 85 Broads event at Hult in Cambridge on Thursday night. Got to meet some terrific MBA students and reconnect with some of our great members including Kathleen McQuiggan, Katherine Huang, Tara Faulkner, and Julia Yao Cooper. Hult is a little gem and if b-school is in your future you should definitely check out their program.

I also spoke at Tim Butler’s “New Path” program at HBS on Friday — was thoroughly jazzed by the women I met there and think Tim’s CareerLeader model is amazing.

I am always energized when I get the opportunity to speak and am more convinced th…

85 Broads is hosting an all day conference on Saturday, April 24, 2010 in partnership with (and at) the NYU Stern School of Business.

We have an awesome line up of speakers including Bobby Kennedy, Susan Lyne (CEO of Gilt) Niko Canner (former co-founder of Katzenbach Partners and current senior partner of Booz & Co.) Nomi Ghez, former II ranked analyst and Goldman Sachs partner, and Aswath Damodaran, finance guru and teacher at NYU Stern.

Also speaking: Cindy Padnos, founder of Illuminate Ventures who has written a terrific report on women launching high growth businesses in the tec…

Today I am going to thank Courtney Smith Rae for introducing me to Meg Berte in 2003. We had coffee in Grand Central. Meg and I compared cancer war stories. Her story made mine sound like a bad hair day.

Six years ago, almost to the day, Meg wrote me this email:

After I “survived” I had three years of hell (and this was AFTER the treatment). My intestine was mangled, I lost 30 pounds and the doctors didn’t know how I might be able to keep food down — I couldn’t get surgery to repair my intestine b/c of all the chemo. Then, one after the other, both of my lungs collapsed when I was a…

In honor of my daughter’s 21st birthday, I am going to thank 5 great women every day until I reach 10,000. This will take a few years to do but what a great way to start the day! I want to thank women who are rocking the world for other women — women who have the guts, the passion, the drive, and the talent to blaze new trails for themselves and for other women to follow.

The first 5 women on my list are:

Meredith Hanson: Mer is my golden sunshine. She is a brilliant young artist and defines the word “trailblazer.”

Patty Tiebout: Patty celebrated her 82nd birthday by waterskiing…

Check out this article by Joseph Hooper at ELLE on September 14, 2009 (link at [elle.com]):

“I have this vivid memory of that Sunday,” Laurie Barnett, tells me over the disco music pumping into the midtown Manhattan restaurant where we meet, “when everyone figured out that Lehman was going bankrupt and Merrill was merging with Bank of America, and everything basically went to shit.” It’s hard to picture Laurie, 25, athletic and tomboyishly pretty, being a casualty of anything, but, as she’s eager to tell me, she was present at the …