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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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What Can Men Do to Support Women in Leadership Positions?

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They can also help to mentor and advise women just as they would do for male leaders. Harj Taggar, chairman and co-founder, Triplebyte This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Stephanie Cartin, co-founder, Socialfly ; co-host, the Entreprenista podcast 4.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna. Cornish is the co-author of It’s Work!

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” The 2019 “ State of Women-Owned Businesses Report ” from American Express finds women-owned businesses “now represent 42% of all businesses—nearly 13 million—employing 9.4 trillion.”

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How Can Office Design Support Multigenerational Collaboration?

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This article was written by Megan Skaalen and Emily Morris of SmithGroup for Work Design Magazine. ​​ Four to five short years ago, the first wave of Generation Z knew what their futures would hold. So, we invited an enthusiastic, circa-2019-graduate interior designer and Gen Z colleague to join the conversation.

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The Quest for My Best Sales Month Ever

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I call Pat, a salesman friend who has been an invaluable mentor to me. The answer: A story for a baseball season preview magazine for which I have written occasionally. The target client is Southwest Airlines’ employee magazine. The only way to $14,772.01 I open my story ideas list and brainstorm. What could I write then?

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The BossBabe Community of More Than 4 Million Is Strengthened by the Bond Its Founders Share

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The idea to create an online space for ambitious women evolved into a concrete plan, and by 2019, the business partners launched BossBabe. During the next 18 months, Canty sought out mentors with successful online businesses. This article originally appeared in the November/December 2021 Issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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