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 – It’s Time for Women to Step Up and Change the World

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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31 March 2011

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Welcome to the herBusiness program, where we interview inspiring businesswomen and entrepreneurs.

In this episode, we interview Linda Tarr-Whelan, author of Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World. Linda served as Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women and has been named as one of the 50 most powerful women in Washington.

 

Listen to this herBusiness interview with Linda Tarr-Whelan to learn:

  • The myths about why more women aren’t in leadership positions
  • The 30% solution
  • Why it is important that the perception of women as being indecisive changes
  • The one area of leadership women trail behind men in
  • How we can support other women to step up to the challenge and become leaders
  • How businesses can benefit from harnessing an under-utilised and powerful resource: women

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About the host

Suzi Dafnis

Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and men!) in our community and I love finding the best education, mentors, and resources from around the globe, to help them get the skills, knowledge, and support they need to succeed. It’s been my privilege to lead HerBusiness (formerly The Australian Businesswomen’s Network) for the past 23 years (two+ decades – WOW!) because, whilst I’ve enjoyed success in business, I’ve also experienced the highs and the lows – sometimes you can feel on top of the world and in control and other times you can feel isolated, exhausted and stuck. What has made the biggest difference for me has always been having great people around me and having a lifelong commitment to learning. That’s why I am so passionate about the work we do here at HerBusiness – providing a Connection Network for women in business to get the mentors, contacts, referrals, knowledge, and skills they need to grow their confidence, make more money, build their businesses, expand their network and create the lives they love. My entrepreneurial journey started in the spare room of my Sydney apartment in 1994 when my business partner and I started a boutique events company that represented speakers and authors from the USA, here in Australia. Over the years I’ve grown multiple multi-million dollar businesses in the events, publishing and education niches – with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Not everything has worked and there has been a degree of trial and error, and a lot of bumps in the road. But I have always had a strong commitment to always surrounding myself with great mentors and like-minded peers – a Connection Network that I can depend on and who can depend on me to be there for them too. I truly do what I love, every day.  

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Linda Tarr-Whelan

Linda Tarr-Whelan

Linda Tarr-Whelan is a Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at Demos, a US national progressive think tank.  She is the author of the award-winning book, Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping up to Leadership and Changing the World (Berrett-Koehler, 2009 and 2011). She is also Chair of the National Women’s Advisory Council for Pax World Resources. Linda served as Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in the Clinton Administration, Deputy Assistant to President Jimmy Carter for Women’s Concerns in the White House and a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Trade Policy and Negotiations. Named as one of the 50 most powerful women in Washington by Ladies Home Journal, her career has included government, unions and NGO’s including as President/CEO of the Center for Policy Alternatives, and as Managing Partner of Tarr-Whelan & Associates, Inc, an international management consultancy. She appears frequently nationally and internationally as a speaker, writer, media commentator and blogger (www.lindatarrwhelan.com) on Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Bloomberg News, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, and Newsday. She began her career as a nurse and holds a BSN from Johns Hopkins, MS from the University of Maryland and honorary PhD’s from Chatham University and Plymouth State University.  She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Linda and Keith Tarr-Whelan live on St. Helena Island, SC and Burlington, VT. They have two adult children and four grandchildren.  

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