Join the Women Presidents Organization in Vegas for the Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum May 10-12, 2023

It's not too late!  JOIN me along with 750 other women business owners from around the world who will be arriving in Las Vegas for the annual Women Presidents Organization Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum. This is the most amazing program of the year for WPO.

Our WPO CEO Camille Burns sums it up nicely in this LinkedIn post.

To learn more and to register, visit here.  And be sure to stop in at the Pre-Forum Workshop I'll [Laurel Delaney] be moderating on Intentional Growth Beyond Borders (May 10th at 9:30 AM local time).

See you there!  

Helping Kids Launch Big Ideas of Their Own

Jess Ekstrom, Founder of Headbands of Hope and Mic Drop Workshop, launched a multi-million dollar company out of her dorm room in college.  

In this interview with Jessica Abo, she shares how it all started and her advice for kids and teens who want to launch their own big idea.

Valarie King-Bailey, CEO, OnShore Technology Group Makes the Crain's Chicago List of Biggest Women-Owned Businesses

Our very own WPO Chicago member, Valarie King-Bailey, M.B.A., Chief Executive Officer, OnShore Technology Group, makes the Crain's Chicago Business List of Biggest Women-Owned Businesses.

Congrats to Valarie.  We are so proud of you.  This recognition supports all your hard work over the years and is very much deserved.

You can access the list if you are a subscriber to Crain's, here.

Advice For a Young Lady Wanting to Become President (of the United States)

What will it take for a woman to obtain the highest office in the land?  in this case we are talking about becoming President of the United States and not President of your own business although I must say that President of your own business is a pretty tall order, too.  We know this to be true at the Women Presidents Organization.  If you want to be a Chief, you join WPO, it's that simple provided you run a multimillion dollar business.  Anything else that you join is subterfuge for the real thing.

But back to President of the United States.  While pundits debate Nikki Haley's chances, historian Alexis Coe looks back at a speech former President Gerald Ford gave to a group of children and wonders if he—and whole bunch of film and TV writers—was right all along.

In 1989 a bespectacled girl with a yellow ribbon in her hair asked Gerald Ford if he had any advice for a “young lady wanting to become president of the United States.” Ford didn’t recommend the best schools or list acts of service. He didn’t even answer her question, instead pivoting to a morbid prediction.

Read on to see what it was.