Daily recaps, stories of impact and perspectives on mentoring
January 29, 2020
Call for applications! Are you our next Global Ambassadors Program mentee? We’re headed to New York City, May 4-8, 2020, and will focus on women business owners or social enterprise…
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January 6, 2020
Katharina Paoli and Yvonne Ike “It is so rewarding and valuable to have someone with a different perspective to bounce ideas off,” said Katharina, founder of Nudgd, a…
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November 14, 2019
Could a global investment banking executive and a cookie shop owner work well together? It was a risk worth taking as Saba Nazar of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and…
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November 13, 2019
Mentee Christina Limbird is an educational psychologist and the co-founder of Linden Global Learning Support, an international student support agency based in Berlin. On the side, she runs Girls Gearing…
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November 12, 2019
On y va! The 20th Global Ambassadors Program has begun in Paris. But first — art! Mentors and mentees arrived from all over Europe and the U.S., quickly made introductions and…
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November 5, 2019
The Global Ambassadors Program was life-changing. For me, personally, it came at the most amazing inflection point in 2016. I had just left POLITICO after a decade and was thinking…
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Zoë Dean-Smith, Vice President, Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship We’re a week away from our 20th Global Ambassadors Program – our fifth time in Europe with our partner Bank of…
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May 13, 2019
The Global Ambassadors Program will be held in Paris, France, November 11-15, 2019, to address the ongoing needs and challenges facing women leaders engaged in the private sector and social enterprise throughout Europe.
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April 5, 2019
Auralís Herrero-Lugo and Carmen Cedré Auralís Herrero-Lugo just may be the visionary designer needed to put Puerto Rico back on the fashion world map. Paired with…
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March 21, 2019
Mentee Auralís Herrero-Lugo created Retazo, a Puerto Rico-based circular fashion platform that integrates circular manufacturing, modular training, capacity building and sales for long-term economic development on the island. A big…
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March 19, 2019
“I was raised by wolves,” says Mariangie Rosas. “My mother passed when I was young so I grew up with my father and three older brothers.” After high school, like many…
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March 18, 2019
The Global Ambassadors Program in Puerto Rico is off and running here in San Juan, as our 10 mentors and 10 mentees are getting acquainted and settled in for five…
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Did you feel the earth shift a little last week? Two by two, mentors and mentees took to the streets in 62 countries, walking together as part of the 174…
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December 17, 2018
The Global Ambassadors Program in Puerto Rico, March 18-22, 2019, addresses the ongoing needs and challenges facing women leaders in Puerto Rico who are engaged in business, social enterprise and non-profit activities focused on building…
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November 9, 2018
Kathy O’Hearn It was day three at the Global Ambassadors Program (GAP) in Dublin when I heard my favorite new phrase: LONG TAIL. Long tail is a theory that our…
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November 6, 2018
How long should a successful entrepreneur trust her gut? It’s a question I’ve been considering since returning from an incredible week in Dublin with Vital Voices. I was honored to…
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October 25, 2018
Ntombenhle Khathwane and Morra Aarons-Mele When Ntombenhle Khathwane started AfroBotanics seven years ago in South Africa, she faced little competition. The natural hair and…
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October 12, 2018
Ntombenhle Khathwane and her mentor Morra Aarons-Mele, did not waste a moment of the GAP Dublin week. As CEO and founder of AfroBotanics, Ntombenhle transforms culture through her natural…
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October 11, 2018
Shilpi Singh, co-founder of Unhotel, is an experiential travel innovator in India. She was paired with Global Ambassador Norah Casey, a business and media icon in Ireland committed to women’s…
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September 24, 2018
“Leadership means that when you take a step forward, you turn round and pull somebody else into that space.” – Inez McCormack I’m just back from an energizing United Nations…
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