Daily recaps, stories of impact and perspectives on mentoring
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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September 13, 2018
Carol Fitzsimons is chief executive of Young Enterprise Northern Ireland, an organization that helps over 100,000 young people across Northern Ireland each year explore their entrepreneurial potential and prepare…
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June 18, 2018
The Global Ambassadors Program to be held in Dublin, Ireland, October 8-12, 2018, will address the ongoing needs and challenges facing women leaders engaged in the private sector and…
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April 11, 2018
Anjali Besley and Iryna Rubis Iryna (right) is CEO of Ekonomika+, a business and sustainable services content provider in Eastern Europe. She worked with mentor Anjali Besley (left)…
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April 10, 2018
Stevie Howell, founder of Stevie Howell LLC, began the week as, what her mentor called “an accidental apparel designer.” By Friday, Stevie and her mentor Jessica Abrahams, chair of the…
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March 31, 2018
Claudia Castellanos Roques is the founder and managing director of Black Mamba Foods, a fair trade brand based in Swaziland that manufactures and distributes gourmet chili products. Her Global Ambassador…
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March 22, 2018
Habiba Ali is a mentee in the Global Ambassadors Program New York City event. She is CEO of Sosai Renewable Energies, a social enterprise offering efficient, reliable and sustainable products…
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March 20, 2018
Our first Global Ambassadors Program (GAP) in New York City is off to a great start as mentors and mentees finally met in person to begin a week of mentoring…
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March 15, 2018
Zoë Dean-Smith Hello 2018! We’re just days away from our first Global Ambassadors Program (GAP) of the year, to be held in New York City March 19-23, followed…
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January 24, 2018
Kelly Fair is founder and executive director of Polished Pebbled Girls Mentoring Program. She was paired with Eleanor ‘Tabi’ Haller-Jorden, president and CEO of The Paradigm Forum GmbH, a…
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December 4, 2017
The Global Ambassadors Program to be held in New York City, March 19-23, 2018, will address the ongoing needs and challenges facing women leaders engaged in the private sector and…
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