Susan's Blog

Sue Cischke has retired from her career at Ford Motor and she'll be leaving a gaping hole in the ranks of women executives at the Detroit automakers.

Please join me on Friday, February 10, 2012 for Big Blend Radio's SUCCESS EXPRESS show from 12pm to 1:30pm (MT). I'll be discussing the following: Women Turning Passion Into Action in Business/Career!

This year, there was an increase of women at Davos. Can you believe that we had an increase from 16% to 17%? I suppose a 1% increase is better than 0% (and certainly better than a decrease).

Today, energy is boundless. However, I'm still amazed to see the lack of female speakers at the numerous international, national and local technical conferences that go on every year!

I read this article on WSJ.com and it's interesting to read about three CFOs as candidates for three high profile CEO positions, including Cathie Lesjak, the CFO at H-P (she's listed as "The Reticent").

Congratulations to Melissa Korn for writing such a great article on WSJ.com. The article I'm referring to is "Pressing for Women's Gains," which includes responses from Ellis Sangster, the assistant dean and director of the M.B.A. Program at the University of Teas' McCombs School of Business.

The other day, I was talking to my cousin and she mentioned that she hadn't seen women in any of the news articles talking about the most important people of 2011. Then, I read an article, "21 Leader 2012 - Seven Who Catalyze Culture," on Womens eNews, which was all about outstanding women!

I got excited when I read this article, "12 tech leaders' resolutions for 2012," on gigaom.com about Padmasree Warrior, CTO of CISCO. She is one of 12 people featured in this article. Out of these 12 people, there are only two women, Padmasree and Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder and CEO of PIXEL QI.

An article on CNN caught my eye when I saw the following headline: Medal for 3 female laureates of mettle.

This article on Daily Democrat is a great example of how equality for women can be handled in some way by each state in the US