The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won't Learn in Business School - Hardcover

Rezvani, Selena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313376662 ISBN 13: 9780313376665

Publisher: Praeger, 2009

Synopsis

A groundbreaking, empowering collection of advice―richly illustrated with the stories of women at top echelons of their fields―that advances the leadership outlook for Generation X and Y women like no book before it.

· Includes 30 interviews with highly accomplished business women

· Offers a foreword by Gail Evans, the highest-ranking woman executive ever at CNN

· Provides a far-reaching bibliography of significant materials combining works examining gender dynamics in addition to business classics

About this title

Book Description:

For a woman preparing for a business career it was the opportunity of a lifetime. Imagine being able to sit down with top women executives, to hear in their own words their most coveted advice and hardest won lessons. Selena Rezvani did just that, conducting over 30 interviews that pass along the wisdom of this generation's leading businesswomen to the next.

About the Author:

Selena Rezvani is a recognized consultant, speaker and author on women and leadership. A VP at Be Leaderly (beleaderly.com), Selena uses workplace culture assessments to help corporate clients be more inclusive and welcoming to women. Selena is also a noted researcher, having developed groundbreaking studies on insights related to women in the c-suite, millennials, managers, and negotiating habits.

Selena is the author of two leadership books targeted at professional women. Her latest book, Pushback: How Smart Women Ask--and Stand Up--for What They Want (Jossey-Bass, 2012), focuses on the unmatched power of negotiation skills in women's career advancement and was recognized with an Axiom Business Book Award in 2013. Her first book, The Next Generation of Women Leaders (Praeger, 2009), profiled 30 "c-level" women, each of whom provided tools and information for young women to shape their own careers. Selena has been featured in the LA Times, Oprah.com, Today.com, Glamour, and wrote an award-winning column on women for The Washington Post. Today she writes on women and work for Forbes.

Selena has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and an MSW from NYU. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband Geoff and her five year old boy/girl twins.

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0313376662
• ISBN 13: 9780313376665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200