Inc. is an American business magazine founded in 1979 and based in New York City. The magazine publishes six issues per year, along with surrounding online and social media content. The magazine also produces several live and virtual events yearly.
Sheila Crump Johnson is an American businesswoman, co-founder of BET, CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts, and the first billionaire African-American woman.
The White House Project was an American non-profit organization, which worked to increase female representation in American institutions, businesses, and government. Its main programs focused on female leadership and campaign training and the portrayal of female leadership in the media.
Janice Bryant Howroyd is an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and author. She is founder and chief executive officer of The ActOne Group, the largest privately held, minority-woman-owned personnel company founded in the U.S. Howroyd is the first African-American woman to build and own a billion dollar company.
The phrase women in business refers to women who hold positions, particularly leadership in the fields of commerce, business, and entrepreneurship. It advocates for their increased participation in business.
Marianne Schnall is an American writer, interviewer, and feminist. Her interviews with Madeleine Albright, Dr. Jane Goodall, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Eve Ensler and others have been published by several magazines and websites, and she has published four books about feminism.
Nina Adil Godiwalla is an American author and businesswoman. She is CEO of MindWorks Leadership and the author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street.
Neale Sheila Godfrey is an American author. Her books deal with money, life skills, and value issues. One of them, Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children, was a New York Times #1 Best Seller. She is currently Executive in Residence at the Columbia Graduate School of Business and is a former contributor at Forbes.com.
Angela Benton is an American businesswoman. Benton founded NewME (acquired), the first startup accelerator for minorities globally in 2011. She is a pioneer of diversity and one of the most important African-Americans in the technology industry. She has helped minority-led tech companies raise over $47 million in venture capital funding.
Pegine Echevarria is an American entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, life coach, and CEO of the Jacksonville-based Team Pegine, Inc.
Lisa M. Dietlin is speaker and writer on the subject of philanthropy. She is the author of four books about the subject, and she is the President and CEO of the philanthropic consulting company The Institute of Transformational Philanthropy.
Saundarya Rajesh is an Indian social entrepreneur who is the founder and president of Avtar Group. She is known for introducing the concept of Second Career opportunities for women in corporate India. She runs an initiative, Project Puthri to empower underprivileged girls with employment. She was awarded the ‘100 Women Achievers of India’ in 2016 by the Minister of Women and Child Development for her work. She received the Women Transforming India Award from the NITI Aayog and the United Nations in 2016. Her debut book, The 99 Day Diversity Challenge: Creating an Inclusive Workplace (2018), was published by SAGE Publishing.
Diversity Woman magazine, founded in 2007, is an American business magazine that features original articles about entrepreneurship, career development, technology, finance, health, and diversity issues as they relate to women in the business world, spotlighting success stories of business women of all races. With a current circulation of approximately 100,000, the motto of DW is “Leadership empowerment for women who mean business.”
Shawne Duperon is an American scholar, good gossip researcher, media expert, public speaker and a TV producer. She has won 6 Emmy Awards for her notable work which has also been featured in major media. She is best known for founding The Project Forgive Foundation, a non-profit leadership foundation nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2016. The foundation is supported by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Project Forgive is an American 501c3 non-partisan, non-religious leadership foundation which educates university students in the topics of business that include diversity, integrity, collaboration, compassion and forgiveness in the workplace.
Dr Heather Patricia Melville is a British banker, the Senior Managing Director of Teneo and Chancellor of the University of York, UK.
Catherine Louise Fox is an Australian freelance journalist, author, feminist and public speaker.
Nathalie Beatrice Chinje is an entrepreneur and international consultant. She is the founder and CEO of the company Upbeat Marketing, and has been actively working to forward private sector development, foreign direct investment, and female entrepreneurship on the African continent for over 20 years. Dr. Nath is a member of the Advocacy and Communications Committee of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) Board, an Expert for the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and consults for the African Development Bank (AFDB). Her vision is to transform Africa’s socio-economic landscape at a global level through the promotion and championing of international trade, investment, and corporate social responsibility in Africa, and the empowerment of small and women-owned businesses.
Amina Gerba is a Cameroonian-Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Afrique Expansion, Afrique Expansion Forum, and Afrique Expansion magazine. She also founded the beauty care brands Kariliss and Kariderm–the latter being the world's first shea butter product to earn organic certification. In 2014, she was a recipient of the National Order of Quebec. She is a director for the Canadian Council on Africa, African Business Roundtable, and Fonds Afro-Entrepreneurs, and is the president of the board of directors for Entreprendre Ici. In 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominated her to the Canadian Senate, as a Senator for Quebec.
Lisa S. Jones is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur, best known for being the founder of Atlanta-based video email company EyeMail Inc. As both a black and woman-owned business, EyeMail Inc. is classified as a Minority Women Business Enterprise (MWBE). Her company began as a start-up, eventually growing exponentially through partnerships with Microsoft, Delta Air Lines, Time Warner, Porsche North America, the Atlanta Tech Village, PepsiCo and, most notably, The Coca-Cola Company, through which EyeMail Inc. got selected by Microsoft as a premier MWBE supplier in digital marketing. Prior to dedicating herself to entrepreneurship, Jones worked in supplier diversity for telecommunications provider AT&T, and continues to develop a career as a thought leader and public speaker in the matter.
