The Courage To Advance: Real life resilience from the world’s most successful women in business

Product Description
A powerful collection of 36 stories about how the world's most successful women have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions. This is a book written for every current and aspiring leader,
revealing the things that leaders rarely talk about: the behind the scenes struggles.\nThe women in these stories are powerful,
internationally diverse, and have impressive leadership accomplishments. They were brought together through one unifying experience: they have all completed the Harvard Business School Women on Boards
Program
, a course that has turned into a movement. Today there are over 190 members of the WomenExecs on Boards network,
from 23 countries. This is the network where organizations go to find educated,
prepared,
qualified, and diverse women for corporate board seats.\nAfter reading this book you will be inspired to lead and make a difference for others whether it's running a company or leading a division,
team,
project,
community event or your family and home. You will discover that you already have all you need to succeed when it gets hard,
to never give up,
and how to keep going through life's difficult and sometimes terrible challenges. These women want you to know that you are not alone,
and that you can lean on the strength of those who have gone before you,
keep leading and keep getting back up again and again.
Review
"As I read the many stories so artfully captured in the
Courage to Advance, I could not help but think of my own mothers struggle to succeed as Physician in a Navy town in the late 1960s. Like so many of the leaders profiled in this book, she persevered through countless challenges and setbacks and paved the way for future generations of leaders in the process. One cannot help but be inspired by the courage, humility, and tenacity of the special Women profiled in these stories." ―
Christian Brickman, CEO, Sally Beauty Holdings, SBH (NYSE:SBH)\n“Women’s empowerment is the single biggest opportunity of the 21st century. Read this book and be inspired by the courageous stories of those who are re-writing the rules of leadership.”―
Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever plc UL (NYSE: UL), Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE, a social venture accelerating business leadership to achieve the Global Goals\n"It's often through hearing the stories of others that we come to the best moments of clarity in our own. Women leaders are courageous, resilient, fully capable of making sense and success of the world around them. We adapt, and we also lead change. All, with grace, humility, and vulnerability. In this book are thirty-six stories of proof."―
Coco Brown, Founder & CEO, Athena Alliance, Inc., a digital platform for community, learning and access to opportunity for the top women in business\n"
Courage to Advance is an easy read because it keeps you engaged through the very personal and different stories which are short but powerful. It will inspire you to never give up and to achieve your wildest dreams despite the many obstacles along the way. You will take ownership and achieve more than you could have ever imagined!"―
Dimitri Panayotopoulos, Board Director and former vice chairman of The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG)\n"Finally! A book so validating, so encouraging, that it feels as though I sat through years of life, career, and business lessons from successful mentors willing to bare it all to pave a path just for me. If you are ready for your head to be full of ideas, your heart running over, and your insides raring to go -
The Courage to Advance is for you!"―
Nanette Harrell, Independent Fractional Chief Information Officer & former Transportation Executive, at Faneuil, Inc., Savi Tech & GE (NYSE: GE)\n“It’s through the power of storytelling that we are motivated and inspired. Here are the stories of some of our top women leaders. The stories contain big lessons in bite-size pieces. Many have a 'hard knocks' qu