2011 Stevie® Awards for Women in Business

Hi Everyone, The eighth annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business are now open! If you are a female entrepreneur, executive or employee - you are eligible to apply - and I hope you do.

The Stevie® Awards for Women in Business feature over 50 categories - including Best Entrepreneur, Best Young Entrepreneur, Best Executive, Mentor or Coach of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, Employee of the Year, Best Overall Company of the Year, and Most Innovative Company of the Year, among others. The awards are produced by the creators of the prestigious International Business Awards and the Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service.

The discounted early-bird entry deadline is 27 July 2011. For more information, please click here. Thanks and good luck! Andrea.

(Expat) Women Entrepreneurs: Want To Be In Natalie MacNeil's Upcoming Book?

Hi Everyone, If you are an (expat) women entrepreneur, you may like to nominate yourself to be featured in Natalie MacNeil's upcoming book for women entrepreneurs here.

Natalie wrote to me this week and invited me, and everyone in our Expat Women network, to submit our 250-word business stories. She'd love to feature 100 women - so click and submit before May 1st - and you might be one of them. Go for it! Andrea

Natalie MacNeil is an award-winning entrepreneur, influential blogger, and thought leader in the sphere of business and personal branding for women. She is best known as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the blog, She Takes On The World, one of the top blogs for career-minded women and women entrepreneurs and recognized as one of Forbes’ Ten Best Career Sites for Women and ForbesWoman’s Top 100 Websites for Women.

Cartier Women's Initiative Awards

Hi Everyone, Whilst it might be a bit late for you to submit a comprehensive entry for this year's competition, here is a wonderful competition you might like to diarize for next year. It is the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards and 2011 entries are due March 15.

Here are some criteria details:

"The project to be considered for the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards must be an original for-profit business creation in the initial phase (1-3 years old) led by a woman.

• The “for-profit” requirement: the business submitted for the Award must be designed to generate revenues. We do not accept non-profit project proposals.
• The “originality” requirement: we want your project to be a new concept, conceived and imagined by the founder and her team and not a copy or subsidiary of an existing business.
• The “initial phase” requirement: the project you submit should be in the first stages of its development with one year of operations and sales to account for but no older than 3-4 years. The ‘age’ of the company will not be measured solely on the basis of the date of incorporation. The development and size of the company will also be taken into account.
• The main leadership position must be filled by a woman. A good command of English is required (both verbal and written) to take full advantage of the benefits the Award has to offer.
• All entrants must be aged 18 or the age of legal majority in their respective countries or states of citizenship, whichever is older, on the day of the application deadline of March 15, 2011."

Here are the details about how to apply.

Here you can read about the 2010 Laureates.  The awards ceremony for 2011 will be held in France in October. I look forward to reading about this year's winners! Andrea