Belle Inspiration: First Lady Michelle Obama

All hail the superwomen of our generation!

  

Michelle Obama epitomises the ultimate achiever in my eyes...

Michelle Obama’s CV is impressive: she was Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies - encouraging young people to work on social issues - she was also the former Vice President for Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. The media are also taking a shine to her. She was listed as one of the World’s Most Inspiring Women by Essence magazine as well as appearing in Vanity Fair’s 10 Of The World’s Best Dressed People.

Dr Audrey Nelson: Code Switching

In a women's leadership event co-sponsored by the Lokey Graduate School of Business and the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco, Audrey Nelson discusses her coauthored book, Code Switching: How to Talk So Men Will Listen.

Dr. Nelson defines code switching as the ability to use your knowledge of two or more cultures or languages and switch between them, depending on the situation, to communicate. "Rather than telling women to be more like men - a recipe for failure - Code Switching offers a way of reaching across the aisle to open the lines of communication," says Dr. Nelson.

"It helps both women and men speak in common terms so work gets done, conflict gets resolved, and mutual understanding and respect prevail...in the workplace and beyond."




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