Business Mentoring Matters

Recently there was an article in The Associated Press indicating that President Obama invoked his grandmother, single mother and two young daughters in creating a White House panel to advise him on issues facing women and girls.  He signed an executive order creating a council designed to help Cabinet agencies and departments to collaborate on ways to make sure women were provided opportunities offered to men.  It said that he signed the order to honor all the women who came before him that had been denied promotions because of their gender.  He was quoted saying "Now, it's up to us to carry that hope, to ensure that our daughters and granddaughters have no limits on their greatness, no obstacles to their achievements, that they have opportunities that their mothers, their grandmother and great-grandmothers never dreamed of."   Obama named senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, herself a single mother, to head the group, which would include Cabinet secretaries and other administrations officials.  White House aide Tina Tchen would run its day-to-day operations.

Who is running your operations?  Have you recognized the business case for having women in critical positions without your organization?