Outstanding in Their Field: How Women Corporate Directors Succeed
• Presents the six most prominent paths into the boardroom—nonprofit, academic, government, entrepreneurship, investment, and corporate—profiling women directors who followed each of the six paths• Identifies steps women can take that will make them qualified and competent to serve at the very top• Allows women to learn from the leaders what it takes to get nominated to a corporate board• Documents positive indicators showing that business women are being invited into the boardroom not because it's the right thing to do, but because they offer the skills, experience, and perspective contemporary boards value• 15 profiles of prominent businesswoman personalize the attributes it takes to succeed as a corporate director• 9 illustrations"This volume outlines the steps women can take to become qualified and competent directors on for-profit or corporate boards. Ghaffari describes the six most prominent paths to success and women directors who followed them through nonprofit, academic, government, corporate, investment, and entrepreneurship fields. Fifteen women from CaliforniaFortune 1000 firms (as of 2006-2007) are profiled. The profiles include discussion about their decisions, lessons learned, and various positions. Ghaffari is associated with a technology advisory firm. Her Surveys of Women on Boards of Directors at California-Based Fortune 1000 Firms provided the biographical and research foundation for the volume."-Reference & Research Book News"Each chapter closes with one woman's advice, providing encouragement and perspective from over three decades of practical experience with public company boards."-Washington State Bar Association"Elizabeth has given us a roadmap to the Boardroom."-Women Executive Leadership