1/6/2024 0 Comments Penguin random house biz![]() “Women need to stand by their success and let people around them recognise it,” she states. Women seldom do – at least not to build their personal brands. “It’s why we hear about hugely successful businessmen and male entrepreneurs far more than their female counterparts. Mon- Fri 8:30am - 5:30pm (EST) Customer Service:. We are scared of being labelled as proud or boastful people. Contact our Customer Service representatives for inquiries regarding product availability, ordering information, status of shipment, billing, defective merchandise, or returns. After barely two weeks on the market, the service is getting rave reviews from both media and technology sites. Women who strive and succeed are often shy about sharing their accomplishments. Random House joined the ‘widget wars’ March 1 with the introduction of its Insight Service, a set of programming tools that allow Internet applications to view and search digitized book content. “We prefer to do things under the radar, and we don’t celebrate our successes. Sharman adds that women in general struggle to ‘toot our own horns.’ “I’ve seen the entire dynamic of a male-dominant management team change for the better, through the women finding their voices, standing their ground and creating a collaborative environment, for everyone.” Toot our own horns ![]() Most importantly, however, she says, women need to support each other. “By doing this, we help bring about change in the workplace.” She says women should also call out inappropriate behaviour or comments too. I find that as women, we tend to hold back in case we’re not adding value, or because we believe our idea may not be the best or our opinion may not be needed – and it’s time we stopped.” “Men tend to do this far more easily without fear of whether they’re actually adding value or not. Her advice is to always speak your mind and stand your ground. “I’ve seen and been on the receiving end of some pretty bad behaviour, but I believe that for the most part, it stems from ignorance more than malice and is something that we can change as the world shifts to a place of equal standing and mutual respect,” she states. Kark worked in marketing across the globe, in industries that are male-dominant for most of her career, before returning to South Africa. Leandre Kark, head of brand, Virgin Active She made it her single-minded mission to learn more about those industries than any of the men she dealt with collectively to end gender stereotypes and to prove that women deserve a place at the boardroom table. “There was not one female in any of those boardrooms for over seven years.” She cut her teeth with large corporate clients in industrial finance and the tyre industry. The corporate space is largely dominated by men, and so we have the added challenge of gender bias when we should be taken seriously in strategy and business development,” she adds. The title of MD or creative director is still only held by a handful of women in this country,” she says. “And there are still very few female executives in this industry. While it says like a fairy tale, she says she has been on her own personal journey in this sector for almost 20 years. She ended up becoming MD of that PR company, Ebony & Ivory, and in 2015, she launched Faith & Fear. “At that point, I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I was all grown up, but I decided that the agency was a good place to start finding out,” she explains. ![]() Author Day with Mrs.“In 2005 I was lucky enough to make it into the top three of South Africa’s The Apprentice with Tokyo Sexwale,” she explains.Īfter the show finished she was headhunted to run an agency in Parktown North. ![]() She has many more books both published and in the pipeline including a series of chapter books called Love Puppies (forthcoming, Scholastic). JaNay is also the author of the popular picture book series Where in the Garden (Peachtree Publishing), four Chicken Soup for the Soul Babies/Kids books, Crayola’s Follow That Line! Magic at Your Fingertips (Kids Can Press, 2022), and the New York Times Bestselling book Why Not You? (Penguin/Random House) which she collaborated with Ciara and Russel Wilson. JaNay also has several poems published in Highlights for Kids, Highlights High Five, the poetry anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (Lerner/Millbrook, 2019) and the forthcoming anthology No World Too Big (Charlesbridge, 2023). Her first children’s book Imani’s Moon won the NAESP Children’s Book of the Year Award and was featured on Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show and Storytime with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and her second book Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story! received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and won the CELI Read Aloud Book Award. JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD, is an award-winning children’s author, poet, educator, and scholar. ![]()
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