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Stop the Sabotage - Why Women Avoid Success

 Mary Lee Gannon, CAE
Your Life/Career/Business Reinvention Strategist
 
  
Mary Lee Gannon is president of  StartingOverNow.com
 - a coaching and consulting firm that helps people and organizations reinvent to enjoy the freedom that comes from success. With more than 17 years of experience as a CEO of organizations with up to $26 million in assets, Mary Lee helps leaders develop business strategy and fulfilled employees who know how to make work fun and productive. 
  
She is a graduate of Duquesne University's Professional Coaching Program, an alumnus of the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership Conference and a Certified Association Executive. 
 
Mary Lee's personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home mother with four children under seven-years-old who endured a divorce that took she and the children from the country club life to public assistance from where she earned success to support her family.   
  
Are you:
* An entrepreneur in a flat business
* Chilled from divorce
* Idle in your career
* Burdened by a job loss
* Void of life purpose
* Missing loving relationships
* Afraid that "empty nest" means "empty future"
* In need of executive presence
* Unable to "just move on"

Clients, across the US, are working hard but not smart because there is a lack of clarity, vision, goals, optimized work environment, accountability or good work/life balance in place to produce exceptional results. So fear, bureaucracy, personal agendas and cynicism have grabbed hold when what they want is rekindled passion to create the best product or service in their industry, be the provider of choice and be fulfilled by a lifestyle friendly business.
  
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Mary Lee Ganon is Recognized 

Michelle Wright of WTAE-TV, Mary Lee Gannon and Beth Caldwell of PPW - Women of Integrity Award 

Mary Lee Gannon is awarded the 2012
"Woman of Integrity" award by Pittsburgh
Professional Women on December 1st at Le Mont.  Awardees are women of distinction who have balanced career and civic responsibility, who share their success by mentoring others and
supporting their communities.  Pictured
here with Michelle Wright of WTAE-TV
and Beth Caldwell of PPW.

The Book

"STARTING OVER"

This was Mary Lee's first book and illustrates her personal turnaround as a stay-at-home mother, with four children under seven-years-old, who endured a divorce that took she and the children f rom the country club life to public assistance. From there, within a short time, she worked to the level of CEO, directing three hospital foundations over the last 17 years each with assets of up to $26 million.  

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We all know women who seem to have it all together. They are smart, sophisticated, and talented yet they don't feel they have achieved a level of professional success. At times this may even be you! Why is this?    

 

Consider these statistics:

 

* The National Women's Business Council 2012 Annual Report shows that women own 30% of all businesses but capture only 11% of all receipts - most likely because they are in smaller businesses whereby they can juggle work/life balance. The US Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported in 2011 that women working full time in wage and salary jobs earned on average $684 a week - 82% of men's $832 a week median weekly earnings.

  

* Women are marrying later, less often, having fewer children and starting families later, the effect of an economic downturn and indicating that juggling work and family is a challenge. In 2008, college educated women typically married at age 30, compared to age 26 for women without a high school diploma. The percentage of adults who are married declined between 1970 and 2009, from 72 percent to 62 percent for women. About 18 percent of women age 40-44 have never had a child, almost double that in 1976 (10 percent.) The average age at which women first gave birth in 2007 was 25 compared to 21 in 1970. Mothers age 40-44 had given birth to 3.4 children on average in 1976, compared to only 2.3 in 2008.

  

* The percentage of working mothers with a college degree who clock 50 hours a week of work during the key years of career advancement: ages 25 to 44 is only 13.9 percent according to data from the US Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey. This long-hours issue for women can relate to why the percentage of women in top jobs has stalled at about 14 percent. It is difficult for women to move into the corner office when the fast track to top jobs requires a time commitment that is not friendly to family obligation.

  

* A top-tier degree does not ensure a top-tier position because some women are choosing to opt out of the race to the top. A 2013 study by Joni Hersch of Vanderbilt Law School found that the mothers who are graduates of elite universities are less - not more - likely to be working full time than mothers with less prestigious degrees. Only 45.3 percent of mothers who graduated from top-tier institutions - and only 34.8 percent of MBAs - have full-time jobs. Most are not full time homemakers but have part-time jobs or community service roles in addition to parenting.

 

This could mean that when women say they want flexibility in the work place it does not necessarily mean "job-share" or "part-time." Working mothers want to be able to work anytime, anywhere. They want to see their children before they go to bed. And if they can't, they are more likely to sacrifice the corner office to host a play group than a man.

 

Most high-level executive positions require a devotion that implies that work need be your life focus. This can leave women who want or have a family deciding early on to trade the goal for a C-suite position for flexibility.

 

I realize the new mantra is to "Lean In" to position yourself for the top job. But statistics imply that the tradeoff might not be worth it based on your other priorities. Weigh your options against your values. What means most to you and how will you position yourself to be fulfilled based on what truly matters. If you sacrifice something make sure it is not at the top of your values list. Frustration and disappointment will surely follow.

 

 

  

Hear Mary Lee speak at the:

Pittsburgh Entrepreneur Conference and Trade Show

Wednesday April 2, 2014

9:30 AM to 3:30 PM EDT

Clarion Hotel and Conference Center - Foster Plaza in Greentree

401 Holiday Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15220

$42 - by April 1. Save $8 off the "at the door" price. 

$50 - after 9pm on April 1, 2014

  
  
Watch Mary Lee's expert panel video: Life/Career Reinvention Coach Mary Lee Gannon appears on a panel of top coaches at Rivers Casino for Pittsburgh Professional Women here showing what you do when you feel overwhelmed and fear failure.
  
Mary Lee Gannon, CAE is an award winning Life/Career/Business Reinvention Strategist and president of StartingOverNow.com - a personal and executive coaching firm that helps reinvent to enjoy the freedom that comes from success. She is the popular author of two books, her latest Reinvent You - From welfare to CEO was just released. With more than 17 years of experience as a CEO of organizations with up to $26 million in assets, Mary Lee helps leaders develop personal and executive strategy. She is a graduate of Duquesne University's Professional Coaching Program, a Certified Association Executive and an alumnus of the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership Conference. She is the recipient of the Woman of Integrity Award by Pittsburgh Professional Women and the Leading Lady Distinction by Oakland Catholic. She's been featured in Money Magazine, NPR, Yahoo.com, U.S. News and World Report, msn.com, Forbes.com, CareerBuilder.com. Her personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home mother with four children under seven-years-old who endured a divorce that took her and her children from the country club life to public assistance from where she reinvented her life to support her family. Her column appears in the Pittsburgh Business Times and she presents regularly to national audiences on leadership, entrepreneurship, executive presence, coaching versus managing, divorce and career turnaround. Read testimonials from her clients. Her new book and her first book Starting Over - 25 Rules for When You've Bottomed Out are available in bookstores, from online booksellers or on her web site at www.StartingOverNow.com  
  
         
  
Mary Lee is a featured executive coach in MONEY MAGAZINE. 
  
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