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Allison Byers is a serial entrepreneur. She’s the founder and CEO of Scroobious, a platform that helps create more investable founders (especially among traditionally marginalized groups) and helps investors discover them. (She’s also an Innovation Women speaker.)

Abysmal numbers. Her tweet, which had a very specific structure, was copied and shared on LinkedIn by a male founder (see the comparison on LinkedIn) without acknowledgement, attribution, or even a simple tip-of-the-hat.

This kind of situation forces women to make a choice. Do we speak out? Let it go? With the first option, we can be seen as complainers. With the second? Doormats…and we open the door for further abuse. As Byers says, “Small things add up and turn into big things. If we don't call out the small instances of bad business ethics, they will turn into big ones.”

Bobbie and the Innovation Women team

Join us today (and every Friday) our Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us lately, we needed a bit more time.

We do as many introductions as we can and then jump into discussion at 9:00 am. Bring your questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers always welcome too!

Too early for you? Doesn't work with your schedule? Join us February 3 for First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific. It's the first Friday of every month.

Accelerate your career, and your success, through authentic, yet carefully curated Personal Branding and strategic networking and community building. Victoria will share personal anecdotes and provide actionable steps on how to craft a brand, develop and maintain a network, and leverage that network for true success. Register here!

Responses from another Innovation Women "instant" poll. Last week we asked and you answered. Hundreds of our readers voted on the words they use to identify their favorite speakers.

"Authentic" (35%) won by a mile, more than double the second place "Interactive" (17%), "Worry-free" (9%) came in third, followed closely by "Relevant" (8%). "Passionate", "Self-Aware" and "Confident" were clustered (7% each). "Educational" and "Exciting" tied for last place with only 5% of the vote.

Lioness for the Female Entrepreneur is our digital magazine for women who are starting (or thinking about starting) companies. Get the latest news, tools and resources to launch and scale startups. This week you can read great articles like:

Even if your business is strong, your customers are getting nervous. Economic uncertainty, massive layoffs in the tech sector and energy prices that remain high have buyers bracing for a recession. In this inaugural session from Lioness Magazine, we'll discuss the five actions you should take now to ready your business to survive the ups and downs that are to come. Register here!

Networking for Career Success - Diane Darling

“It’s not what you know, but who you know”—if this saying is true, how can we forge these kinds of connections? Networking! Diane Darling, Professional Networking Strategist, McGraw-Hill Author and LinkedIn Aficionado has a guide centering all around creating business relationships. Open up a copy of “Networking for Career Success: 24 Lessons for Getting to Know the Right People” to learn all of the strategies you need. Read the feature on Lioness!

Become a Speaker - get opportunities like these, a profile on our site and more for only $120/year!

The Empowered Women Conference aims at Empowering Women in Rockford by bringing in speakers that feature a diverse group of women with a diverse set of skills so that we can learn from and grow with them. The Empowered Women Conference will focus on 2 tracks – Entrepreneurship/Business and Personal Development. More information here.

Also, check out more events like these:

SoGal Foundation has teamed up with Winky Lux, bluemercury, twelveNYC, Twilio, Walmart.org’s Center for Racial Equity and other sponsors to make a small step towards progress by providing several $10K and $5K cash grants to Black women or nonbinary entrepreneurs. More information here.

Technovation Girls mentors guide the next generation of global problem-solvers. As a mentor you will support one or more teams as they learn about coding, AI, and real-world problem-solving, and develop skills while inspiring girls to lead and make change More information here.

My Speaker Leads delivers an easy-to-use and sort spreadsheet containing 100+ leads for speaking opportunities direct to your inbox every week. Use this service ($19.99/month) to supplement your own research or speed it up. Professional speakers often work with a virtual assistant or a sales person to follow up on leads like these. My Speaker Leads is all about helping you gain momentum in your speaking career!

Now you can get speakers, exhibitors and attendees to promote your events with videos from AnswerStage.

Find out more about our new & renewing members on our blog!

Event managers can invite these speakers (and others) to speak at their events by signing up for a free account on the Innovation Women website. Watch for regular "Our Speakers in Action" feature emails.

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