Leading Women Chosen As Finalist in 7th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business

Oct. 18, 2010 - PRLog -- PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Leading Women, a national organization that works with companies to advance and retain women leaders and with women to create careers that soar, today announced it has been chosen as a finalist in the 7th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, an international competition recognizing the accomplishments of outstanding women executives, business owners, and the organizations they run. Leading Women is competing in the Women Helping Women: Business Services category.

More than 1,200 nominations were submitted this year, a record total for the competition, for consideration in 54 categories by organizations in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A.

For a complete list of Finalists by category, visit www.stevieawards.com/women.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards. The Stevies are widely considered to be the world's premier business awards.

The final results of the 7th annual competition will be announced at an awards dinner at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City on Friday, November 12.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are governed by a Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors that features many leading women entrepreneurs and luminaries in business. They and their staffs will perform the final judging to determine the Stevie Award winners from among the Finalists.

About The Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Sponsors of the 2010 Stevie Awards for Women in Business (as of October 12, 2010) include the Business TalkRadio Network, which will broadcast the November 12 awards presentations live across the U.S.A., and KeyBank. Localization partner of the 2010 Stevie Awards is Lionbridge.

About Leading Women

Leading Women offers unique live, online and Self-Managed Solutions™ that support the success of women from career-start to the C-suite and onto corporate boards. Known for its singular and innovative ability to close the gaps between the critical success factors that women need to know and what they are taught, Leading Women helps organizations meet their goals for advancing and retaining women at all levels. Regionally and nationally, Leading Women supports Women's Internal Networks including those at Amgen, GTECH, Kodak, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Prudential, MITRE, and Sunoco.

The organization is led by Susan Colantuono, chief executive officer and founder of Leading Women . A renowned expert on leadership, an in-demand speaker, and the Providence Business News “Ally and Mentor for Business Women,” Colantuono is also the author of No Ceiling, No Walls: What women haven’t been told about leadership from career-start to the corporate boardroom.

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Leading Women offers unique live, online and Self-Managed Solutions™ to help women succeed from career-start to the C-suite and onto corporate boards and helps organizations meet their goals for advancing and retaining women at all levels.