The Working Week 122: Mary Cantando
What business lessons can we learn from a woman running a micro-enterprise in a West African village? As Wayne hears on this week’s show, the answer is “plenty”.
Wayne talks to Mary Cantando, founder of The Woman’s Advantage and author of Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity, about women in the developing world who have capitalized on personal and professional opportunities, contributed to their communities, influenced their physical environment, and overcome discrimination on the road to establishing self-sufficiency and building strong lives and strong businesses.
As Mary explains, when equipped with the proper resources – which can mean just a few dollars – women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. And the same lessons and best practices can apply to women anywhere, whether they are C-suite executives at multinational corporations or running part-time businesses from home.
