Anderson management graduate Elizabeth Ghaffari (’73) is president and CEO of Technology Place Inc., a corporation that delivers strategic technology advisory services to U.S. and international business clients.
Ghaffari has lived and worked in the U.S. and abroad, including in Tehran, where she was a contract consultant for development of case studies in export management, housing markets, multinational corporate joint ventures and environmental issues at the Harvard University Center for Management Studies.
Ghaffari has authored three books on women’s success in the workplace, and she recently spoke with the Huffington Post about her own trajectory to corporate leadership. She says that the most important lesson she’s learned in her career is that companies need good advisory structures in place. “As my company has matured,” she said, “I have come to appreciate the power of small groups of advisors from a peer level perspective. This is an important area for women entrepreneurs to consider. For the past several years, I've focused on governance (the strategic oversight of companies). I believe that men have a more natural tendency to ‘pick up,’ teams, but this is a skill women can and must acquire.”
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