ACS Webinar, April 21, 2011. Judy Giordan as speaker. "How many revolutionary innovations began with that simple thought, “I wonder if…”. Have you had an idea, but weren’t sure if it would fly? It takes science, business, and stamina to take on the high-risk but high-reward challenge of being an entrepreneur. Judy Giordan walks you through the initial steps of becoming a successful entrepreneur – from idea to realization."
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Judy and Joseph were featured in an article in Mass High Tech: The Voice of New England Innovation on March 30, 2011. In "Entrepreneurs help the next generation learn from their life lessons" Judy and Joseph explain some of the key issues that scientists moving into industry need to consider.
Judy counsels that "You need to understand what markets can you get into what price points and how much will they buy." She also advises that people think about their market strategy - "People think about, 'Look at my exit strategy', and, 'Here's my 30-second pitch.' We've sort of trained people to do pitches and that's unfortunate."
Judy was featured in an article in the Pittsburgh Examiner on September 24, 2010. In "Are Women as Competitive as Men???" author Tamanna Sultana, PhD, explains how Judy's 2007 NSF funded study, Project Enhance, shows "that confidence is the single best predictor of career success for women."
Judy was featured in an article in the Pittsburgh Examiner on September 24, 2010. In "Meet Women in Tech Series: Meet Judith Giordan" by Tamanna Sultana, PhD, Judy gives three points of advice to women:
Judy discusses the tendency for women to blame themselves when things don't go right, and asks whether all we need is to step back and gain a wider perspective. We need to align what we are doing in our lives and the choices we make with our own personal beliefs and values, and then we can find situations that are better for us.
Judy expounds on her mother's idiom "don’t throw out the dirty water until you have clean water" - sometimes we need a change, and for change to happen we need to take action! We all have times in our lives when we need to keep some "dirty water" around - a job we don't really like, a situation that isn't ideal - but so long as we acknowledge this is a temporary state and continue to move forward we can achieve our goals!
Judy encourages women to form their own "clubs" - to understand what is valued by those already members of that club and find ways to enter, or to make their own clubs based on their own values.
In her March 2010 talk at the Garvan-Olin Symposium at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, Judy Giordan expounds on the benefits of diversity and including women at the table. Judy discusses the women who made a difference in her life, and invites everyone to embrace a change process so that we can gain from the benefits of diversity.
Judy discusses some of the challenges she had to overcome throughout her career - from being rejected from graduate schools because she didn't have enough of a chemistry background (despite graduating third in her class), to her experiences as a woman in a traditionally male dominated company.
Judy then goes briefly into her vision of the big issues facing the chemical industry in the future.
Finally, Judy explains her focus on helping university entrepreneurs - both students and faculty - translate their research into innovations that can help the planet and help those who do not have a voice.
Judy discusses her 2007 NSF study on the factors that affect the success of women in the chemical industry. Learn what role mentors play in the success of women, how the confidence levels of women correlate to their success, and the lens through which managers perceive issues brought up by female employees. The bottom line - there is a business case for building diversity and inclusion into any company.
Judy then discusses her life, how she got interested in chemistry, the role her supportive mother played in helping her succeed, and more about some of the mentors that helped shape her career.
See Judy's presentation to the Pittsburgh Technology Council entitled "Women are GREAT Leaders, Investors & Entrepreneurs... So why aren't there more of all three..." (2009). Judy delves into the research on companies that employ women in senior management positions, the statistics on the number of women employed on Wall Street, and the success of women entrepreneurs. The bottom line: women are underrepresented in all three areas, and studies show that more women in all three areas is necessary for American competitiveness and the health of the global economy. Women need to proceed with confidence into these areas!
Judy was quoted in C&EN's article "What Researchers Who Want To Be Entrepreneurs Need To Know" with advice to scientists seeking to become innovators.
“The activity of commercialization is actually separate from doing science,” explained Judy. “Being an entrepreneur requires one to embrace both of these pieces. You can be trained and gain skills and vocabulary to be an entrepreneur, but whether a person can do the range of work required to be an entrepreneur, and feel comfortable doing it, is a different story.”
To read the full article, which includes further insights from Judy, click above!
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Entrepreneurial Track - Programming & Events Roadmap
244th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA -August 19 - 23, 2012
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The CIEC roadmap is the cheat sheet of selected events and programming at ACS meetings that are of interest to our constituencies. Out of the thousands of papers and events we have highlighted the topics of greatest interest - we've done the legwork to make your meeting easier!
Entrepreneurial Track - Programming & Events Roadmap
243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA - March 25 - March 29, 2012
Judy Giordan's article "Why it has to be women" was published in the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine in the January/February 2010 issue. In the article Judy highlights data on how companies that include women in senior positions tend to do better than those that do not - there are tangible effects. Judy asserts that qualified women do exist for senior management positions, and companies need to acknowledge that this is the case "... this is not a zero-sum game in which every position taken by a woman is one lost by a male, but rather that corporate growth and viability is a tide that raises all boats and creates greater value and opportunity for all."
The 2008 National Science Foundation workshop report Impact of Transformative Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education on Academic Institutions, prepared by the IGERT Program Directors Judy Giordan and Carol Van Hartesveldt, summarizes the findings of a 2-day workshop held in Arlington, VA, with institutional leaders and faculty with the goal of defining the progress of interdisciplinary research and graduate education and their impacts on academic institutions.
It's Elemental: Enhancing Career Success for Women in the Chemical Industry,
written by Judy Giordan, Ruth Fassinger, Julie Arseneau, Jill Paquin
and Heather Walton, features the findings from Project ENHANCE, a grant
funded by the National Science Foundation to the University of
Maryland.
Project ENHANCE was a 3-year study developed to:
Project ENHANCE data revealed five arenas that were found to be critical to women’s optimal career development:
