Meghan Juday and Marina Vaughan Spitzy: How Women in Power Balance Bias with Opportunity

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and strategies for women in leadership roles within family businesses, featuring insights from Meghan Juday and Marina Vaughan Spitzy.

Interview with Meghan Juday, Chair of Ideal Industries Inc., governance advisor, and founder of The Lodis Forum, and Marina Vaughan Spitzy, founder of legacy planning firm, Tecolote Advisory, and fifth-generation family business stakeholder Whether gender bias exists within the world’s family enterprises has been unequivocally answered. Yet, despite the gender barriers they face – or possibly because of them – women are amplifying their voices and advocating for themselves within their family enterprises and the male-dominated boardrooms of businesses globally. Many women are actively demanding the change they want to see, and the resources they need to excel, as they increasingly recognise and understand the value they bring to every organisation and, maybe most especially, the family business. In this episode, Meghan Juday, Chair of Ideal Industries Inc., governance advisor, and founder of The Lodis Forum, and Marina Vaughan Spitzy, founder of legacy planning firm, Tecolote Advisory, and fifth-generation family business stakeholder, and Ramia El Agamy, Co-Founder of WiFB, discuss the results of their recent study entitled ‘Women in Power’ for which they interviewed near a dozen…

People in this episode

Host: Women in Family Business

Guests: Meghan Juday, Marina Vaughan Spitzy

Topics covered

• gender bias
• family business
• women in leadership
• advocacy
• empowerment
• professional challenges

Keywords

• gender bias
• family enterprises
• women empowerment
• leadership
• advocacy
• business challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ideal Industries Inc., The Lodis Forum, Tecolote Advisory

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