In Good Company

Empowering Today’s Female Millennials to Become Tomorrow’s CEOs

- Lynthia Romney

The good news for U.S. corporations and financial institutions today is that Millennial women— hailing from the best-educated and most ambitious generation of our time—are filling the pipelines and rising in the ranks. For companies seeking to boost the number of women in the C-suite, this appears to be a tipping-point moment. The winners in the race for Millennial talent will be those who can offer substantive opportunities to a mobile generation, and the skills, mentoring and experience they need to succeed.

The FWA: Paving the Way

At the forefront of the campaign to enhance women’s business success is the Financial Women’s Association of New York (FWA), founded in 1956 by a group of female pioneers on Wall Street. The FWA offers its 1,000 members a rich array of professional development programs all along the career continuum. It has enhanced the role of women in finance with long-standing high school and college mentoring programs; recent innovations such as the Pacesetter leadership development and mentoring program for Millennials; and the Back2Business initiative, which provides a pathway for those who took a hiatus from the workforce for personal reasons but wish to restart and reestablish their careers.