Standard Chartered Founder Talk: Laura Huang, author of Edge:Turning Adversity into Advantage

This event is proudly sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank, as part of its Women's Technology Incubator at The City College of New York.

Zoom Open: 12:25pm

Program: 12:30pm-1:30pm ET

How Female Leaders Can—and Must—Find Their Edge

Women entrepreneurs and leaders are taught from a young age that hard work is the key to success—don’t give up, keep at it, stay motivated, tenacious, determined and that’s how you’ll succeed. However that’s not what female leaders actually experience. Laura Huang’s research—inspired by her tenure in investment banking—shows that success in the venture capital world often came down to investors’ gut feelings, and therefore, unfortunately, their preconceived conceptions and stereotypes.

But what if women entrepreneurs could flip those stereotypes in their favor and create an advantage or edge? In this enlightening, empowering talk Laura Huang explains how women, and particularly women of color, can guide and redirect those very stereotypes which hold them back, and sharpen them into a unique and sustainable edge.