Gretchen Glasscock

Current

• Pres/CEO at AW Coaching & Mentoring
• Pres/CEO at GG Web Group
• President / CEO at Advancing Women

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Past

• Financial News Editor at Hearst’s iVillage

Education

• Columbia University
• Wellesley College

Connections

74 connections

Industry

Online Media

Gretchen Glasscock’s Summary

Gretchen Glasscock, Pres/CEO of AdvancingWomen.com, AWCoaching.com and Pres/CEO of GG Web Group is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-San Antonio). She currently operates AdvancingWomen.com website, a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WEB), Careers.AdvancingWomen.com, AWCoaching.com, a coaching and mentoring website, the AW Career & Biz Blog , Advancing Women in Leadership Journal and NewEnergyResearch.net, a "green business" website. Glasscockhas developed, executed and oversees a number of websites for professional and business organizations, universities and software developers in the U.S. and Europe.

Glasscock’s websites have won Lycos Top 5% Award, Dow Jones Award, Beatrice-Yahoo Top Site, and WWWomen Best of Net, listed in Femina as a top women’s career site; have been featured in Elle, Self, Women and Success, and Fast Company magazines, Access, a Sunday Supplement, Business Class, an Australian magazine, and the San Antonio Business Journal.

Glasscock attended Wellesley College and graduated from Columbia University in New York City, took courses at Wharton School of Business. Glasscock has published and spoken on business and career issues and Internet technology internationally; has provided career and business content to Fortune 500 companies like Citibank and Hearst; has been published internationally by Cambridge University Press, by universities, military academies, medical and business societies, and financial organizations in Australia, India, and Saudi Arabia and translated into Mandarin Chinese, reaching a Chinese audience of over 2 million. She also served as financial news editor for Hearst.

Gretchen Glasscock’s Specialties:

Providing strategies, tools, processes and high level coaching and mentoring to support clients in reaching their career and entrepreneurial goals. Developing and implementing business processes to automate client's websites and online businesses.

Gretchen Glasscock’s Experience

• Pres/CEO

  AW Coaching & Mentoring

  (Privately Held; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  AdvancingWomen has been a leader in online career coaching since 1996 and now is introducing AW Coaching & Mentoring to extend our award winning communication and coaching platform. We are gathering a great team of coaches and counselors who will be able to help support our users careers in their specific areas of expertise. Now you a user can have his or her own online live coach to take the journey from where she is today to where she wants to be.

• Pres/CEO

  GG Web Group

  (Online Media industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

  Comprehensive web solutions and strategy to empower business and professional leaders to achieve their goals using the many powerful and affordable tools readily available on the web today. We help clients create and fine tune their websites & blogs in order to grow their business, build community and communicate more effectively with their clients or members.

• President / CEO

  Advancing Women

  (Online Media industry)

  1994 — Present (15 years )

  Glasscock founded AdvancingWomen.com, shortly after Netscape introduced the browser; the web site was the first to offer online tools support and strategy to level the playing field for women in career and business. It is winner of Lycos’s Top 5% Award, the Dow Jones Award, the Beatrice-Yahoo Top Site, and WWWomen Best of Net.
  Glasscock and Advancing Women have provided career and business content to Fortune 500 companies like Citibank and Hearst, been published internationally by Cambridge University Press, by universities, military academies, medical and business societies, and financial organizations in Australia, India, and Saudi Arabia and translated into Mandarin Chinese, reaching a Chinese audience of over 2 million. Glasscock also served as financial news editor for Hearst’s MoneyMinded.com/Woman.com.

• Financial News Editor

  Hearst’s iVillage

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; IVIL; Online Media industry)

  January 1997 — January 2000 (3 years 1 month)

  Glasscock served as financial news editor for Hearst’s MoneyMinded.com/Woman.com which morphed into iVillage.com

Gretchen Glasscock’s Education

• Columbia University

  B.S. , Writing

  Glasscock is a past member of the Board of Directors of National Association of Women Business Owners ( NAWBO-San Antonio); is active with the White House project, whose mission is to encourage women's participation in politics and to place women in the pipeline to reach the highest offices in our land; also active with Win With Women, National Democratic Institute, Washington, D.C. to promote women in political leadership in 65 countries and various organizations supporting the increased use and funding of technology.

  Activities and Societies:

  I attended Wellesley College and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in writing.

• Wellesley College

  Comparative Literature

  I attended my first year of college at Wellesley and was thrilled to go to a college which had produced women leaders like Secretary Madeleine Albright and Senator Hillary Clinton

Additional Information

Gretchen Glasscock’s Interests:

Developing websites, new web platforms, tools and technology, social media tools, marketing, entrepreneurship, writing, art, entertaining, travel

Gretchen Glasscock’s Groups:

Various organizations supporting the increased use and funding of technology. Columbia University Alums, Wellesley College Alums, Corporate Communication, Win With Women, National Democratic Institute, Washington, D.C. to promote women in political leadership in 65 countries

•    Women@Work Network, LLC
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    StartupNation Entrepreneurs Networking Group
•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    The Women's Conference
•    Corporate Communication
•    Texas Conference for Women
•    Purple Cow Disciples
•    Twitter Twittegy
•    Web Designing, Web Application Development , Mobile Application Development, Outsourcing Services

Gretchen Glasscock’s Honors:

My websites have won Lycos Top 5% Award, Dow Jones Award, Beatrice-Yahoo Top Site, and WWWomen Best of Net, listed in Femina as one of 4 top women’s business sites

Gretchen Glasscock’s Contact Settings

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• consulting offers
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• expertise requests
• business deals
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