by Elle Kaplan | Oct 22, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
Great ideas take flight when you are free of fear. Everyone faces fear, and that includes innovative, successful entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur’s very job is to swim upstream. The trick is maintaining faith in yourself and in your ideas despite doubt. If you...
by Elle Kaplan | Oct 7, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership
An entrepreneur can adopt a strategic management style that helps nurture an entrepreneurial mindset in her entire team. To foster a culture of entrepreneurial creativity and innovation, guide your employees to start thinking like intra-preneurs–people who bring...
by Elle Kaplan | Sep 22, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
In over a dozen years on Wall Street, I often found myself in the lonely position of being the only woman in the conference room. But fast-forward just over a decade, and I am now the CEO of a leading independent wealth management firm, LexION Capital, the only 100%...
by Elle Kaplan | Aug 25, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership
Soon after founding my independent wealth management firm LexION Capital, I met a New York Times reporter. He was interested in doing a feature on the firm, our mission-driven approach and fiduciary standard. I turned him down, much to his surprise. At that point,...