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Amy Siskind Discusses Decisions And Courage

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  • Date Added : 2/21/2014
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Amy Siskind

  • Director, The New Agenda
  • female
  • Caucasian
  • 1965 (Age: 59 years old)
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
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Biography

Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A highly successful Wall Street executive, she's Co-founder and President of The New Agenda, a national organization working on issues including economic independence and advancement, gender representation and bias, sexual assault and domestic violence.

A pioneer in the distressed debt trading market, she has a lifetime of experience with failure and remarkable success and knows what it takes to win. She became the first female Managing Director at Wasserstein Perella at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at Morgan Stanley and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner.

Amy Siskind received a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from The NYU Stern School of Business.

Every time I give this speech, this is the thing that resonates with women, mostly my age, because you're younger, but this will resonate with you as well. How many of you lie in bed at night, every night, and rethink what you did during the day? Okay, raise your hands, okay. I'll tell you a stor...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 8 Amy Siskind Discusses Changes for Women in the 1980s
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 3 min. 45 sec.
Video 2 of 8 Amy Siskind Discusses Changes for Women in the 1990s
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 4 min. 43 sec.
Video 3 of 8 Amy Siskind States Life Will Have Many Chapters
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 2 min. 9 sec.
Video 4 of 8 Amy Siskind States Importance of Working Hard In Your 20s
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 2 min. 15 sec.
Video 5 of 8 Amy Siskind Stresses Importance of Economic Empowerment and Financial Independence
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 2 min. 42 sec.
Video 6 of 8 Amy Siskind Discusses Decisions And Courage
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 6 min. 13 sec.
Video 7 of 8 Amy Siskind States Importance of Having Self-Interest and Searching For Your Passion
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 4 min. 2 sec.
Video 8 of 8 Amy Siskind Discusses Importance of Friendships And Having A Support Network
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 3 min. 53 sec.

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