Cortney Stapleton, Partner at Bliss Integrated Communications and Founder of Exponent Women

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Patricia O’Connell interviews Cortney Stapleton, Partner at Bliss Integrated Communications and one of the Founders of Exponent Women. Patricia and Cortney discuss why women in the dealmaking community benefit from networking and having a place where their voices are heard and their power is raised exponentially.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in to learn how this networking organization can work for the dealmaking women in your organization.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> <br /></span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[:31] Patricia O’Connell welcomes Cortney Stapleton to CEO Stories on</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is Capitalism.</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[:57] Cortney and nine other women co-founded Exponent Women for senior women in the dealmaking community as a place where they can find content and partner with like-minded women to change the face of dealmaking.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[1:35] They wanted a place for senior women to come together in a trusted environment. The founders had done business with each other. They brought their networks together with trust in each other for deeper, more meaningful networking.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[3:06] Exponent aims to exponentially raise women to a new power within this industry. The dealmaking community is heavily weighted towards men, so they wanted to make sure women have a voice and meet like-minded senior women in these companies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[3:44] Cortney and the other founders believe we don’t see women networking the same way as men. Men network with the same people they knew in college, play golf with, do business with, and go to the gym with. Women have separate networks of friends that don’t mix and they don’t tend to do business with them.</span></p> <p><span style="f