Betsy Polk & Maggie Ellis Chotas

Since 2003, Betsy Polk and Maggie Chotas have worked with many clients from community organizations, schools and universities to local governments, non-profits and healthcare providers. As a result of this work they have learned something powerful: when women work together they discover a level of support, flexibility, confidence, accountability, and freedom to be themselves that they rarely find in other work relationships. Drawing on their own twelve-year partnership and from interviews with 125 women business partners, Polk and Chotas demolish the myths that keep women from collaborating and offer advice for handling a host of potential challenges. This groundbreaking book shows that when women team up—combining complementary skills, channeling their egos into the partnership, and encouraging each other—they can work as full equals to achieve something that’s exponentially greater than each woman alone.