Smart Women Take Risks: Six Steps for Conquering Your Fears and Making the Leap to Success »

Helene Lerner is CEO of Creative Expansions, Inc. (CEI), designed to help women actualize their potential. As an Emmy Award-winning executive producer, she has hosted and created over 20 programs for public television that have been shown nationwide. Lerner's popular Web site womenworking.com offers strategies on advancement, leadership, navigating work/life, and power networking contacts. She also coaches individuals and consults with Fortune 500 clients on techniques to increase their effectiveness.

Do risks scare you?

Are You locked in a comfortable rut?

Do you avoid change?

You're not alone. Many women find it difficult to take the kind of risks that can be critical to moving ahead in their careers.

But all that's about to change. In this breakthrough, no-nonsense guide, Helene Lerner shares her program for taking smart, calculated risks that will help you achieve your goals without fear, excuses or second-guessing. Her six action steps reveal how you can change your perception about risk-taking and make a confident leap to success by

• Committing to a goal
• Building a winning support team
• Determining if a risk is a Best Bet
• Claiming your victory

"Smart Women Take Risks combines an inspirational step-by-step program with the remarkable success stories of women risk-takers so you can blaze your own trail. It's smart, timely and on target."-Linda Kaplan Thaler, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, The Kaplan Thaler Group

"Helene Lerner knows a thing or two about risk, and a thing or two about women. That combination gives readers a book that is wise, savvy and eminently useful."-Sheila Wellington, Clinical Professor of Management Stern/NYU School of Business Inspirational as well as practical."—Carolyn Elman, CEO, The American Business Women's Association Helene Lerner is CEO of Creative Expansions, Inc. (CEI), designed to help women actualize their potential. As an Emmy Award-winning executive producer, she has hosted and created over 20 programs for public television that have been shown nationwide. Lerner's popular Web site womenworking.com offers strategies on advancement, leadership, navigating work/life, and power networking contacts. She also coaches individuals and consults with Fortune 500 clients on techniques to increase their effectiveness.