Female entrepreneurs recounted their journeys and challenges in building their careers in a session entitled "Women Entrepreneurs Forum: An Intergenerational Dialogue" at the Global Summit of Women (GSW) 2022 in Bangkok on Friday.
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“We don’t know what’s coming. I’m eager to see what the new normal will be. It will emerge,” Josie Natori says. Courtesy of Natori Co. Text size
Josie Natori may be the reigning queen of elegant lingerie and work-from-home loungewear, but don’t ask her to work from home herself.
Forty-three years ago, the Philippines native chucked a budding career at Merrill Lynch she was the first female vice president of investment banking to start a fashion label with her husband, Ken Natori, a former managing director of Shearson Lehman. Today, the Natori Co. founder veers more toward dressing up than down, and working-from-office, which is why she’s been heading into her Midtown Manhattan headquarters every day since June. Working from home may be part of the landscape at every company moving forward, and that growing trend may have kept her business afloat these past few precarious mont