Posts tagged Change
Creativity Makes Change: Power Up Concert Performers Deliver
Creativity Makes Change: Power Up Concert Performers Deliver

“Just give us a chance for the next 2,000 years and we will clean it all up,” Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, told the enthusiastic crowd at the recent Power Up Concert closing out the recent 2023 Conference, “Lead Your Intention.”

Speaking about the mission of Take The Lead to reach gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025, Feldt said, “Get involved at the local level;, that’s how you make the change with intention. It’s fun to be part of what is going on in your community.”

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Women Career Success, Take The Lead EventsMichele WeldonPower Up Conference, Kathleen Turner, ChangeComment
Butterflies: Or, We’re All Evolving
Butterflies: Or, We’re All Evolving

Issue 208— October 17, 2022

We celebrated my husband’s life on the first day of the past week, Sunday, October 9. Those are words I never wanted to write, speak, or even think. Yet like many difficult things in life, we have to face them head on, and the only way through them is through them, into the next phase.

I was told afterwards that butterflies fluttered about my head when I told the story of why he volunteered to work the butterfly exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

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The SumGloria FeldtLoss, Volunteering, Change Comment
Fierce Is The Word: President’s 5 Predictions for 2020 Workplaces
Fierce Is The Word: President’s 5 Predictions for 2020 Workplaces

Stacey Engle, president of Fierce Conversations, understands perfectly the double meaning of the word. “Fierce to me is what you think of when someone is fiercely loyal, passionate, caring, courageous and getting to the heart of something.” She adds, “Someone can also interpret fierce as aggressive or too intense.” The two interpretations offer the opportunity to address what it means to be effective.

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Career success, Changing the Workplace, Leadership tools and tips, ParityMichele Weldon2020, Inclusion, Leadership Advice, Workplace Culture, Technology, ChangeComment
Creating A Workplace for Disability-Led Fairness + Inclusion = Good Business
Creating A Workplace for Disability-Led Fairness + Inclusion = Good Business

Ali Stroker was the first actor to use a wheelchair who won as featured actress in a musical at the recent Tony Awards, and she also won hearts and minds for her acceptance speech, not just her performance in “Oklahoma!”

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Changing the Workplace, Leadership tools and tips, Leadership/Organizational, Movement BuildingMichele Weldonbusiness, Change, Disability, equality, inclusion, women in the workplaceComment
Simply The Best: Fairygodboss CEO On Why Company Rankings For Women Matter
Simply The Best: Fairygodboss CEO On Why Company Rankings For Women Matter

You wouldn’t eat at a restaurant with a bad Yelp review, stay in a hotel that got 1 out of 5 stars (or no stars at all) or run out to see a movie that Rotten Tomatoes gave a low rating. So why would you work for a company that doesn’t make it to the annual best companies for women lists?

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Ambition / Intention, Change Leadership, Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tips, ParityMichele Weldonbusiness, Change, Leadership, women in the workplace, women leadersComment
Untouchables: Claim Your Safe Space At Work
Untouchables: Claim Your Safe Space At Work

Can’t touch this.

The recent uproar surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential hopeful whose spokesperson Bill Russo rebuked allegations about “supposedly crossing a line between affectionate or supportive behavior with women to something inappropriate,” calls to the forefront the need to make those lines very clear.

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Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonChange, Michele Weldon, sexual harassment, women in the workplace, workplace dynamics Comment