It is the first of many.
Suzanne Lerner, co-founder of Michael Stars, was awarded the first-ever Wear The Shirt Award at Take The Lead’s 2022 Power Up Concert & Conference, the Big RE: Rethink, Rewire and Recreate held recently virtually and in person in Phoenix, AZ.
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day is one day out of 365 to intentionally promote equity and fairness for all those on the globe identifying as female and to address the urgency of breaking deliberate and unconscious bias interrupting the path to gender equality. #BreakTheBias is the theme of IWD this year.
Read MoreBecause you are worth it. Because now is the time to rethink your life, your work, your purpose and take the action to shape the future you intention.
What the Great Reshuffle informed by the global pandemic has done to physical and remote workplace cultures, it has also done to you.
Read MoreSimone Biles is on the new August cover of Vogue. Viola Davis is on the August cover of Vanity Fair. It’s a good month for visual representation of strong BIPOC women leaders in mainstream media. But it’s been a long time coming. And it’s not nearly enough.
Even as the Biles’ photo shoot was criticized for how the lighting reflected the athlete’s skin tone as photographed by Annie Liebowitz, the trend of celebrating a wider range of women leaders is positive. Davis’ cover story was the first ever by a Black photographer, Dario Calmese.
Read MoreIssue 129 — June 1, 2020
We are in a profoundly disruptive time. A time when just a week ago, I could see many opportunities to reshape a better world post-pandemic. That’s until another pandemic, a pandemic of racism was laid so bare that layered on top of COVID it feels like a leaden blanket we’ll never be able to throw off.
As New York Times contributing editor Roxane Gay says, “Eventually, doctors will find a coronavirus vaccine, but black people will continue to wait, despite the futility of hope, for a cure for racism.”
Yet however difficult the task, we must seek a cure to stop the kind of violence that took the life of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many others.
Read MoreFourteen years into the commemoration of Equal Pay Day—or the day in the U.S. that all women catch up to what men earn for a year of work ending December 31, 2019—and women are still strategizing for pay equity.
It’s not a done deal. Yet.
Read MoreAll of us—we can assume—want to be good at what we do.
Many of us understand fully the need for validation, applause and recognition in the workplace. A nod from the manager, an email from the boss. It matters.
Read MoreIt was a gorgeous Arizona Sunday, not yet two weeks into the new year and the new decade. The 2020s. I love that nice round number. I was lighthearted, with the sense of optimism I get at such a time, when it seems like the slate is clean and the future open to our intentions.
Read MoreLouisa May Alcott is so 2020. At least her 1868 novel, “Little Women” in the hands of film director Greta Gerwig is. It’s a new feminist film far ahead of its time with lessons in leadership, ambition, motherhood, work and sisterhood that all women can use right about now. The lessons gathered from the latest iteration of the film also coincide with the 9 Leadership Power Tools created by Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead.
Read MoreImagine for a moment what the world would be like if men and women held fair and equal shares of top leadership positions across every sector. What are the words you would use to describe such a world? Last weekend, I got to do one of the things that keeps me so powerfully committed to this mission of gender parity in leadership by 2025.
Read MoreSundays may be the traditional day of rest for some, but Sundays are now also the day to take time for yourself to listen, learn and continue building the career of your dreams. The newly launched Take The Lead Women Podcast with Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, is a free weekly foray into inspiration that will help listeners define their purpose, own their power and learn leadership secrets from a variety of guests, as well as Feldt.
Read MoreLittle is more frustrating in a workplace culture than fearing repercussions for giving honest feedback. This is not about outrageous illegal violations, (because those you must report), or the “moral harassment” France Telecom executives are accused of practicing following multiple e
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