Posts tagged diversity
Where Are The Best Jobs? 5 Strategies for New Grads Landing Tech Careers
Where Are The Best Jobs? 5 Strategies for New Grads Landing Tech Careers

 

It’s job application season for those who are graduating this winter and spring.

 

The good news is newly minted students graduating now with undergraduate and graduate degrees are finding high paying jobs in engineering, computer and IT, plus transportation, according to new data from QRFY.

 

But for many women and those identifying as women, the work cultures of engineering and tech jobs are steeped in gender and racial bias.

 But where there is disruption, there is opportunity to change the culture.

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Career success, Career choices, Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonWomen In Tech, careers, diversityComment
Come Celebrate 8 With Me: Free Birthday Concert for Women’s Equality on August 25
Come Celebrate 8 With Me: Free Birthday Concert for Women’s Equality on August 25

There’s a reason Marina Arsenijevic’s story is the longest in my book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and Why Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good. She’s the archetype Intentional Woman and the role model for Leadership Intentioning Tool #2: Dream UP, because if your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.

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The SumGloria FeldtPower Up Conference, Women's Equality Day, diversityComment
See Them, Hear Them: New CEO Aims For Media, Pop Culture To Drive Social Change
See Them, Hear Them: New CEO Aims For Media, Pop Culture To Drive Social Change

“What we don’t see, what we don’t hear, we cannot humanize,” says Nakisha M. Lewis, the new president and CEO of Breakthrough, a global nonprofit that uses the power of media, technology and popular culture to transform systems around gender, race, sexuality and immigrant rights.

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Changing the Power Par..., Parity, Movement Building, Media, Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonBlack Lives Matter, Representation, diversity, mediaComment
North Star: Soledad O’Brien On Listening, Point of View, Stories, Fairness and Values
North Star: Soledad O’Brien On Listening, Point of View, Stories, Fairness and Values

“As an organization and an individual, you have to stick to your North Star,” Soledad O’Brien, founder and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, told a virtual convening of two cohorts of Take The Lead’s 50 Women in Journalism Can Change the World.

“The story of one’s arc of one’s life is to figure out what your values are,” says O’Brien, award-winning journalist, speaker, author and philanthropist who anchors and produces the Hearst Television political magazine program, “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien.”

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Ambition / Intention, Career success, Change Leadership, Changing the Workplace, Inspirational Role Models, Women Career SuccessMichele Weldon50 Women Can Change The World, 50 Women In Journalism, Female Journalists, Inclusivity, diversity, EquityComment
True Believer: CEO, Founder on Guiding Leaders Through A DEI Reckoning
True Believer: CEO, Founder on Guiding Leaders Through A DEI Reckoning

From the age of five, Jennifer Brown was performing. On stage, she was singing and dancing as a child growing up in Southern California in a musical family, then as an adult pursuing a singing career.

“I love the adrenaline, I love being under pressure,” says Brown, the CEO and founder of Jennifer Brown Consulting, a global strategic leadership and diversity consulting firm that coaches business leaders on critical issues of talent and workplace strategy. “Which is good because I have three 90-minute keynotes online today,” Brown says.

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Changing the Workplace, Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par..., Leadership tools and tips, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonDiversity Equity and Inclusion, diversity, Women In Business, Women Leaders, LGBTQComment
So Far, Not So Good: Are Diversity & Inclusion Efforts Really Working?
So Far, Not So Good: Are Diversity & Inclusion Efforts Really Working?

While Take The Lead has a mission of gender parity across all sectors in leadership of 2025, the rest of the world may be on a much slower time frame. Implementing diversity and inclusion efforts to make a fair and balances workforce that represents the population by gender, race, age, ethnicity, ability, orientation and more is taking a lot more time than originally thought

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Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonChange, diversity, equality, Michele Weldon, parityComment