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12 Great New Books By BIPOC Women for Black Women Entrepreneurs, Leaders

Black History Month is just one month out of the year but it is necessary to honor and heed the work of Black women forever and always. Now you have a reading list that can take you through every month of the year.

In this collection of 12 recent books by Black women authors, Take The Lead salutes the energy, advice and brilliance of authors producing nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels and more.

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The Future Is NOW: Black Leader Leads Organization Into Intersectional Future

The future looks beautiful to Christian Nunes, MBA, MS, LCSW,  president of the National Organization of Women, the 57-year-old organization built from the grassroots to address gender inequality at the height of the civil rights movement.

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Open the Door and Nurture: Exec VP On How To Recruit, Hire, Retain Diverse Tech Candidates

Talent is ubiquitous. Opportunity is not. Getting in the door is key.”

Montreece Smith, executive vice president of people for Per Scholas, a national tech training initiative with 20 campuses and a staff of 500, placing 20,000 alumni at more than 850 employer partners, says she is helping to drive the company mission of opening doors to tech careers for persons of color.

“We are changing the face of tech,” says Smith.

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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

 Sharon Vinderine has a big mission for her company and her life, and it is founded on trust.

As the founder and CEO of Parent Tested Parent Approved, an awards-based platform with 200,000 community members in the U.S.  and across the globe, Vinderine has a long history of intention and entrepreneurship, but one first met with skepticism.

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Tis The Season To Be Reading: 18 of The Best 2022 Books For You

If you’re like me, and have a pile of books you are aiming to complete before the end of the year yet are still craving to know what is new and not to be missed, this list is for you. This is also a list for amazing gifts for the friends and colleagues in your life hungry for the best and brightest in nonfiction written by women who tackle workplace issues, personal struggles, strategies and insights to being your best self.

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Sex, Camera, Power: How Filmmakers Affect Gender Bias in Workplace and Beyond

What you see is what you get. And what you don’t see is what you don’t get.

Nina Menkes, award-winning filmmaker, director and creator of the new documentary, “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” anchored a recent panel following a screening in Chicago at Facets on the historic visualization of characters identifying as women and how that mandates how systems treat half the world.

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The 12 Best Leadership Lessons From Take The Lead in 2022

Who really needs a partridge in a pear tree? What many women in the workplace need is a reliable set of accessible tools, insights and proven leadership lessons to enhance and transform their careers and their work lives.

Take The Lead offers those valuable tips each week in interviews with a broad range of leaders across identities and communities in various industries across the globe, representing different approaches to distinct challenges many face.

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GivingTuesday CEO: Everybody Is Generous

“Generosity is a basic, positive human value. In today’s climate, it is a tremendously undervalued tool for depolarization,” says Asha Curran, CEO of GivingTuesday, a unique model of funding and community-based philanthropy in 85 countries, raising an estimated total of $7-10 billion over the last 10 years.

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Title IX at 50: Sports Drive and Inspire Women Leaders to C-Suites

“There is not anything that empowers girls and women the way sports do,” says Donna Lopiano, President and Founder of Sports Management Resources, at the recent conference, “Title IX at 50: Past, Present, Future,” spanning three days of events at Northwestern University.

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Expand The Truth: Women Journalists Explore Present, Future and Power Of Community

“I don’t believe in the luxury of neutrality when our bodies are on the line.”

Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor for The Washington Post, told more than 120 journalists from across the U.S. at the recent Journalism & Women Symposium camp in Austin, Texas, that her crucible as a journalist in the age of disinformation is to “expand someone’s imagination of what is true and how people see the world.”

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Close Achievement Gap: Helios Vice Chair On Urgency of Education Access

“Each generation wants their kids to have it better than they did,” says Jane LaRocca Roig, vice chair of the board of directors of Helios Education Foundation that has invested more than $300 million in educational initiatives and scholarships since 2004.

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