Authenticity Is Key: Bring Your True Self To Your Leadership

”Why not bring your authentic self?”

Sandy Ko, founder and principal of Customer Contact Week Women, says her background as a South Korean immigrant shaped her leadership style and gave her permission to “exist loudly.”

“Growing up in the 90s, in my second corporate job, senior leadership was the Boys Club of all white males.” She adds that she found, “There is power in connecting outside of your wheelhouse.”

After moving with her family to New Jersey when she was six, she found, “Everyone had a network. We didn’t have any family here. It was difficult to find Korean communities.”

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Overcome Fear: Face The Future With Power, Intention & More Key Strategies from Power Up Conference

“Fear is an opportunity. Challenges are part of every life journey—in work, business, relationships, challenges are opportunities for growth,” says Homaira Kabir, founder of The Goodbye Perfect Project and a women’s leadership coach.

Career success, Career choices, Event, Leadership Power ToolsMichele WeldonSeptember 15, 2023Power Up Conference, Leadership Tools, Gloria FeldtComment

Honoring The Power In All of Us: Power Up Conference & Concert Delivers

“Intention is a pipe dream unless you put action to it,” Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, told the enthusiastic live and virtual participants at the fourth annual Take The Lead Power Up Conference & Concert on Women’s Equality Day in Los Angeles at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.

Delivering the 2023 Leading Company Award to Angel City Football Club and its CEO and co-founder Julie Uhrman, Feldt says, “I believe Angel City is literally changing the world for women in sports and the business of sports.”

Moving To Equality: Power Up Conference A Critical Success In Intentioning for Equity, Access, Partnership

“We need to move to keep movements moving,” Laura Vega, Power Up Conference Chair and Associate General Counsel & Senior Director, Legal Affairs of MicroVention, Inc., told the robust live and virtual audience in her welcome greeting at the recent Power Up Conference & Conference on Women’s Equality Day.

Introducing Gloria Feldt, the powerhouse behind the day’s events, as well as co-founder and president of Take The Lead, Vega says, “She is such an inspiration and role model.”

Taking the stage with an enthusiastic crowd of leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, managers, media leaders, students, writers and philanthropists, Feldt says, “In order to make big systemic change, we need to be big, be bold and be out there.”

Change Leadership, Career successMichele WeldonSeptember 1, 2023Power Up Conference, Women's Equality DayComment

Winning Leadership: Take The Lead’s Award-Winners To Shine At Power Up Conference

They are all in the fight to win. And when gender parity in leadership arrives, everyone wins.

Because of that dedication to the mission of fairness, equity, gender parity and inclusion, these four exceptional leaders—Angel City Football Club’s Julie Uhrman, Kathleen Turner, Ms. Magazine’s Kathy Spillar and Darnell Moore—are each duly honored at the 2023 Power Up Conference & Concert on Women’s Equality Day that coincides with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, D.C.

Fair is fair and these award-winners are fairly acknowledged and celebrated.

Career success, Event, Gender ParityMichele WeldonAugust 25, 2023Power Up Conference, Kathleen Turner, awards, Leading Man AwardComment

Women's Influence: Leading Man Award-Winner Darnell Moore on Activism, Equity and Healing Power of Access

Since the very beginning, Darnell Moore has relied on a community of women in his “huge” family with his mother, aunts, grandmothers, sisters and cousins contributing to his recognition that gender equity was absent and that everyone across identities needs to support each other in truth, healing and power.

Career success, Ambition / Intention, EventMichele WeldonAugust 18, 2023Leading Man Award, Power Up ConferenceComment

Exclusive Fireside Chat with Liz Elting

Do you have the entrepreneurial itch, but need inspiration from successful businesspeople to boost your untapped potential and lead YOUR intention? Are you an entrepreneur who can use some inspiration and practical advice? Do you have a vision of making enough money to become a philanthropist?

This chat is a unique opportunity to hear from a visionary leader who not only established her own successful enterprises but also champions other women’s achievements and their ventures.

Career success, Change Leadership, EventGloria FeldtAugust 17, 2023Power Up Conference, Equality Day, Gloria FeldtComment

Dreams Come True: MILCK On Her Music, Activism and Power Up Concert Performance

“I learned quickly on that my dream of being a singer wasn’t what my immigrant parents wanted for me. Making art for a living was for them not a reality-based decision,” says Connie K. Lim, whose professional name is MILCK; it’s her first two initials and her last name backwards.

But she did make her dream happen in a very big way, her using her power and voice in an enormously successful global musical career, activism and presence in the social justice equity movement and advocacy for truth and personal power. MILCK performs in person at Take The Lead’s Power Up Conference & Concert, “Lead Your Intention,” August 26 on Women’s Equality Day.

Secure Your Intention: Why You Need To Power Up At Women’s Equality Day Conference

It’s a fact. Networking works— especially for women across all industries and identities.

Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference on Women’s Equality Day offers unique opportunities for networking, learning, sharing, skill-building, strategic planning, understanding, and expressing your intentions on how and why to create the career and life you always imagined.

Reimagining Your Career and Life: How Power Up Conference Leaders Can Help You Thrive

It’s one mission to serve your country. It is quite another to serve your own mission.

Those lessons apply to every person making life and career adjustments.

“Women who have served in the military have successfully learned to maneuver in a closed, highly structured environment and within their own area of expertise such as logistics, combat arms, personnel, operations, and more,” says retired Major General Margaret (Peggy) Wilmoth, PhD, MSS, RN, FAAN, and professor in the School of Nursing at University of North Carolina since 2017.

Billion Dollar CEO, Founder: Liz Elting on Dreaming, Mentoring, Giving and Winning

Liz Elting was never lost in translation.

Founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, she started her first venture in 1992 as a graduate MBA student at New York University’s Stern School of Business with the creation of TransPerfect, a language solutions company.

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