Posts tagged #SisterCourage
Powerful women, you are a movement unto yourself.

Issue 137 — August 3, 2020

What do you think of when you think of a movement?

Picket signs? Pink hats? People marching and yelling? #BlackLivesMatter? Social justice perhaps?

It’s certainly true that we tend to think of movements as being about causes, because they often are causes that people feel strongly about.

Well what if the cause you feel strongly about is YOU?

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Remote Possibility: 4 Tips For Preparing To WFH Forever

Millions across the country who kept their jobs or were not frontline essential workers at high risk have been working remotely since March. The transition to WFH for many has hit rough spots complicated with childcare and homeschooling and cramped spaces not set up for a 9 to 5 workday.

But it always felt as if it was temporary. That may not be the case.

While many offices are safely reopening in the coming weeks and months, with many workers and leaders facing fear and loathing about going back to the office, what if you face the forever fact of never returning to a workplace outside your home?

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How Do You Become an Intentional Woman?

Issue 131 — June 15, 2020

There is ambition and there is intention. Ambition is I hope, I wish, I want. Intention is I will, I am doing it, there was never a question.

Elma Beganovich’s intention is clear: to win the same size contracts that any of the big four ad agencies would get based on her company’s ability and the talent she and her sister and cofounder Amra bring.

Amra and Elma founded A&E, a digital agency with an impressive client portfolio of Fortune 500 companies like J&J, P&G, Netflix, VF Corp, and Wells Fargo. They are mega influencers with over 2.2 million social followers.

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Serena, Bianca, Friends at 25 and 3 Powerful Leadership Lessons From the Woman Who Played Chandler's Father

Some great tennis was played at the U. S. Open last week. While many people were focused on the generational change among the top players — as Serena Williams was defeated as she tried for a historic 24th win by 19-year-old Bianca Andreescu — I was more fascinated by #SisterCourage behavior among the female players. 

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Step Up: 6 Ways To Offer Support For A Colleague’s Fail

In addition to our own professional setbacks, we have all had close friends and colleagues who have failed to get the job, promotion, plum assignment or key client they were counting on getting. Other than a superficial, “Gee, that’s too bad,” how can we best be allies and “success partners” for other women leaders who need the support and encouragement to try again?

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How Mentoring Can Help Women Climb the Corporate Ladder

It’s a common misconception that women do not help other women in the workplace and that those who do make to the top it do so with little help. However, when navigating today’s competitive work environment, it’s important to reach out for guidance. With more and more women leaning in and entering the professional workforce, mentoring is an invaluable way to build up more successful and talented businesswomen.

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Sisters-in-Law: How Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

When Sandra Day O’Connor  and Ruth Bader Ginsburg emerged from their private worlds of practice and teaching onto the public stage in the early 1970’s, the women’s movement was actively moving to become the next legal social movement. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which passed in the wake of the racial social movement also barred discrimination on the basis of sex, and women’s movement lawyers were starting to bring cases under it. Then, in the heady days of the 1970’s, anything seemed possible.

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All the Powerful Quotes You Need from Take The Lead’s Virtual Happy Hour with Gloria Steinem

I’m pretty passionate about advancing the rights and opportunities of women, so I talk about it a lot. But when you get the chance to hear longtime activist, author, and co-founder of Ms. Magazine Gloria Steinem talk with Take The Lead Co-Founder and President Gloria Feldt, you just listen – listen and learn

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Omniwomen Q&A with Gloria Feldt

If you’ve taken a look around – at news reports, books, and fresh research – you will have noticed that conversation around the gender pay gap is reaching a fevered pitch. Both men and women are talking more about why the need for gender equality in the workplace is vital to society and the world. This movement is central to Omniwomen, and we want to create an environment where everyone is welcome to debate this issue and work toward eliminating it.

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#SisterCourage: Take The Lead Connects

And here is what I know from being a leader and working to advance women in society as well as the workplace:  Women need each other. We need to learn the stories about how other women succeeded, the barriers they faced and how they overcame them. We need to know the barriers that our sisters and friends didn’t overcome,

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