How Can You Help? 8 Ways You Can Step Up During COVID Crisis

During this unpredictable time of great personal and professional upheaval with threats to the health and economic security of millions, it is a good time to step up and give back.

Particularly if you are in a position where you have not been wiped out or depleted by COVID-19 and its consequences, you can use your resources to help others.

Ambition / Intention, Gender Parity, Leadership tools and tips, Leadership Power ToolsMichele WeldonApril 10, 2020Entrepreneurs, Gloria Feldt, Gender Issues, Gender Bias, Women Equality, Coronavirus, Covid-19Comment

Sizing Up Inclusive Needs: Co-Founder and Designer Makes It Fit

One size does not fit all.

Tanya Zhang is filling a fashion void with her new clothing line of shirts. But it is not for herself or other women, but for her spouse, father, and other Asian American Pacific Islander men who swear their shirts don’t fit.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Changing the Power Par..., Entrepreneur, Inspirational Role Models, Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonMarch 23, 2020Take The Lead, Female Entrepreneurs, How women can advance their careers, Entrepreneurs, InclusionComment

Be Who You Are: 4 Tips From Hair Care Product Founder On Natural Answers

“Be bold. Be Bomba. Be who you are.” This is Lulu Cordero’s mantra. The founder and creator of Bomba Curls, took a turn from her pre-med studies to economics at the University of Chicago, back to her Dominican Republic roots to develop a hair care company that celebrates the natural beauty of women.

Career success, Ambition / Intention, Change Leadership, Changing the Workplace, Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonMarch 9, 2020Female Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs, Womens Leadership, Take The Lead, How women can advance their careersComment

She Had To: The 19th CEO, Co-Founder On Creating News Site With Gender Lens

She got the idea for her latest ambitious journalism venture four years ago while on maternity leave for her first child. As more non-profit journalism sites were launching in the media landscape, Emily Ramshaw thought, “Why is there not one for women, politics and policy?”

Ambition / Intention, Changing the Workplace, Career choices, Leadership tools and tips, ParityMichele WeldonFebruary 24, 2020Entrepreneurs, Gender Bias, Women Equality, Women in Leadership, Gender issuesComment

Tell The Power Story: Power Up Conference Keynoter Leads Panel of 3 Arizona Mayors

Telling your story is a lot more than just saying what happened. It can be a powerful tool to advance your career and connect to community. “Stories have to service the community,” says Megan Finnerty, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, director of the Storytellers Brand Studio, founder and director of the USA TODAY Storytellers Project and moderator of the Power Up Conference panel, “Why Women Should Take The Lead in Politics.”

Ambition / Intention, Change Leadership, Inspirational Role Models, Parity, Leadership Power ToolsMichele WeldonFebruary 17, 2020Entrepreneurs, Gender Equality, Take The Lead, Women In Leadership, Power Up ConferenceComment

No Try, Do: Founder Entrepreneur Offers Tips on Success

Some entrepreneurs have a knack for turning personal needs into great ideas, and then turning those great ideas into huge successes.

Stacey Blackman, founder of Stacy Blackman Consulting, the Blacklight Channel and Stryke Club, is just that entrepreneur.

While she has been reaping rewards professional for two decades, early on, she was deterred.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Inspirational Role Models, Career choices, Change LeadershipMichele WeldonFebruary 14, 2020Entrepreneurs, Female Entrepreneurs, How women can advance their careers, Womens Leadership, Take The LeadComment

Driving Naturalicious: CEO on Confidence, Building Natural Haircare Brand

As the global digital communications director for Ford Motor Company, Gwen Jimmere had a company car that was a baby blue Mustang convertible, passes to the Super Bowl and paid travel around the world. But it was not what she wanted ultimately wanted to do.

Career success, Entrepreneur, Leadership tools and tips, Inspirational Role Models, Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonJanuary 31, 2020Entrepreneurs, Take The Lead, How women can advance their careers, womens leadership, gender issuesComment

Press Pause: Co-CEO Offers 3 Life Lessons For The New Year and Forever

At 34, Tania Luna has already held 30 jobs. Now co-CEO at LifeLabs Learning, the author, who also co-founded Surprise Enterprises, attributes her resilience to a complicated life viewed with gratitude and surprise. Luna thought the Brooklyn homeless shelter she and her family lived in during the early 90s was a hotel. They had arrived in New York when she was five years old from Ukraine seeking asylum after the devastating Chernobyl accident in 1986.