Credit Due: Taylor Swift’s Advice About Power and Female Friendship

Issue 257 — April 22, 2024

I’m listening to Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, looking for inspiration for my more-or-less weekly column, “The Sum.” As in the sum of the week, what it means or what I learned about my favorite topics — women, power, and leadership — from whatever happened during the past week.

The last couple of weeks for me were all Beyonce all the time with the release and immediate race to the top of the C&W charts of her album Cowboy Carter. (How many versions of dancing to “Texas Hold ‘Em” have you seen on social media so far? I’m obsessed.)

The SumGloria FeldtApril 22, 2024Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Female Leadership, PowerToComment

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.

Yes, You Can: Hillary Clinton On Owning Ambition, Power & Happiness

“Accomplishment and happiness go together,” Hillary Rodham Clinton told an enthusiastic crowd during her recent talk for the Chicago Humanities Festival Joanne H. Alter Women in Government Lecture.

Remote Help: 5 Tips to Improve Quality of Life for Your WFH Team

In 2023, women make up 47.7% of the global workforce. They are invaluable assets to any professional team, and yet many feel overlooked and under-supported by their workplace leaders.

Due to the fragmented nature of remote work, the well-being of isolated employees can be difficult to manage, leading to burnout and other forms of employee fatigue.

But women are often more vulnerable to the impacts of burnout than men.

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.

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.

How Nancy Pelosi Aced the 4 P’s of Political Leadership: Power, Presence, Platform, and Perseverance

Issue 211 — November 21, 2022

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi gave the best speech of her political life on November 17, when after the 2022 midterm elections, she announced she would remain in Congress but would not run for Minority Leader again in January when the new Congress convenes.

Her words and her demeanor were a summation of her style of leadership.

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Even Hurricanes Don't Stop Women Who Mean Business

Issue 207 — October 3, 2022

“You’re going WHERE?” people asked.

“Don’t you know hurricanes are pummeling Florida and the Caribbean? Isn’t Puerto Rico getting hit?”

Um, yes, but when I take a speaking engagement, I show up.

The SumGloria FeldtOctober 3, 2022Women In Business, Female Experience, Female Leadership, gender equalityComment

Final call to submit your question for Carla!

What if we told you that someone was waiting on you to activate your Big RE?

Not next month, not next year but NOW?

Would you believe in yourself enough to start or would you continue to talk yourself out of what you really want?

Be Uma: Founder, CEO, Author on Manifesting Your Success With Confidence

She has always liked moving fast.

At seven years old, growing up in greater London, Rita Kakati-Shah told her physician father and zoologist mother (who was also a classically trained singer and dancer) that she intended to be a formula race car mechanic or race car driver.

Words Matter: How To Turn Your Story into Herstory and Action

“Every story has value, every woman has value and can make her valuable contribution, not just the rich, famous and powerful,” says Rebecca Sive, author of the new book, Make Herstory Your Story: Your Guided Journal to Justice Every Day for Every Woman.

Designing the Future: CEO's 7 Pillars to Successful Business Creation

Seven is considered a universal lucky number for those who believe in numerology.

Seven is an essential number in designing business strategy for Pamela Ayuso, CEO of Celaque, and author of Heptagram: the 7-Pillar Business Design System for the 21st Century.

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