Thank You: 11 Ways Take The Lead Is Grateful For You
The closing moments of The Power Up Conference 2025, “The Courage To Lead.”
Huge gratitude to you from all of us at Take The Lead for 11 years of successful engagements.
Thank you, supporters, newsletter readers, sponsors, donors, advocates, and especially participants in Take The Lead courses and both virtual and in person events of all kinds. Your support means everything and this Thanksgiving season we send you our most sincere appreciation for the opportunity to serve you, collaborate with you, and/or communicate with you in any way.
As a small expression of our gratitude, we’re highlighting 11 ways Take The Lead can help you engage in advancing gender equity, for yourself and others, through resources, events, trainings, content, programs and more.
Paying keen attention to the needs and requests of women at all levels of leadership and paths, across numerous industries, Take The Lead offers a multitude of options to pivot and pursue goals in a challenging time.
We’re incredibly grateful to be doing this work.
Read more on Giving Tuesday and Take The Lead
As we’ve said before in this newsletter quoting Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead’s president, “Positive action is always the best antidote. It interrupts the cycle of negativity. When we do something — anything — it sets off a chain reaction that can lift us up from depression and anxiety.”
“Action interrupts the cycle of negativity. When we do something — anything — it sets off a chain reaction that can lift us up from depression and anxiety,” says Gloria Feldt, cofounder, pres @takeleadwomen #Thanksgiving2025 #action #leadership”
Here are 11 current and upcoming Take The Lead offerings and happenings that inspire us to gratitude this Thanksgiving.
Listen to Take The Lead on Giving Back With Gratitude
1. Cold Plunge Challenge.
Yes she did it--a cold water plunge as a challenge to raise funds ahead of Giving Tuesday. The goal is to raise enough to fund 100 scholarships for Take The Lead’s trainings. We’re thankful for Gloria’s bold plunge — and for donors who help turn cold water into warm opportunities.
“This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for everyone who’s brave enough to take the plunge for women’s leadership, and everyone who cheers us on from the warm side. Your generous donations keeps the ripple going,” Feldt says. “It’s not easy to plunge into icy water — or into leadership when the world is pushing women back. That’s why Take The Lead exists: to transform cold challenges into bold opportunities.”
Watch the replay and Join the Cold Plunge Challenge
2. Online leadership courses.
The 9 Leadership Power Tools Course has more than 5,000 participant alums who have taken this course either online or in person. Watch this spot because the Thanksgiving elves are busy revamping the self-paced, online courses to include AI support and Gloria’s information vault at your fingertips. It is applicable for those in every level of careers, across industries. Individuals can register for themselves. Organizations can enroll employees. Its differentiation is the way it starts with shifting the mindset around power and intentionality and putting into practice a skillset to accomplish intentions. Unlike most programs that do only training or one or two other interventions, our program includes the whole package that women need to break through barriers and succeed regardless of obstacles: training, coaching and mentoring, role models, thought leadership, and cohort community building. Each woman creates her Strategic Leadership Action Plan.
“ 9 Leadership Power Tools program includes the whole package that women need to break through barriers and succeed regardless of obstacles: training, coaching and mentoring, role models, thought leadership, and cohort community building.@takeleadwomen #genderparity #leadership #Thanksgiving”
Learn more about the 9 Leadership Power Tools
What Lizette said suns it up: From this course, I can now pin-point exactly where I am in the continuum of embracing and growing my power, leadership and professional growth through these power tools. It broke it down for me and I could reflect on each one and evaluate where I have been, where I am and how I'm using these to get to where I want to be. –Lisette Flores, Attorney and Activist
3. 50 Women Can Change the World
Yes you can! In our immersive 50 Women Can Change the World programs, participants also create cohort plans to advance women collectively in their industry. Feedback shows that 40% of women who have been through our cohort-based programs achieve significant leadership or pay advancement within six months. And 90% of participants report they feel more powerful, confident, and able to chart their own paths—and more likely to support other women.
4. Solutions for Women’s Leadership Goals.
Take The Lead offers a bounty of programs for companies supporting training for their employees and colleagues with virtual and in-person training, coaching and consulting. At a time when DEI is under attack federally, administrators and leaders in the nonprofit as well as corporate and small business sectors can choose from many offerings that can improve the workplace culture, productivity, profitability and innovation. They can also license the program. Such an investment results in not just transparency and visibility, but retention and profitability for the enterprise.
5. Linked In Live.
Recently launched, these LinkedIn Live discussions hosted by Take The Lead Leadership Ambassador Felicia Davis, dive into topics with Power Tool Champions who have graduated from our courses across industries to discuss key issues facing women leaders and allies. Sessions are also available by link after the live event. These are bite sized opportunities to meet and learn tips from extraordinary women leaders.
“Grateful to learn from @takeleadwomen @LinkedInLive sessions addressing latest topics in #leadership #genderparity #Thanksgiving”
6. Partner for Parity.
We believe in collaboration. Working with your organization, Take The Lead loves to sponsor events, trainings, programs, scholarships and more means reaching audiences across social media platforms, events, and in-person engagements. For nonprofit organizations, companies, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and government entities, we are grateful for the opportunity to work together because we are stronger together.
Learn more about Partner For Parity here
7. Free Award-Winning Movement Blog and Weekly Newsletter.
Every week Take The Lead’s Movement Blog offers resources, information, evidence and solutions on hot topics affecting women across generations, career levels, identities and industries. From profiles of leaders from across the world, to roundups of important conferences in tech and many other industries, the award-winning blog is currently named #3 out of 35 International Women’s Leadership Blogs.
“This Movement Blog @takeleadwomen is ranked #3 out of 35 Best International Women’s Leadership Blogs. Read, enjoy, subscribe to the free #newsletter to stay on top of your leadership journey. #womensleadership ”
The free newsletter also includes The Sum, a column by Feldt offering wisdom and personal insight into the latest happenings and news in women’s leadership; Power To Change stories featuring women from around the world offering in their own words what their ideas and work have the power to change; the latest links and updates to Courses, Events and offerings from Take The Lead, and Eye Opener of The Week, focusing on a new study, research or insight affecting women’s lives and work. Read The Movement Blog here.
Sign up here for the weekly newsletter
8. Podcasts To Inform and Inspire.
Scores of sessions and conversations are available to you free on youtube and the Take The Lead website, podcasts anchored by Feldt and a wealth of highly esteemed experts in deep conversations about hot topics and ongoing issues relevant to your work and life.
Listen here to Intentioning This podcasts.
9. Events.
From benefit movie screenings to one-time workshops, fundraisers, keynotes, mentoring sessions, art shows, book signings and so much more, Take The Lead has a weekly and monthly bounty of in-person and virtual happenings that relate to your leadership journey, putting you in proximity to mentors and advisors, collaborators and like-minded leaders. They are listed in the weekly newsletter. Watch this spot for another way you can get involved and create local programming by forming 50 Women Can Lead the Change in your area.
10. Leadership Ambassadors.
You can train to be a Leadership Ambassador to work with us to be part of the great movement connecting to your community and the larger global community of Take The Lead for the purpose of accelerating gender parity in leadership.
Whatever your area of leadership development expertise, top notch facilitation and training skills and alignment with the mission are a must. If you are also a qualified coach, you’ll bring extra value, and be able to earn additional revenue. We anticipate a Leadership ambassador training in Q1 2026.
“Become @takeleadwomen Leadership Ambassador and be part of a community of #leaders with #mission to achieve #genderequity across all industries. #Thanksgiving ”
Candidates will also have a willingness and ability to promote and secure opportunities to deliver Take The Lead’s training programs and will receive a generous revenue share if they secure funding. In other instances, Take The Lead secures the funding and hires Leadership Ambassadors as independent consultants to deliver programs.
Learn more on how to become a Leadership Ambassador
11. Power Up Conference on August 25-26, 2026.
The cherry on top of the icing on the cake is when we all get together for the annual Power Up Concert and Conference. Please put the date on your calendar now. August 26 is Women’s Equality Day and next year’s theme is “Audacity: Leadership in Action.” There are opportunities to become part of this event as a volunteer, exhibitor, sponsor, committee planner, participant, vendor and more. With hundreds of attendees, you can be a part of a vibrant day of learning, mentoring, connecting and showcasing talents and insights. And of course having fun! Sign up to learn more about how you can become involved in Power Up Conference 2026, in Washington D.C..
Watch the Power Up Conference 2025 highlights
Thank you again for allowing us to serve you if you’ve been a participant, and thank you if you’re a donor who has made it possible for Take The Lead to grow and deliver its life changing and career enhancing programs. Contact us any time at takethelead@taketheleadwomen.com--we love to hear from you.
We wish you and your loved ones a delicious and meaningful Thanksgiving.
“Get on board now for @takeleadwomen #PowerUp2026 Conference, Audacity: Leadership in Action as sponsor, partner, speaker, participant, advocate on #WomensEqualityDay. ”