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How Black History Month Can Help Us All “Uncover Ourselves”
How Black History Month Can Help Us All “Uncover Ourselves”

Issue 190 — February 7, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project said it like this: “At some point when you have proven yourself and fought your way into institutions that were not built for you, when you’ve proven you can compete and excel at the highest level, you have to decide that you are done forcing yourself in,” she writes in her statement explaining why she left the University of North Carolina after an acrimonious but ultimately successful tenure battle to take the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at Howard University.

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The SumGloria FeldtBlack History Month, Intentioning, Black Lives Matter, RacismComment
Let's See: Why Black Women Must Be Visible Beyond Black History Month
Let's See: Why Black Women Must Be Visible Beyond Black History Month

Yes, there is a Rosa Parks signature series Barbie doll, Ella Fitzgerald Barbie (who comes with a standing microphone), Ida B. Wells Barbie with a newspaper in her hand, as well as Katherine Johnson (with an ID badge around her neck) and Maya Angelou Barbies, each in the collector series costing about $30.

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The SumMichele Weldonblack women in leadership, Black Business, Women Leaders, intersectionalityComment
Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Fierce Urgency of Now” — Updated for 2022
Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Fierce Urgency of Now” — Updated for 2022

Issue 189— January 17, 2022

I honestly can’t believe that my column on January 18, 2021, recognizing Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday barely struck the alarm it deserved.

How could I not have drawn brightly the profound contrast between Dr. King’s exhortations to Civil Rights movement activists to hold nonviolent protests and last year’s January 6 violent breech of the Capitol?

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The SumGloria FeldtMartin Luther King, Racial Equity, gender equality, Activism, Voting Comment
Imagine: What if You Could Turn Implicit Bias into Your Superpowers?
Imagine: What if You Could Turn Implicit Bias into Your Superpowers?

Issue 186 — December 6, 2021

Dr. Harbeen Arora enters a full room of women leaders from around the world. She lightly clangs a spoon against a teacup. Immediately, attention focuses on this petite woman, whose passion fuels her intention for global gender equality. Soft spoken and eminently gracious, she calls one by one on the G100 global chairs and then country chairs eager to join in her bold vision; she aims to mobilize a global network of powerful women and men who support the effort to turn the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #5, to “Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls” by 2030 from rhetoric to reality.

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The SumGloria FeldtWomen Leaders, gender equality, Parity, Workplace Culture, Leadership ToolsComment
Thank You! We’re Celebrating What You Made Possible
Thank You! We’re Celebrating What You Made Possible

Issue 185 — November 22, 2021

Before holiday season gatherings (in person or virtual — please stay safe), I’m taking a moment to say how grateful I am for all we have accomplished together despite pandemic-induced setbacks. Seriously, it has been amazing to look back at 2021 and realize that thanks entirely to your support, Take The Lead has provided over 10,000 women with resources and actionable tools to navigate career challenges and changes. You helped us help women rethink, refresh, retool, or revise their career intentions. And those are just the ones we can count.

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The SumGloria FeldtTake The Lead, Intentioning, Power Up, Leadership Tools, Career SuccessComment
How to Solve the “Great Resignation”
How to Solve the “Great Resignation”

Issue 184 — November 15, 2021

The Microsoft Work Trend Index says over 40% of the global workforce is considering leaving their current employer, and 46% plan to make a significant career pivot.

This and other recent studies have pundits and business leaders wringing their hands about the difficulty of filling jobs in the wake of the pandemic’s massive economic disruption.

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The SumGloria FeldtWorkplace Culture, Work/Life Balance, Great Resignation, burnoutComment
Saving Daylight: what time is it anyway and why does it matter?
Saving Daylight: what time is it anyway and why does it matter?

Issue 183 — November 8, 2021

Don’t you love the day each year that we get an extra hour?

Well, maybe not so much if you have small children whose body clocks still awaken them and their parents, at what will now be one hour earlier than before.

And maybe you’d prefer to keep daylight saving time all year to stave off darkness in the late afternoon, thus reducing seasonal affective disorders while avoiding the complications of a mid-year time change.

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The SumGloria FeldtIntentioning, Gender Equity, Covid-19, Take The Lead, DonationComment
The Great Returnship, or What’s a Leader to Do to About It?
The Great Returnship, or What’s a Leader to Do to About It?

Issue 182 — October 25, 2021

The buzz is everywhere now. Are you in the office yet? As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with the Shecession and the Great Resignation, now comes the Great Returnship.

And since women have lost or left more jobs than men and have been slower to return, special emphasis must be placed on Take The Lead’s goal to #putwomenatthecenter of the recovery. There are so many questions.

Is your workplace ready? Does your boss want you to come back to work in person but you aren’t so sure you are ready? Are you anxious about getting back among larger groups of people?

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The SumGloria FeldtWorkplace Culture, Job Change, Covid-19Comment
It’s Intentioning launch day! But why are there 9 Leadership Intentioning Tools?
It’s Intentioning launch day! But why are there 9 Leadership Intentioning Tools?

Issue 1789— September 27, 2021

[Special Note: Today 9/28/21, my new book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good is formally birthed into the world. It is incumbent upon me as the author to ask you to buy it, review it, and share it on social media. And seriously, despite the cheesiness I feel making that ask, I do want this book to reach thousands or millions of women like you to help you embrace your power, elevate your intentions, and use the tips and tools in this book to get the lives and careers of your dreams. And what I know is that if you don’t ask, you don’t get. OK? OK! Thank you for your support.]

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The Sum, Ambition / IntentionGloria FeldtGloria Feldt, Intentioning, Leadership Books, 9 Power ToolsComment