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Gloria Feldt’s 9 Practical Women’s Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career Online Course is one not to miss!. This is truly an incredible opportunity to learn from a genuine feminist activist and leader.

I needed a change and I was at a fork in the road of life. Thanks to Gloria’s 9 Practical Women’s Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career Online Course,

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Women Organize Conferences, People Get Nervous

On May 16, The New York Times ran a piece, “Feminism, One Conference at a Time” pointing to how women’s leadership conferences are on the rise and this movement/industry will only continue to grow. While many argue these conferences cater to the privileged few, I think they represent something absolutely worth supporting: more visibility for what we too often categorize and dismiss as “women’s issues” and a movement for gender equity that is quickly picking up speed.

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The Meaning of Crackers, or What Painful Memory Holds You Back?

Stefi materialized like a sea sprite during our first breakfast at the Dubrovnik estate overlooking placid turquoise Adriatic waters. In an uncharacteristically impulsive act, I had purchased four nights for four people in this Croatian paradise at a charity auction. And here we were, absorbing the wonders of this gorgeous place, complete with Nada the amazing chef, a driver—and Stefi.

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Skip the Selfie: Find Your Idea Partners

The following is the first in a 2-part series of how to start your change based on the new book, “Make Waves: Be the One to Start Change at Work and in Life.”

I’ve spent the last two years interviewing those who have started changes at work or in life — or “wave makers,” as I call them. As I heard stories about “waves,” such as a newly created company, a new non-profit or a new way to involve customers in developing new products, I asked how it all came to be.

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Women Who Cut Through the Noise

For months, I’ve been obsessed with the question, “How do we stay with a story and think about it deeply after it passes through the news cycle?” With information moving so fast, so much of it coming at us once, and so much incentive for media companies to keep throwing it at us 100 different ways, how do we collectively just stop for a minute and wrestle with the stories and questions that are really important to us to look at in society?

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Don't Just Run for Office—Win: Five Leadership Lessons

By Mary Hughes

Across the country, filing deadlines are passing and political campaigns are underway. With women at such a deficit in every state legislature (24 percent) and in Congress (18 percent), we need good women candidates running their best races. Whether you’re running for Congress or the local business council, you might do well to follow these reminders. Actually, these guidelines would help anyone seeking leadership.

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