February 19th is the anniversary of TTL’s launch event, so I want to revisit last year’s panel on women in the media with six trailblazing women: Julie Burton, Karen Finney, Erica Gonzalez, Aminatou Sow, Pat Mitchell, and Kristin Gilger.
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of TAKE THE LEAD THIS WEEK, with news, advice, and inspiration to advance women’s leadership.
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Read MoreFebruary is Heart Month. I had the honor of keynoting an American Heart Association Go Red for Women Leadership Forum event in New York, which Take The Lead co-sponsored. Heart disease is insidious, and because women are less likely than men to be symptomatic, it’s critically important to know our risks and symptoms. Here’s the essence of my speech.
Remember that great Fortune column by Warren Buffett a few years ago on how women are the world’s greatest untapped resource and the key to America’s economic prosperity? We might return to it as we think about what makes startups successful.
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“Dad, why does that sign say ‘Men Working’? Isn’t that sexist?”
My thirteen-year-old daughter and I are driving to the store, and there is road work ahead.
“Yes,” I sigh.
“Then why does it still exist?”
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On Wednesday, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgenson completed their grueling 19-day climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. And I was mesmerized. But why?
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New research from Approved Index, a UK-based B2B lead generation company, has disappointing news for the UK’s female entrepreneurs: the number of women on the boards of the UK’s top 100 startups has been continuously declining since 2010. In 2014, female representation at the director level stood at a meagre 8.37%. Compare that to the boards of the FTSE 100 Index, which includes many of the largest and most traditional companies in the UK. The FTSE 100 have witnessed incredible growth in female board representation: women now make up 22.8% of the FTSE 100’s board members.
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Every New Year inevitably brings a fresh wave of optimistic resolutions. We’re definitely going to eat better this year—no more flour, or sugar, or salt, or trans fats, and definitely no fructose. We’re going to exercise every day while simultaneously reading big books on important topics. And we’re going to volunteer to be a class parent. Oh, and we’re determined that this is the year when we’re going to lead fearlessly.
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At Take The Lead, we work from a solutions mindset to support women in taking their fair share of leadership positions across the board by 2025.
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I’ve read the same articles you have. I know women are more reluctant than men to tout our own accomplishments at work and that our lack of self-promotion often causes us to fall behind in salary and career advancement.
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We hate to repeat ourselves (oh, not really!), but 2014 was an incredible year for Take The Lead and our mission of leadership parity by 2025! Thank you to everyone—the fantastic leaders and facilitators and attendees—who joined us in 2014.
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Wow oh wow, has this been an incredible year of achievements for Take The Lead and our mission of leadership parity by 2025!
Thanks to you—whether you’ve been a donor, volunteer, course participant, you attended our amazing Take The Lead Challenge launch or you attended one of our other events—we have reached close to a million people directly and in collaboration with our almost 200 partner organizations. Not bad for a first full year of operation.
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