How to Raise Ambitious Daughters Who Are Invested in Their Own Success

Our efforts to nurture women into leadership, stand up for equality, and have a voice as women ourselves are critical to the gender-balanced needs of our society. We know that women who embrace power with confidence are key to bringing leadership parity to every field. Some of our strategies for promoting women’s leadership are proving successful, however, so much of who we are and what we believe about what it means to be female (and our personal capabilities and aspirations) are built upon messages sent to us in childhood.

So Can Barbie Get a Different Car Now?

Sheryl Sandberg, Beyonce, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Malala Youafzai have all been on the cover of TIME Magazine. Barbie made her own breakthrough as a cover girl this week, looking more like women many of us know—or perhaps see in the mirror. At 57, Barbie is no longer just the thin “bad role model” type with her feet perpetually poised for high heels. She’s curvy, petite or tall and has a range of skin shades and hair types.

Change LeadershipTake The LeadJanuary 31, 2016Body Image, diversity, Encouraging girls, Take The Lead This WeekComment

Self-Employed Gap: Women’s Biz Worth 33% of Men’s

It’s time to not only bridge but fill the gender gap in the world of small business. Male self-starters earn 300 times more in their businesses than women do in their own businesses, according to a new report out last week from the non-profit Corporation for Enterprise Development out of Washington, D.C. The study measured growth of small businesses from 2007 to 2013 and studied a variety of factors affecting economic growth, prosperity and equity.

30 Women Making More than a Best-Dressed List

Iowa has been the center of the political universe this week as the first caucus makes every talking point of the campaign season count, so Fusion came out with a bold list of “30 Women Who Will Change The Election.” The series of 30 videos highlights the XX movers who move past “Washington types” and predictable party lines to create a group of dynamic change-makers.

How to Ask for a Raise or Anything Else You Want

Women are mistakenly too hesitant to fully own up to our own worth, talent, skill; even to step up to our own ambition. From a young age, we are acculturated to feel as though we are not enough, collapsing on false modesty. If you reframe that mentality to acknowledge all that you’ve accomplished in your career and

Tools and TipsAdele ScheeleJanuary 29, 2016Adele Scheele, business, Change, confidence, Equal pay, Negotiation, Women and Power

4 Ways I Came to Know My History and Embrace My Power

Originally posted on LinkedIn by Nereyda Esparza.

They say that you should write about what you know and love, and to me, there’s nothing more exciting than to understand how women can grow and embrace their power.

Last year at a workshop in Chicago I had the great pleasure of meeting the legendary Gloria Feldt, former CEO and President of Planned Parenthood and founder of Take The Lead, an organization that develops women to take equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. She introduced me to nine power tools effective leaders use to embrace their power, and I left inspired to start this project. Over the next couple of months, I will write short essays on each of these tools in an effort to inspire women, especially young millennial women to better understand #PowerTO, what it is, and why we should have it.

Is Your Networking Not Working? Here are 5 Ways To Build A Solid Network

Having a network is important, and to build a successful one, you need to dust off skills you may not have used since you were in school and had to navigate lunchroom politics and cliquish parties. It’s a fact – sometimes it isn’t what you know, but who you know that makes networking a crucial skill, not only to get ahead in business, but also to move forward in life. If you don’t have a solid network in place, don’t worry though, it’s never too early or too late to build one!

Gap Inc. Takes Home Catalyst’s Top Prize

You knew they were great at making basic t-shirts, but did you know they’re doing great things for women as well? Congratulations are in order for Gap Inc., winner of the 2016 Catalyst Award.

Julianne HelinekJanuary 24, 2016awards, impact, Take The Lead This Week, work cultureComment

Cheryl Boone Isaacs Wants the Oscars to Be Less White, Too

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a.k.a. the people who vote on the Oscars, are the first ones to admit they’re not happy the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag is still a thing. After the second year in a row in which zero actors of color received acting nominations, and with numerous celebrities speaking up about it, the Academy is taking dramatic steps to improve diversity in its ranks so that the whitewash doesn’t happen again.

Julianne HelinekJanuary 24, 2016diversity, Oscars, Take The Lead This Week, women in film Comment

Women Dominate the Conversation at Davos

Business and world leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland last week for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. Given that this is a meeting of many of the world’s most powerful people, you could guess that women are underrepresented at the summit, and you would be right. Women made up 18 percent of the participants at Davos this year. It’s an improvement over last year’s figure of 17 percent, but it still left a few women attendees noticing they were the odd ones out.

Julianne HelinekJanuary 24, 2016economy, feminism, gender parity, Take The Lead This Week, World Economic ForumComment

Marcia Reynolds on What It Takes to Turn Tough Workplace Conversations into Transformational Ones

We had a great start to our signature Virtual Happy Hours for 2016 with leadership coach and communication expert Dr. Marcia Reynolds, author of The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs. Her passion for how the human brain works inspired her to conduct research on how people react to those difficult conversations at work that worry everyone. She talks about how to make way for “maximum gain with minimum pain” in those tough conversations so they end up being transformational.

On Martin Luther King Day, What We Can Learn from Dr. King About Embracing Real Power

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today, as we commemorate the great Martin Luther King, let’s take a moment to not only listen to his words of wisdom again, but to stop and think about what meaning they hold in our own lives.

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