Keeping Score: 7 Tips from Women Leaders in Marketing and Media

The score was 32 to 14.

The recent Modern Marketing Summit 2016 in Chicago recently, a gathering of hundreds of digital marketing executives, creatives, agency leaders, retailers and mobile innovators, offered several all-male panels (see Take The Lead’s recent column on that issue here), with the  roster of speakers featuring 32 men and 14 women leaders in marketing.

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Young Women Leaders Reaching New Heights in the U.S. Military

This is not your father’s military.

The Naval Academy’s Class of 2020 will represent the largest enrollment of women in the Academy’s 171-year-long history, Meredith Newman reported recently in Military.com.  The news that these 331 young women, roughly 33 percent of the incoming class, will set a new precedent comes just as the Naval Academy celebrates 40 years of women being in enrollment.

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Loud and Clear: 20+ Ways To Improve Your Public Speaking As Leadership Tool

Fierce public speaking skills enhance the profile of your organization, mission or agenda– as we have witnessed in the past few weeks at both political conventions. Your effectiveness as a speaker can also alter the larger perception of who you are and broaden your reach in a larger public conversation.

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How Can You Create Effective Team Dynamics In A Quirky Work Culture?

Say you work with all foodies and paying that much attention to how your arugula is grilled doesn’t matter to you. Or what if everyone plays Pokemon Go and you wish Pokemon would just go away? What if each one of your coworkers rides a bike to work and you live too far to pedal plus you drop off children or carpool?

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