If you are like me, you have likely been chastised that as a woman in business, you cannot allow your private life to leak into your professional life. Keep your relationship business to yourself. Stay quiet on the home front. The fun front. The hobby front. The relationship front. The complications front.
Read MoreThe Pink Petro HERWorld Energy Forum on International Women’s Day 2017 marks the official launch of the collaboration between Pink Petro and Take The Lead, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing, developing, inspiring and propelling women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025.
Read MoreWashington Post publisher and owner Katharine Graham reportedly once said, “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how can anything be more fun?”
Read More“Black women are not a monolith,” says Kimberly Peeler-Allen, co-founder of Higher Heights For America, an organization dedicated and committed to increasing black women’s political engagement.
Read MoreConsider this the Cliff Notes version. The skimming has been done for you, saving you time reading the 214 pages of Gallup’s latest tome, “State of The American Workplace,” with what you need to know as women leaders.
Read More“The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man,” said Susan B. Anthony, who was born February 15, 1820 and is best remembered as the suffragist who helped women earn the right to vote.
Read MoreIt’s not selfish, narcissistic, spoiled or just trendy. It’s healthy.
Women in the workplace can use and benefit from mindfulness practices and self-care perhaps more than men, research finds. That may have to do with the propensity for working women—and working mothers especially— to multitask most every hour of the day.
Read MoreIt’s already a t-shirt, in many different stylesfrom multiple sources, plus it’s a tote bag.One version is on amazon. Many benefit different organizations, from the Southern Poverty Law Center to the ACLU, with styles that benefit their causes.
Read MoreThere was the rise of the bro-palace open office space sparked by Silicon Valley with ping pong tables, video games and kegs of beer in the office lunchroom. Many women who worked in those spaces wondered when it would be time to flip the switch and honor the preferences of some of the women who might reside there. Most just went along with the male-heavy ride.
Read MoreTo properly salute the 100th edition of the Take The Lead This Week newsletter, we look outside of Take The Lead to gather a list of our favorite lists of women global leaders, healers, executives, entrepreneurs, funders, innovators, groundbreakers and cookie makers. We hope these may become some of your favorites too.
Read More“Know your history.” It’s the first Power Tool in the 9 Leadership Power Tools created and developed by Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead’s co-founder and president.
Read MoreThe hotly contested Audi television commercial premiering at The Super Bowl features a father mulling over how to tell his young daughter the financial facts of life.
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