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Risky Business: Founder Entrepreneur Says Risk Breeds Success
Risky Business: Founder Entrepreneur Says Risk Breeds Success

Risk is a four-letter word to many, and one to be avoided.

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Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonAugust 6, 2018entrepreneurs, Michele Weldon, Tools, women entrepreneurs, women leaders Comment
Best Offer Yet: New Take The Lead Power Tools Online Course Launches With Live Chats
Best Offer Yet: New Take The Lead Power Tools Online Course Launches With Live Chats

Of all the tasks and endeavors you may do online— shop, pay bills, watch your favorite shows or listen to the latest music—this one online course can change your professional and personal lives forever

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Take The Lead EventsMichele WeldonAugust 3, 20189 Power Tools, education, events, Gloria Feldt, Michele Weldon, women leadersComment
Carry the Spirit of Seneca Falls: Gender Parity in 2018 and Beyond
Carry the Spirit of Seneca Falls: Gender Parity in 2018 and Beyond

Gloria Feldt’s Remarks at Take The Lead Fundraising Event. Linda Stein’s Gallery,  100 Reade Street, NYC, July 18, 2018

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Inspirational Role Models, Movement Building, EventGloria FeldtAugust 2, 201850 Women Can, Gloria Feldt, inspirational women, Kathleen TurnerComment
That’s What She Wrote: 25 Books By, For and About Women in Leadership This Summer
That’s What She Wrote: 25 Books By, For and About Women in Leadership This Summer

It gets tiresome every publishing cycle when lists of recommended business and leadership books feature only male authors or a very few female authors.

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ParityMichele WeldonJuly 31, 2018books, list, Michele Weldon, women leaders, women writersComment
What Do You Do With One Wheel?
What Do You Do With One Wheel?

On an Amazon Prime day whim, I bought a box of LEGOs on sale and created an exercise using them for the “Your Power Journey” workshop I led last weekend at the Omega Institute.

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Gloria FeldtJuly 30, 2018business, gender-equality, Leadership, self-improvement, Women
Getting Outdoors To Look Inward: Women Ramp Up Adventures For Leadership
Getting Outdoors To Look Inward: Women Ramp Up Adventures For Leadership

First of all, her title is worthy of envy.

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Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonJuly 30, 2018female entrepreneurs, Leadership, Michele Weldon, nature, working mothers Comment
Mamma Mia! Women in Hollywood Showing The Money, Closing Gaps?
Mamma Mia! Women in Hollywood Showing The Money, Closing Gaps?

What do you get when you bring together an inter-generational group of independent working women to sing, dance, bond, thrive, make their own sexual and reproduction choices, run successful businesses and wear magnificent costumes spanning decades?

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ParityMichele WeldonJuly 27, 2018equality, film, gender parity, Michele Weldon, women in film, women leadersComment
Blind Ambition: Fill The Tech Pipeline With Anonymous Talent For Women To Rise
Blind Ambition: Fill The Tech Pipeline With Anonymous Talent For Women To Rise

“The Voice” has blind auditions for singers who aspire to be the next national singing sensation.

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Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonJuly 24, 2018Change, Michele Weldon, Tech, women in technology, women in the workplace, working mothersComment
Write On: Increase Your Career Success With These 6 Business Writing Tips
Write On: Increase Your Career Success With These 6 Business Writing Tips

Misspellings. Incorrect punctuation. Bad grammar. These crimes against writing exist not only in hurried personal tweets done in your spare time, but can be career-damning elements in your professional writing.

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Tools and TipsMichele WeldonJuly 23, 2018business, Michele Weldon, tips, Tools, women in the workplaceComment
Art and the Zen of Leadership
Art and the Zen of Leadership

Recent articles reporting David Solomon as Goldman Sachs’s next CEO invariably toss off that his hobby is being an electronic dance music DJ. They say this is “unexpected” or “unlikely” for a financial industry executive.

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Gloria FeldtJuly 22, 2018feminism, gender-equality, Leadership, self-improvement, Women
63 Is Not 100: Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Aims To End Disparities
63 Is Not 100: Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Aims To End Disparities

Sixty three cents on the dollar. That is what a black woman earns compared to a white man for the same work. White women earn 79 cents in the same comparison, and an Asian American woman makes 87 cents compared to the $1 a white man earns in the same position.

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Take The Lead EventsMichele WeldonJuly 20, 2018black women in leadership, Equal pay, events, gender parity, Michele WeldonComment
Flex Your Job: 3 Ways To Master Remote Work and Why It Helps Women Most
Flex Your Job: 3 Ways To Master Remote Work and Why It Helps Women Most

If you think remote work means pursuing your dream job in your pajamas, you may be right.

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Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonJuly 17, 2018business, Change, female entrepreneurs, Michele Weldon, women in the workplaceComment
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Every theory about falling birth rates points to women.

Women are too educated. Too free. Too focused on careers. Too burdened by structural barriers.

Gloria Feldt went looking for the theory that asks what men are doing differently. She couldn't f You walked out of that meeting certain something happened.

By the time you got to your desk, you were already replaying it. Editing it. Looking for the part where you misread something.

And by the time you opened your laptop, you'd fully talked you She didn't wait for permission. She built the table.

@gloriafeldt is the Co-Founder & President of Take The Lead, global expert in women's leadership and DEI, bestselling author of five books, and Forbes 50 Over 50 honoree. Her latest: Intention She doesn't ignore what she sees. 

She doesn't adjust herself to fit what doesn't make sense. 

She doesn't wait for someone else to initiate change.

Meet Amelia Pittner, Community Champion with the 50 Women Can Lead The Change program, and the wom You edited yourself before you spoke.

You softened the ask. Swallowed the pushback. Waited for a better moment that kept not coming.
And at some point the editing became automatic. You stopped noticing you were doing it.

That is not professionalism The meetings got scheduled. 

The reports got sent. 

The team stayed intact.

Nobody asked how.

What's the last thing you did at work that nobody noticed, and what would have happened if you hadn't done it? Emma Grede says "I don't think people wake up thinking about me."

That's not arrogance. That's clarity.

Most women spend enormous energy managing other people's perceptions of them at work. Editing themselves. Softening. Waiting to be see
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