Silent Auction Profile: She Negotiates Co-Founder Helps You Get What You Deserve

Victoria Pynchon, co-founder of She Negotiates Consulting and Training, says perhaps her biggest negotiation win was helping a female lawyer increase her offer by $500,000 to $850,000, plus other perks.

Ambition / Intention, Life tools and tips, Parity, Leadership Power ToolsMichele WeldonJuly 22, 2019Take The Lead This Week, Ambition / Intention, blog, Changing the Power Paradigm, Leadership Power Tools, Life tools and tips, ParityComment

10 Commencement 2019 Speeches From Women Leaders To Inspire You

You may have attended a commencement speech this season for a friend, son, daughter, niece, nephew, cousin, parent or partner. Sometimes the speeches are full of inspiration and sometimes the speeches fall flat. Especially if the speaker is trying to be funny. And isn’t.

Ambition / Intention, Career choices, Career success, Inspirational Role Models, Mentors and SponsorsMichele WeldonJune 24, 2019female entrepreneurs, inspiring women, Leadership, women in business, women leadersComment

Play Fair: Why Women’s Earnings Peak and Gender Pay Gap Matter

New research from PayScale shows that women’s lifetime earnings peak at an earlier age than do men’s, and the gap never improves, setting up a lifetime of playing catch up that never pans out.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par..., Changing the Workplace, Finance/Money, Movement Building, Women Like YouMichele WeldonJune 18, 2019business, Equal pay, gender equality, Women and Power, women in the workplaceComment

Turn The Page: 12 Books By Women, For Women You Must Read This Summer

Search online for “women’s leadership books,” and the first four books that pop up are by men. Search again with the keywords “women business books” and you get offers for dozens of daily bound planners. And does anyone really use those anymore? Sigh. So Take The Lead took the lead on

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Inspirational Role Models, Women Like YouMichele WeldonJune 14, 2019Inspirational Leaders, inspirational women, Leadership, Leadership Books, Summer readsComment

Simply The Best: Fairygodboss CEO On Why Company Rankings For Women Matter

You wouldn’t eat at a restaurant with a bad Yelp review, stay in a hotel that got 1 out of 5 stars (or no stars at all) or run out to see a movie that Rotten Tomatoes gave a low rating. So why would you work for a company that doesn’t make it to the annual best companies for women lists?

Ambition / Intention, Change Leadership, Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tips, ParityMichele WeldonJune 7, 2019business, Change, Leadership, women in the workplace, women leadersComment

Big Little Lies: How To Survive A Workplace Where Untruths Are Common

Straight answers. Truth. Not fibs. It’s what you want from a leader in the workplace, or anywhere.

Ambition / Intention, Changing the Workplace, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonMay 24, 2019Authentic Leadership, business, confidence, Honesty, LeadershipComment

Prep Trap: 4 Tips On Declaring You're Ready Now

I don’t know any woman in business who fakes it until she makes it.

Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonApril 12, 2019confidence, female entrepreneurs, imposter syndrome, Michele Weldon, women in the workplaceComment

The Winner Is: Award Gender Gaps and Why Entering Contests Is Still Worth It

Most of us have been watching the red carpet and acceptance speeches at the Golden Globes, SAG awards and are awaiting the Oscars.

Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonJanuary 29, 2019business, Career, female entrepreneurs, gender gap, Michele WeldonComment

Persistence On Parity: CEO Creates A Culture of Gender Equity in Digital Agency

For the tough conversations in her 800-person company, Ansira, CEO Daina Middleton, says she established code language “to get real.”

Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonAugust 24, 2018Career, CEO, Change, Michele Weldon, women in the workplace, women leadersComment

Risky Business: Founder Entrepreneur Says Risk Breeds Success

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

Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonAugust 6, 2018entrepreneurs, Michele Weldon, Tools, women entrepreneurs, women leaders Comment

Feeling Good About Funding Women’s Health: CEO’s FemTech Goals

If Trish Costello, CEO of Portfolia since 2014, has her way, there will be no financial cliff where founders of tech startups catering to women and girls can fall to their financial ruin. Her goal is specific and clear: 100,000 women to invest in Portfolia funds in five years. The rec

Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonMay 21, 2018business, Investing, Michele Weldon, women in business, women leadersComment