Thrive In Your Brilliance: Latina Leader, Author on How To Create Change

You may not have heard of the artichoke capital of the world—Castroville, California—but you definitely need to hear and know more about Denise Padín Collazo, a leader, advocate, director and author who coincidentally was born in Castroville.

Senior advisor for external affairs and director of institutional advancement at Faith In Action, (formerly PICO National Network), the nation’s largest faith-based, progressive organizing network, Collazo is an inspiring leadership expert and social justice advocate with the mission to encourage women of color to lead with vision and to thrive.

It’s Intentioning launch day! But why are there 9 Leadership Intentioning Tools?

Issue 1789— September 27, 2021

[Special Note: Today 9/28/21, my new book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good is formally birthed into the world. It is incumbent upon me as the author to ask you to buy it, review it, and share it on social media. And seriously, despite the cheesiness I feel making that ask, I do want this book to reach thousands or millions of women like you to help you embrace your power, elevate your intentions, and use the tips and tools in this book to get the lives and careers of your dreams. And what I know is that if you don’t ask, you don’t get. OK? OK! Thank you for your support.]

The Sum, Ambition / IntentionGloria FeldtSeptember 27, 2021Gloria Feldt, Intentioning, Leadership Books, 9 Power ToolsComment

Power As Hammer: Gloria Feldt’s Book Launch On Intention, Power & Why Luck Is Not What You Need

“As soon as we can talk about power as a hammer—you can break something with it or you can build something with it— we turn power into a generative, innovative, creative positive idea as the power to,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead at her live and virtual book launch for her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good.

The Sum, Women Career Success, Take The Lead LaunchMichele WeldonSeptember 24, 2021Intentioning, PowerTo, Purpose, gender parityComment

Are You Ready to Answer the Most Important Question for the Rest of Your Life?

Issue 178 — September 20, 2021

On a spectacular Arizona day in late January, 2020, a day when you can be lulled into thinking all’s right with the world, I was hiking with a friend. Then boom! I tripped on an unseen pebble, put my hand out to catch myself and knew immediately from the snap and the pain that I had broken my wrist. The first broken bone I’d ever had.

It’s never the mountains that trip you up. It’s the pebbles on the path.

The SumGloria FeldtSeptember 20, 2021Intentioning, Gloria Feldt, Covid-19, Leadership Power ToolsComment

Nothing Artificial About Her Leadership: Tech CEO on Leading With Empathy

Perhaps the writing was on the wall from the time she was a teen.

At 16, Heather H. Wilson was a national officer for Future Business Leaders of America as a student at James Wood High School in Winchester, Virginia, where her mother was a teacher. Her father was an art teacher at an elementary school in town.

“I was raised by two educators who set very high bars and standards,” says Wilson, CEO of CLARA Analytics, the leading provider of artificial intelligence technology in the commercial insurance industry.

More Than A Number: 7 Reasons Why Aging Is Your Secret Power

For too long, many women have bought into the lie that their relevance is proportional to their youth. The truth is, aging is a secret power.

Don’t believe me?

Take a look at 7 reasons why getting older is one of the best things that can happen to you.

“I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it’s not a personal illness,” actor Frances McDormand, recently said.

The Day After 20 Years After 9/11

Issue 177 — September 12, 2021

Like most everyone else yesterday on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I relived where I was that day when everything changed.

It was one of those spectacularly beautiful days when it seemed like all was right with the world. I had arrived a little after 8:30am to meet a business colleague for breakfast at Jean-Georges Nougatine, an upscale restaurant just off New York’s Columbus Circle in the Trump International Hotel and Tower. (Ironic? Perhaps.)

The SumGloria FeldtSeptember 12, 2021New York City, Community, Covid-19, IntentioningComment

Are You Reimagined? Facts For Navigating Your Post-Pandemic Work & Life

The more you know, the better you can do.

A spate of new research on shifts and changes in income, career, life outlook and more for women since the pandemic slowdown and ensuing Delta surge shows significant changes in who we are, and how we work in the world.

Career choices, Career success, Changing the Workplace, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonSeptember 10, 2021Covid-19, Workplace, Women LeadersComment

What’s Next? 4 L& D Leaders Advise How To Succeed Post-COVID and Beyond

Since the start of the pandemic, close to 2.3 million women have left the workforce. As we begin to recover from the pandemic, we wanted to take the time to celebrate and reflect on the contributions of notable women—the disruptors and the pioneers who have played a vital role in changing cultures and society.

But it’s important to realize that although women have come a long way in their rights, there is still a long way to go in terms of gender equality on corporate boards, in paychecks and more.

Your Action Plan: How To Tame Your Power Demons With Intentioning

We all have them and COVID-19 plus the ongoing pandemic of racial injustices complicated many people’s relationships with Power Demons, or the beliefs and ideas that rob them of the chance to become what and who they intend.

In her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good, Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, demonstrates an indisputable case with specific tools to maximize your intentioning and annihilate the Power Demons.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Gender ParityMichele WeldonSeptember 3, 2021Intentioning, Leadership Books, Gloria FeldtComment

Women Asking, Women Giving: 3 Ways to Maximize Impact of Philanthropy

Issue 176 — August 30, 2021

If you want to see me break out into a cold sweat instantly, just say the word “event.” Every time an organization with which I’m involved has an event, my first reaction is “No.”

Not surprisingly, since I’ve been leading nonprofit organizations almost my entire career, and thus on the asking end of the fundraising equation, that probability of cold sweat occurs with some frequency.

The SumGloria FeldtAugust 30, 2021Philanthropy, Take The Lead Event, Covid-19, Women's Equality DayComment

The Sound of Equity: Women’s Equality Day Concert Succeeds For Take The Lead

“We are determined to take this opportunity, to take the losses and turn them into gains,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead in the opening introductions of the Women’s Equality Day Concert featuring internationally renowned composer and pianist Marina Arsenijevic.

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