Flash: There Are No Obstacles, Only Opportunities!

Issue 227 — May 1, 2023

Tell me. What’s the biggest obstacle you have faced on your path to leadership?

Here’s a secret for you.

*There are no obstacles. Only opportunities.*

How Design Thinking Can Help Women in Leadership

We all have an inner alchemist – that latent resource which holds the potential to radically transform us.

No one knows this better than Elise Roy. She turned her lifelong disability into her biggest gift. Her inner alchemist transformed her biggest limitation – being deaf – into something profoundly liberating by using her unique experiential perspective to reframe the world around her.

Can We Get An Amen? Struggle for More Women in Leadership in Religions

Billions of women across the globe reportedly follow the world’s major religions, yet leadership by women in these religions remains elusive and rare, in the United States in particular.

Change LeadershipMichele WeldonAugust 16, 2016Change, Community, parity, religion, women in leadershipComment

Why Women In Leadership Need to Add Parenthood to Resumes

I’m getting tired of the modern work-life conversation—including the “can women have it all?” question—because so much of it is self-defeating. That’s because it often starts from the premise that we either need to choose between being good parents and being good workers or else have to make strategic sacrifices in order to keep both sides of that equation properly “integrated” or in “balance.”

The Good, The Bad, The Global: Why We Need Women Leaders Worldwide

It’s not half yet, but it’s pretty darn close.

In its annual list of the World’s Greatest Leaders, Fortune magazine applauds the accomplishments of 23 women leaders in the coveted list of 50. That’s 46 percent women on this list of top leaders in government, business, activism and cultural influence. It’s the most women lauded this way ever (a 53 percent jump from last year’s list) when only 15 women made the notable group.

Diversity Simplified: Hire More Women in Leadership, Build Skills, Open Doors

It seems every major company around the globe– and many not so major companies– are taking notice of the inequities of their female employee rosters at all levels. All this talk of diversity and fairness, plus counting and publishing the percentages has not budged the numbers much for women in leadership. Women still fall far short in reaching the equity goal in most every arena from Hollywood production to tenure positions in academia.