I’m Doing It: 6 New Speeches for Women’s History Month March 2013
Happy New Year! Time to pull out that spanking new calendar and start filling in 2013’s highlights.
Women’s History Month—March—is always a big highlight for me. I blog almost every day. Or when I’m smart, I recruit fabulous guest posters, like Liz O’Donnell and Deborah Siegel.
Why? Let’s face it—history has largely been defined through the male lens, recorded by male pens, with men as the main protagonists, and women, if noticed at all, in supporting roles. As the saying goes, you can’t be what you can’t see.
The converse—you can aspire to that which you can imagine—is why I created six new speeches for Women’s History Month, March 2013. I had fun cooking up these new ideas to make women’s history interesting, relevant, and inspiring to corporate, professional, civic, college, and nonprofit groups of all kinds:
—“The Power of Sheroes: Why Women Want Role Models, Mentors, and Sponsors, and How to Get Them”
INTENTIONING
Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women
Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) GoodThe new book from Gloria Feldt about the future, taking the leadership lessons learned from this disruption and creating a better world for all through the power of intention.
—“Remember the Ladies: 3 Surprising Mistakes of the Women’s Movement and the Leadership Lessons They Can Teach Us”
—“On the Waves: Celebrating Top 10 Highlights of Women’s Advancement – and Envisioning the Journey Still Ahead”
—“Is This the End of Men or the Beginning of Women?”
—“What Will It Take for Women to Reach Parity in Leadership?”
—“Seriously, Henry Higgins? Must a Woman Be More Like a Man to Succeed?”
All my presentations are customized to address the group’s goals, and they can be delivered as keynotes or accompanied by a 9 Ways Leadership Power Tool Workshop.
Last fall, I taught my Arizona Sate University course “Women, Power, and Leadership” online for the first time. I had a chance to learn webinar skills. If you are interested in exploring a digital version of one of these speeches, we can talk about that option.
We’ll know we’ve reached gender parity when women’s visibility in the telling of history and the making of it, will be, well, just normal. With these six new Women’s History Month speeches, I aim to help make that happen. My personal goal is to fill up every day in March with a speech, workshop, webinar, op ed, or other action that tells women’s stories and inspires new ones, and so to share the fascinating history lessons we can learn from famous women, and many more you never heard of.
Contact me to request a speech or workshop by me. But whomever you choose for your program, please honor the women in your life and workplace by recognizing Women’s History Month this March at your organization.
Sometimes people say nice things like this about my presentations:
“Gloria Feldt delivered a powerful and stirring presentation at NowStreet’s “Women Transforming Our Financial Markets Symposium”… Women receive the tools and motivation to assume the leadership positions that will profoundly impact our economy and society.”
—Dara Albright, founder, NowStreet“I was inspired by your presentation at the Massachusetts Conference for Women. The entire conference wowed me, but your session spoke to me more deeply than any other.” —Caroline O’Shea, Assistant Director of Employer Relations, Hiatt Career Center, Brandeis University
“Empower your invaluable women knowledge workers by hiring Gloria Feldt to speak to your executives, Board members, and high-performing women to crack the diversity nut American business has so far found to be as elusive as the creation of cold fusion.” —Victoria Pynchon, principal-She Negotiates, attorney-mediator
“Your Presentation was excellent. I’ve already used ‘power to’ versus ‘power over’ as a mantra for other relationships and conversations. The response is like an awakening in the people who hear it.” —Jennifer Brunner, former Ohio Secretary of State
“The best lecturer we had in my four years on the lecture board.” —Nick Goldberg, former Co-President, Brown University Lecture Board
“[O]ne of the most inspirational women in America.”
—Cindi Leive, Editor-in-chief of Glamour Magazine“How moved I was!” —Eve Ensler
“Part den mother, part businesswoman, part Mae West.” —Texas Monthly
For more information, see www.GloriaFeldt.com.
Contact me to request a speech or workshop.
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.