Changing the Game: Podcast Episode with Gloria Feldt
The need for gender equality in leadership positions and the positive impact can have on society and the economy. Gloria Feldt has dedicated her life’s work to empowering women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors. She co-founded the organization “Take the Lead,” providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership.
Gloria shares details about the upcoming Women’s Equality Day conference and concert on August 24 and 26, which will honor the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition and highlight the achievements of women who have gone through the Take the Lead program. She joins podcast host Cindy Glanzrock to discuss her background and journey as a women’s leadership expert, including her role as the former president and CEO Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The conversation covers the impact of COVID-19 on women in the workforce, the importance of embracing chaos and seizing opportunities, and Gloria’s five bestselling books.
GLORIA FELDT is the Cofounder and President of Take The Lead, a motivational speaker, a global expert in women’s leadership development and DEI for individuals and companies that want to build gender balance. She is a bestselling author of five books, most recently Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good. Honored as Forbes 50 Over 50, and Former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she is a frequent media commentator. Learn more at www.gloriafeldt.com and www.taketheleadwomen.com. Find her @GloriaFeldt on all social media.

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.
