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Know Your History: Kendrick Lamar Makes Legacy During Black History Month
Issue 2838 — February 10, 2025 It’s heresy, I know, but you don’t normally find me watching the Super Bowl. However, dinner at a friend’s home during the annual Big Game was served around a television with the game on. It turns out I am glad. Sorry, Kansas City Chiefs. Congratulations, Philadelphia Eagles. But thanks…
Read MoreTop Priority: 5 Key Pledges to Take The Lead
Issue 271 — September 2, 2024 Who’s still glowing from the energy of Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert and Conference? I am for sure! There were so many extraordinary moments. We saw a “genre bending” concert on August 25th at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts featuring pianist Marina Arsenijevic, indy…
Read MorePower To Our Women Fireside Chat Featuring Gloria Feldt
Click here to read more about Gloria’s fireside chat on Power to Our Women Conversations, or listen below.
Read More2X Employee Retention? Yes, Please. (PowerUp for a Solution!)
Issue 269 — August 11, 2024
Let’s not overstate. One conference can’t solve all problems. But research backs up the value of providing leadership development like what participants get at Take The Lead’s PowerUp Concert and Conference.
Read MoreTAKE THE LEAD Announces 10th Anniversary Leadership Parity Conference Celebrating Barrier-Breakers in Health, Education, Entertainment, Finance and Politics on Women’s Equality Day
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 6, 2024) — TAKE THE LEAD®, the national non-profit dedicated to achieving gender parity in leadership by 2025, has announced keynote panels, conference honorees and concert performers for the 5th edition of their leadership parity summit. “PowerUp: Together We Lead” takes place both virtually and in person in Washington D.C. on Sunday, August 25 and Monday, August 26, timed with Women’s Equality Day. It also celebrates the organization’s 10th anniversary.
Read MoreTwo Girls, A Little Boat, And 3 Big Lessons About Power
Issue 260— May 27, 2024
The weather app said rain would start at 3pm. I met Camille Jalandoni and Justyna Kedra, founders of WeRule for a walk in Central Park at 12:30 thinking I’d be home well before the downpour. I’m a big fan of walking meetings, and we had a purpose for this one: to talk about partnering to make the new WeRule mentoring app available to Take The Lead participants.
Read MoreTo Gloria Steinem With Love On Her 90th Birthday
Dearest Gloria Marie,
Words are inadequate so here are a few photos of meaningful times, places, and causes that brought us together. I’m ever grateful for your vision, courage, and leadership to make the world a more just place, and personally for your friendship, your kindness, your boundless compassion.
Read MoreHuge Thank You to Program Partners for Parity!
We’re soooo grateful to these organizations for supporting the Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference, to be held Saturday, August 26 in person at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA in Los Angeles and streaming everywhere.
Got your ticket already? Yay! Want to see the agenda and buy your tickets? Go here.
Read MoreHow About We Solve a Problem Instead of Admiring It? Building a Solution-Focused Mindset
Issue 232 — June 19, 2023
I often quote Mellody Hobson, President and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, in my speeches and training. She said, “We have admired the problem long enough.”
I don’t remember what she was referring to but to me this wry comment applies to every injustice people face, every complaint we may have even if it is fully warranted. We can spout data about how awful this is and how discriminatory that is, but until we are willing to roll up our sleeves and take action, we’re just “admiring the problem” and failing to get to the solutions.
Read More“Failure is a Stepping Stone” and 7 More Fave Quotes from Forbes 30/50
Issue 223— March 13, 2023
Forbes 30/50 Summit chair and founder of Know Your Value Mika Brzezinski must have said “Failure is a stepping stone” half a dozen times during the Forbes 30/50 Summit held at the beachfront Saadiyat Rotana Resort in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, March 7–10.
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