Posts Tagged ‘Gloria Feldt’
How Do You Want to Change The World? What Does That Even Mean?
Issue 263 — June 24, 2024
How often do you hear words like “world changer,” “transformational,” or “changemaker?” How often do you use them to describe what you want to do or what you want to see happen?
Read MoreTwirl with Wonder Woman Lynda Carter at the Power Up Conference August 25–26 in DC
Issue 261— June 10, 2024
I have exciting news today. Have you been inspired as I have been by the Wonder Woman character?
Then you will be thrilled to know that Lynda Carter, whose iconic role as Wonder Woman exemplifies female strength and the use of power for good will receive the Leading Woman Award at Take The Lead’s annual Power Up Concert and Conference.
Read MoreEmpowering Women in Educational Leadership: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Duguid and Gloria Feldt
I had the opportunity to join Dr. Stephanie Duguid, owner of Do Good Leadership, on her podcast “Empowering Women in Educational Leadership” in a compelling discussion on women in leadership. We delved into the critical disparities between men and women in leadership roles with a mission dedicated to propelling women into their rightful leadership positions across all sectors by 2025.
Read MorePerplexed? Your Guide to Leadership at the Moral Crossroads
Issue 258 — May 6, 2024
Leadership lessons come from all kinds of places. Ever since I saw the 1986 movie “Crossroads” (not the later one with Britney Spears!), the metaphor of the crossroads has been in my head.
Read MoreCredit Due: Taylor Swift’s Advice About Power and Female Friendship
Issue 257 — April 22, 2024
I’m listening to Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, looking for inspiration for my more-or-less weekly column, “The Sum.” As in the sum of the week, what it means or what I learned about my favorite topics — women, power, and leadership — from whatever happened during the past week.
The last couple of weeks for me were all Beyonce all the time with the release and immediate race to the top of the C&W charts of her album Cowboy Carter. (How many versions of dancing to “Texas Hold ‘Em” have you seen on social media so far? I’m obsessed.)
Read MoreIntentioning Democracy: 5 Power Moves Only You Can Make
Issue 256 — April 8, 2024
Women who fear they are losing hard won rights and leadership opportunities often ask me what to do about a world in which they see their daughters having fewer voting rights, equal rights, and reproductive rights than they have had.
So when I spoke on April 3, 2024 to the San Antonio 100, I tackled that question by starting with lessons from our history, inspiration that comes from knowing their power, and challenged them to make five power moves to shape the future they want.
This is an adapted version of my speech, because perhaps you have the same fears.
Read MoreIf I Had A Hammer: What Can An Old Song Teach Today’s Leaders?
Issue 255 — March 25, 2024
I often share the metaphor of a hammer in leadership development training and speaking. That’s because power is like a hammer — you can build something with it or break something apart.
Power has no attributes of its own. It’s energy to be used at will, and it becomes whatever we do with it.
Read MoreThe #1 Action You Can Take Today To Make Life More #GenderFair
Issue 254 — March 3, 2024
How many clip art flowers and pink figures, celebratory Women’s History Month posts have you seen already this March — and we’re just a few days into it? Somehow it seems that many people have forgotten (if they ever knew) that women needed this special month, just as February was Black History Month for the same reason — because the narratives of history have not been written with our lens, and often our accomplishments have been downright ignored — or stolen.
Read MoreHow Are We Doing? 10 Years of Take The Lead
Issue 253 — February 26, 2024
The late bombastic New York mayor, Ed Koch, was famous for going around the city asking, “How am I doing?”
So as Take The Lead kicks off its 10th anniversary year, exactly 10 years after its first big public launch event at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium, we’re asking you, “How are we doing?”
Read MoreFrom Lucy to Leadership Part 2: Our Origins’ Central Question
Issue 252 — February 11, 2024
Last weekend, I went to see the movie I think should win Academy Awards in every category: Ava DuVernay’s rendition of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
After writing last week about the discovery of the 3.2 million year old hominid fossil Lucy in Hadar, Ethiopia 50 years ago by paleoanthropologist and founder of the Institute of Human Origins Donald Johanson, I wanted to explore further the question of why we humans are the way we are.
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