Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Bring Gloria to Speak at Your Women’s History Month Event
Bring Gloria Feldt to speak to your women’s ERG, DEI program, or the entire organization during Women’s History Month
Read MoreI Wish My Mother Had Taken Mackenzie Scott’s Advice
Issue 215 — December 19, 2022
My mother’s Wedgewood Bone china and Tiffany crystal wine, water, and cordial glasses glisten in the hutch I bought, where they could be not just stored but seen.
Mother had kept them packed away for many years. Why? Because she was “saving them for nice,” as she put it.
Read MoreHow Jacinda Ardern Took Down a Reporter’s Sexist Question and Showed Us Three Ways to Outsmart Implicit Bias
Issue 213— December 5, 2022
You really must watch this video to get your hackles up at the hapless reporter who asked New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern if she was meeting Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin because they are “similar in age.”
Read MoreIt’s Your Turn, Now What?
There is a fire that erupts when women REmember who they are AND know that it’s their time to step up and fully own their authority to lead.
Yes, I’m talking about you because you are that woman!
You are the woman that The Big RE Conference was created for because we know that on the other side of spending two days immersed in the power-packed agenda we have in store for you, you are going to leave knowing what it takes to…
Read MoreThe #1 Leadership Strategy for Your Company in Times of Controversy (Read #RoevWade)
Issue 203 — June 27, 2022
The United States Supreme Court ignited a political and social firestorm by overturning Roe v. Wade on June 24, the last day of its 2022 session.
Read MoreTo Stop Uvaldes and Buffalos, Start by Changing the Narrative of Power
Issue 200- May 30, 2022
I need to write about power this week.
I’ve spent the last decade teaching women the difference between thinking of oppressive power OVER and generative, creative, and innovative power TO so that we can get over our culturally learned ambivalence about power that is a key barrier to women’s advancement.
Buffalo: Leaders Must Rise to The Challenge
Issue 199 — May 23, 2022
First, say their names: Margus D. Morrison, 52; Andre Mackneil, 53; Aaron Salter, 55; Geraldine Talley, 62; Celestine Chaney, 65; Heyward Patterson, 67; Katherine Massey, 72; Pearl Young, 77; and Ruth Whitfield 86. On behalf of all of us at Take The Lead, we mourn the loss of their lives and stand in solidarity with their loved ones.
Read MoreThe Joy and the Irony of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Issue 196 — April 11, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Her name is already embedded in the annals of history as the first Black woman confirmed to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.
After 232 years and 115 previous sitting justices, Judge Brown Jackson will become Justice Brown Jackson when she is sworn in at the end of the Court’s current term.
Read More“Keep calm and carry on?” I don’t think so. Be bold and carry out!
Issue 195— March 28, 2022
The first time I gave a speech where I said “Be bold and carry out!” was to an audience of probably 1000 or so at the annual conference of WICT, Women In Cable Telecommunications. Smart, ambitious, accomplished women. And yet they still held no more than 20% of the top leadership positions in their industry.
Read More“Bravery Has no Gender” Kira Rudik and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Lead Like a Woman in the Face of the Unthinkable
Issue 192 - March 8, 2022
My heart clutched as I watched Stephanie Ruhle interview Ukrainian Member of Parliament Kira Rudik on “The 11th Hour.”
I urge you to watch it a few times, not to become fearful but to observe how she speaks powerfully AND with empathy, humanity, and courage. These characteristics are what I mean when I say she leads like a woman.
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