🎁 Happy Holidays! THANKS for Your Gift of Impact!

We are so grateful for you, donors and supporters of women’s equality and leadership parity. We wish you a Happy Holiday, during this season when Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa all spread their light and hope together. Because of you, Take The Lead has accomplished so much this year. Your commitment to our shared mission of…

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5 Paradoxes of Effective Leadership

Issue 226— April 17, 2023

I’m having a blast leading the new mastermind series, “Intentioning: Transform Your Dreams to Reality with the Power of Intention” live online. I love the real-time interaction, yet busy women from all over the world can participate and have the flexibility to catch up asynchronously while being part of a supportive community of women.

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19 #goodthingsabout2020

Issue 155 — December 28, 2020

You’d think this year is an animate being one could punch or despise or dress down. Every other headline on those end-of-year emails clogging our inboxes rails against poor old 2020. Worst year ever, leave it in the rearview mirror, kick it to the curb, and so on.

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You Have the Power to Double Your Impact to Help Women Today

Issue 151 — November 29, 2020

Do you sometimes feel powerless in these challenging days?

Let me assure you of this: you have the power to help women recover from the pandemic’s effects on their lives and livelihoods when you make a contribution to Take The Lead.

And — great news — your contribution will be matched by our amazing board members, led by chair Dr. Nancy O’Reilly.

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What Does Your Gratitude Look Like and Taste Like in 2020?

Issue 150 — November 23, 2020

Happy Pre-Thanksgiving. I hope you are well and that however you plan to spend the holiday will be enjoyable.

Whatever you have planned, we can all breathe a big sigh and agree on this: It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? One we can’t even describe yet because it’s not over and every day brings new surprises. But there are a few things we know for sure.

This pandemic has made us more creative.

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9 ways to Take The Lead even in a terrible year

2020 came dancing in with such hope.

2020 was going to be Take The Lead’s year to scale up after seven years of building our credibility, developing our unique methodology of accelerating women’s advancement in leadership, and proving that it works. We’d earned the opportunity to grow exponentially. We had an amazing year of programming planned. Symbolically, 2020 being the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote after seven decades of struggle, seemed like the perfect time.

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Lead with your vote

Issue 147 — November 2, 2020

The leaves are starting to turn in New York’s Central Park. Daylight savings time has given us back the hour it stole last spring. The pandemic rages on.

And a momentous election is taking place. The world is watching. Americans have cast more early votes than any time in history. You can feel the anxiety in the air.

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