Posts Tagged ‘women’
Action: Your Antidote to Anxiety and Other Ills
Issue 2839 — February 24, 2025 Madeleine moved to a new state with her husband who got a great job there, but she felt the loss of grounding without family and friends and the stimulation of a large city. She approached me to volunteer for Take The Lead and we began to work on a…
Read MoreNew Year 🥳: Why 2025 Doesn’t Need a New You!
Issue 2834— January 6, 2024 As the calendar turns to a new year, the phrase “new year, new you” inevitably surfaces in advertising campaigns, social media posts, and sales on clothing and cosmetics. I’ll admit it: I have a negative reaction to that message. What’s wrong with the old you or me? Yes, the start…
Read MoreSubject: Today! You Can Lead the Change in 2025 (Let Me Explain)
This is my last message of 2024. And, yes, I am going to ask you to make a year-end gift to Take The Lead. But please read to the end, regardless, because there’s important information. A decade ago, after I found that despite being half the workforce, women held only 18% of senior leadership positions,…
Read MoreHow to Lead Like a Woman: Podcast Episode with Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt, published author, former President of Planned Parenthood, and CEO, and co-founder of Take the Lead, discusses with Mission Matters host Adam Torres how intentioning can help women lead a better world for all. Explore Take The Lead and Gloria’s new book, Mission Matters: Mission-Based Leaders Share Inspiring Stories on Power and Purpose (Women Leaders Edition, Volume 1).…
Read MoreThrough the Glass Ceiling: ̶ ̶5̶ ̶7 Strategies for Women
Issue 280 — November 18, 2024 How often do you click on an article because the title promises you’re going to learn something new or fix a problem you’ve been struggling with — and it turns out to do neither? I clicked on this one because the title grabbed me: “Through the Glass Ceiling: 5 Strategies for…
Read MoreLovely Ketanji: How She Turned Bias on Its Head and Made It Her Superpower
Issue 272 — September 9, 2024 I had eagerly awaited the publication of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One, since I learned that my talented friend Jamia Wilson, Vice President/Executive Editor at Penguin Random House, secured the plum of editing the book. Finally, the book launched on September 3, 2024, in Harlem’s…
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 MoreFrom Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans
Issue 251 — February 5, 2024
What is more fascinating to us humans than ourselves?
Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror? Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? Don’t we love seeing our names mentioned, or being tagged on Instagram? Come on, admit 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 MoreWhat are you #Intentioning for 2022?
Issue 188 — January 3, 2022
🎆Happy New Year! What are you Intentioning for your life and leadership this brave new year of 2022? 🎆What will this year mean for you? 🎆What first step will you take to go from ambition to Intention to done?
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