50 Women Can Change the World®: Redefining Power Drives Equality

Transformative

Take The Lead®’s proven, ready-to-scale, program changes women’s perceptions of power, teaching skills and intention to advance all women to leadership equality. This program gets results in increasing women’s power and influence.

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Equitable

Each cohort and program facilitators have intentionally included at least 50% women of color. We also address the intersectionality of gender and racial oppression through healing conversations.

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Innovative

Shifting women’s relationship to power from oppressive “power OVER” to generative “power TO,” elevating intentionality and confidence, teaching Leadership Power Tools and self-branding, and implementing strategic plans.

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Feasible

With more than 30 Certified Leadership Ambassadors, our program has been tested, we have the proof it works and capability to scale quickly to 20 cohorts of emerging leaders in key industries over the next 5 years.

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Women gain power and influence as they claim power, attain decision-making positions, control resources, and shape policies.

Project Overview

Take The Lead®’s proven, ready-to-scale, 50 Women Can Change the World® (#50WomenCan) program helps women know their value and power. They learn skills and intention to “lead like women” who advance women, accelerating gender and racial equality by:

Shifting women’s relationship with power from oppressive “power OVER” to generative “power TO”
Elevating intentionality and confidence with Leadership Power Tools, turning implicit bias effects into superpowers, and developing strategic plans
Addressing intersectionality of gender and racial oppression through healing conversations
Building 20 supportive cohorts – technology, finance, media and entertainment, human resources, public service, and entrepreneurship – leveraging their influence for leadership parity in their sectors
Connecting those 1,000 women to 10,000 who elevate their vision, voice, and visibility through continued engagement
Activating 10,000,000 women with messages to eliminate systemic inequity

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Black Women's Collective

Lift Women Up

"Through this program I was able to meet a short term goal of growing my team in order to tell some of the most important stories of our current history."

- Jareen Imam

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“Through this program I learned that my voice was my strength... And I now have a "board room" of women I can reach out too and will have them for the rest of my life.”

- Carla Murphy

Take The Lead 2020 Funders Briefing

“We were excited to invest in Take The Lead when we heard about 50 Women Can Change the World Journalism cohort ...we’d been hearing about how transformative the experience had been not only for their roles in the industry and their leadership and pay raises and changes in title but how they saw themselves as people.”

- Lea Trusty, Democracy Fund

Closing the leadership and wage gap in 6 key industry sectors.

“I took your workshop and articulated that my personal action plan goal was to become a vice president of my firm. I used the power tool “Use what you’ve got” to differentiate myself and demonstrate my value to the company as the cochair of the African American affinity group, and focused the group on bringing resources to the company. Today, I was informed I am being promoted to vice president.”

—Valerie Brown Grant, now SVP, Alliance Bernstein

Finance
Media & Entertainment
Public Office
Technology
Human Resources
Entrepreneurship

"If we want to change the world, we should invest in the women who already are."

— Melinda Gates

Take The Lead is ready to scale!
What we need now is funding.

“I know that Take The Lead powerfully emphasizes the necessity of women’s leadership across all areas from the board room to the C-suite to higher education. I have seen that our programs created individual and systemic change for both gender and racial justice.”

- Lily McNair, President, Tuskegee University
Take The Lead Board Member

Evaluation & Outcomes

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"Power unused is power useless."

— Gloria Feldt

Collaborating Organization Leaders

Gloria Feldt

**Take The Lead, Inc.**
Take The Lead’s cofounder and president served as president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, exponentially growing 2 affiliates and almost doubling the national organization. She is an acclaimed author, speaker, women’s advocate, and professor at Arizona State University. Her book, *No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power* informs Take The Lead programs that have trained 5,000 women and reached 1,500,000 through events. Her forthcoming book outlines 9 “Intentioning” Tools to achieve gender parity and change unjust systems. Awards include: Vanity Fair Top 200 Women Leaders and Diversity Alliance’s 2020 Diversity First Leadership Award.

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Felicia Davis

Black Women’s Collective

CEO and Founder of the Black Women’s Collective, Felicia brings experience coaching, mentoring, and training women – especially Black women (15 years), as an HR leader (20 years), #50WomenCan program facilitator (5 years), and recipient of Racial Healing certification. Recognized as a Woman of Excellence by the National Council of Negro Women, her proprietary Brand Your Brilliance process helps women develop more effective leadership brands, compelling communication skills, and confidence to lead with integrity. A graduate and member of The Black Board of Director’s Project, she received the 2020 Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award.

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Nancy O’Reilly, Psy.D.

**Women Connect4Good, Inc.**
A licensed psychologist, international philanthropist, author, educator, and trailblazer for women’s empowerment, Nancy founded Women Connect4Good, Inc., a 501(c)3 foundation, to support women and girls, serves on several boards including as chairwoman for Take The Lead and on the governor-appointed Missouri Committee of Psychologists. She has written four books, including *In This Together: How Successful Women Support Each Other in Business and Life [3]*. Her numerous awards include a Women Making History Award in 2020 from the National Women’s History Museum [4]. She is most recently featured in a documentary airing on PBS that champions women’s equality and advancement.

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