While it’s natural to feel overwhelmed in the wake of challenging societal or political events, staying in a problem-focused mindset limits our ability to act. It almost ensures we will fail to get our preferred outcomes.
In fact, I’ve learned from my decades of leading complex organizations and movements that are frequently under attack, the best antidote to fear and despair is to take action.
Read MoreSome may find the scary business of Halloween entertaining, but in real life, entrepreneurship and business shifts are also scary and risky-- and maybe not so fun. Here 10 top leaders share how the discomfort of risk is worth it all and why.
For Take The Lead’s 10-year anniversary, we are offering a treasure chest of insights and strategies from Take The Lead’s co-founder, allies, colleagues, friends and business associates in an array of fields and disciplines. With the latest research and data on how women value risk and how that impacts financial behaviors, we can hopefully and helpfully deliver a path to turning risk into reality.
Read MoreIssue 273 — September 16, 2024
“When the only tool you have is a hammer, you are likely to treat everything you see as a nail.”
The hammer is a metaphor I use to deconstruct and reconstruct the meaning of power, so that women will embrace their hammer of power with confidence, authenticity, and joy (yes, there’s that word “joy,” and I’ve been saying it in this phrase for years).
Read MoreI 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 MoreVery few people could pull this off, but Halle Barry sure did.
On the steps of the U.S. Capitol recently, the iconic actress shouted, “I’m in menopause, OK?” as part of her mission to seek federal funding for the 2023 Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women’s Health Act.
Read MoreIt’s Women’s History Month, a time of the year to acknowledge all that women have contributed to advance society and change the world.
Being familiar with your history is the first of the nine power tools created by Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, and part of the 9 Power Tools To Advance Your Career Online Course. It tops the list because it is the foundation of your life and career. “Know Your History: And you can create the future of your choice.”
Read More“Fear is an opportunity. Challenges are part of every life journey—in work, business, relationships, challenges are opportunities for growth,” says Homaira Kabir, founder of The Goodbye Perfect Project and a women’s leadership coach.
Read MoreIssue 214— December 12, 2022
“Say what you want out loud.”
That was the most quoted takeaway from the fireside chat interview between Morning Joe co-anchor and founder/partner with Forbes in the “Know Your Value” initiative, Mika Brzezinski and NBC’s Today Show cohost Hoda Kotb at the gathering of women chosen for Forbes 50 Over 50 2022 on December 8 at Forbes’ New York headquarters.
Read MoreIssue 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 MoreInternational Women’s Day is one day out of 365 to intentionally promote equity and fairness for all those on the globe identifying as female and to address the urgency of breaking deliberate and unconscious bias interrupting the path to gender equality. #BreakTheBias is the theme of IWD this year.
Read MoreBecause you are worth it. Because now is the time to rethink your life, your work, your purpose and take the action to shape the future you intention.
What the Great Reshuffle informed by the global pandemic has done to physical and remote workplace cultures, it has also done to you.
Read MoreIssue 174 — August 2, 2021
A colleague once gave me a poster bearing the caption, “When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember your goal was to drain the swamp.”
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