Celebrate 8: Take The Lead’s Legacy of Action and Solutions Toward Equity Leads to 2022 Power Up Conference
Gloria Feldt (center) at a recent Intentioning book event with Felicia Davis (left) and Alicia Ontiveros (right) will all be on the agenda at the 2022 Power Up Conference celebrating eight years of Take The Lead and Feldt’s 80th birthday.
“Let’s all raise our voices together for women’s leadership parity. There’s a lot of power in speaking up together. It’s time.”
Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead with co-founder Amy Litzenberger, made that bold declaration eight years ago at the launch of Take The Lead. This was a 2014 event for participants in person at Arizona State University, and also live streaming to 42 countries and an aggregate audience of one million.
Watch more in Take The Lead on the Launch Event
Feldt has been true to her word ever since. With a rich legacy of accomplishments over the past eight years, Feldt is again leading the international live and virtual 2022 Power Up Concert and Conference: The Big RE: REthink, REwire, REcreate, August 25-26. This is a celebration of eight years of accomplishments staying true to the mission, and also a celebration of Feldt’s 80th birthday, fittingly on Womens Equality Day.
“With a rich legacy of accomplishments over the past eight years, @GloriaFeldt is again leading the international live and virtual 2022 #PowerUpConcert and Conference: The Big RE: REthink, REwire, REcreate, August 25-26. #TheBigRe”
The robust schedule reflects the mission of Take The Lead that “prepares, develops, inspires, and propels all women of all diversities and intersectionalities to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025.”
Read more about the concert and conference agenda here
Over the past eight years, Take The Lead has reached an estimated 1.5 million men and women through original content across digital platforms, programs, trainings, workshops, conferences, coaching and mentorship. With social media followings that include 51,000 on Twitter, 15,000 on LinkedIn, 13,000 on Facebook, nearly 4,000 and Instagram and more than 18,000 newsletter subscribers, Take The Lead’s reach has grown and expanded exponentially since its inception.
“In the past eight years, @Takeleadwomen has reached an estimated 1.5 million men and women through original content across digital platforms, programs, trainings, workshops, conferences and mentorship. #genderparity”
To meet the needs of participants and to honor the mission of diversity, equity and inclusion, Take The Lead has recently expanded its Board of Directors to include six new members and the new board chair, Dr. Lily McNair, former president of Tuskegee University.
Read more in Take The Lead on Dr. Lily McNair
Newly added to the 17-member Take The Lead board of directors are Heather Mattison, Chief of Staff, People Team at Gusto, an all-in-one HR and payroll management platform; Tina Pangle, VP, Digital Transformation & Global COE at Insight, a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of Digital innovation, cloud, data center transformation, connected workforce, and supply chain optimization solutions and services; Katica Roy, Founder of Pipeline Equity, an award-winning SaaS company that leverages artificial intelligence to identify and drive economic gains through gender equity; Maggie Sanchez, a marketing and technology leader, angel investor, and equity and inclusion advisor for global companies; Michelle Tran, Head of Enterprise Sales, SVP at Vestwell, a cloud-based 401(k) management platform, and Founder of NYC Fintech Women, which connects, empowers and promotes women in FinTech; and Laura Vega, Associate General Counsel and Director at Insight.
Board members continuing their service include Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, Corporate Board Director, Environmental advocate; Lauren Embrey, President and CEO, Embrey Family Foundation; Stacey Engle, Founder, Authority Lab; Denise Lee, Founder and CEO, Alala; Loretta McCarthy (secretary and treasurer), Managing Director, Golden Seeds; Nancy O’Reilly PhD (immediate past chair), Founder and president Women Connect 4 Good Foundation; Kathy Robb, Robb Water Partners; and Leon Silver, Partner, Attorney, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP.
Read about Take The Lead accomplishments at five years
Over the past eight years, Take The Lead has successfully delivered trainings in the 9 Leadership Power Tools To Advance Your Career, as well as Women’s Leadership & DEI training and career and executive coaching. The 50 Women Can Change The World leadership trainings have served hundreds of participants in cohorts in Healthcare, Law, Journalism, Nonprofit, Finance and Media and Entertainment sectors.
“Over the past eight years, @Takeleadwomen has successfully delivered trainings in the 9 Leadership Power Tools To Advance Your Career, as well as Women’s Leadership & DEI training and career and executive coaching. #leadershiptraining”
Since the beginning, Take The Lead has focused on “changing the narrative from problems to solutions, from talk to do, from learning to strategic leadership action plan.” With a “unique intersectional curriculum that cracks the code holding women back, Take The Lead offerings help redefine and embrace power as well as lead change to break through internal and external barriers, turn implicit bias effects into superpowers and elevate intention. Take The Lead excels in building cohorts of support systems and peer mentors.”
Read about Take The Lead accomplishments in 2021
Content across digital media platforms has included more than 150 videos on Take The Lead’s youtube channel with Virtual Happy Hours featuring conversations with author Minda Harts; Dr. Uche Blackstock and entrepreneur, veteran journalist and documentarian Soledad O’Brien and author Tiffany Dufu.
“@Takeleadwomen ‘s Youtube channel includes #VirtualHappyHours featuring conversations with author @MindaHarts; @Uche_blackstock and #entrepreneur, veteran journalist and documentarian @Soledadobrien and author @Tdufu. ”
This live streaming has featured conversations with leaders such as Rupa Dash, founder of World Women Fund and many more. More than 50 podcasts since 2019 have included Feldt interviewing leaders and change makers in the Power To You as well as Take The Lead series.
Take The Lead Academy Masterclass has highlighted Victoria Pychon, co-founder of She Negotiates; Dr. Mitzi Krockover, MD, CEO of Women Centered and Dr. Randee Sanders, founder and CEO of RL Sanders & Associates, and others.
The Power To Change stories kicked off in July 2020 and since then have featured 72 women across the globe and across disciplines and fields claiming their power to change an aspect of their lives, work, community, and broader world.
“The #PowerToChange stories on @Takeleadwomen ‘s #MovementBlog have featured 72 women across the globe and across disciplines and fields claiming their power to change an aspect of their lives, work, community, and broader world. ”
Each year over the past eight, events such as the 2017 Powertopia Symposium in 185 cities in more than 40 countries, 2018 Take The Lead Day, 2020 Power Up Conference, and the widely successful Women’s Equality Day Concert in 2021 with Marina Arsenijevic, all have attracted new participants as well as loyal members of the Take The Lead community.
Read more in Take The Lead on the 2022 PowerUp Concert
At the Power Up Conference this year, Take The Lead is coming full circle since its launch, awarding Carla Harris, senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley, author, leader and singer, its Leading Woman Award. Harris delivered a keynote at the 2014 launch.
“At the #PowerUpConference this year, @Takeleadwomen is coming full circle since its launch, awarding @Carlaannharris, senior client advisor at @MorganStanley, author, leader and singer, its #LeadingWomanAward. ”
Read more in Take The Lead on Carla Harris here.
Other awards include the Leading Man Award going to Vada Manger; the Leading Company Award offered to Insight; Leading Philanthropy Award to Helios Education Foundation and the Wear The Shirt Award to Michael Stars.
Read more about Vada Manager in Take The Lead here.
At the 2014 Take The Lead launch, iconic feminist leader Gloria Steinem shared a conversation with Feldt and declared, “I can only imagine what huge impact Take The Lead is going to have.”
“At the 2014 @Takeleadwomen launch, iconic feminist leader @GloriaSteinem shared a conversation with @GloriaFeldt and declared, “I can only imagine what huge impact @Takeleadwomen is going to have.” #genderparity #TheBigRe”
Read more in Take The Lead on Michael Stars and Suzanne Lerner
The past eight years have exceeded expectations as Take The Lead continues its commitment to the mission of gender parity and equity in leadership across all sectors.
“The past eight years have exceeded expectations as @Takeleadwomen continues its commitment to the mission of #genderparity and equity in #leadership across all sectors. ”
Offering a keynote at the Take The Lead 2014 launch was then-COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg who paid tribute to Feldt, saying, “Gloria has been a combination of practical and visionary, and those two things are so hard to find together. She has inspired me and so many others.”
Join Take The Lead August 25-26 at the Power Up Concert & Conference to celebrate eight years of solutions-based programs and content and also the 80th birthday of its co-founder, Gloria Feldt. Click here to register.
