Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Take The Lead is 11 years old this week on February 19. Eleven years ago, Gloria Feldt and Amy Litzenberger co-founded the organization with the bold mission of society reaching leadership gender parity across all sectors by 2025—this year.

For the past 11 years, Take The Lead has been working towards achieving gender and race equity in leadership across all sectors and industries. In that time, Take The Lead has been making enormous impact affecting hundreds of thousands of women in their careers and lives.

On Banning Ideas, Finding Your Tribe and Winning the Prize

Picture this: It is 1972. I am a student in a relatively progressive suburban public school system, one in which the chorus sang excerpts from “Hair,” (I still know all the words to “Age of Aquarius”), but Home Economics was only for girls and Wood Shop for boys.

Along comes a new magazine: Ms. It challenges the patriarchy and traditional roles. It shakes up the status quo. It does not conform to “expectations.”

Inspire: Take The Lead...Take The LeadFebruary 13, 2025Leadership, Gender Parity, Equality, Anniversary, Womens Equality, Ms. MagazineComment

How Are We Doing? 10 Years of Take The Lead

Issue 253 — February 26, 2024

The late bombastic New York mayor, Ed Koch, was famous for going around the city asking, “How am I doing?”

So as Take The Lead kicks off its 10th anniversary year, exactly 10 years after its first big public launch event at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium, we’re asking you, “How are we doing?”

The SumGloria FeldtFebruary 27, 2024Anniversary, gender parity, Women Leaders, Take The Lead EventsComment

The Sum: Thank You Edition

Issue 102— July 29, 2019 I started last week heavy with worries. About a long-planned program that once again would have to be postponed for lack of full sponsorship. A new website, that had taken three times as long and cost much more than planned, was about to be released with a number of issues still unresolved.

Mentors and Sponsors, EventGloria FeldtJuly 29, 2019Gender Equality, Optimism, Podcast, Anniversary, PowerComment

5 lessons + 5 videos From 5 years of Take The Lead Advancing Leadership Parity by 2025

Issue 101 — July 14, 2019 This week, we mark the The 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing. People said that mission was impossible, and then it was done. Similarly, many people said it was impossible five years ago when Take The Lead began with the bold mission to achieve leadership g

Gloria FeldtJuly 15, 2019Anniversary, gender equality, Leadership, Videos, WomenComment

Five Years Going Strong: Looking Back On More Take The Lead Powerful Events

It’s been great so far. Five years in, and many more to go for Take The Lead. Each year the organization is aiming to reach gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025. Take The Lead is celebrating five years of events, programs and initiatives benefiting Take The Lead

Michele WeldonJuly 13, 2019Anniversary, Gloria Feldt, inspirational women, parity, women leadersComment

High Five: Take The Lead Celebrates 5 Years Of Mission-Led Action

A five-year anniversary is traditionally celebrated with gifts of wood, signifying strength, durability and a long-lasting bond. With that in mind, Take The Lead is celebrating the strength and durability of its mission of working toward reaching gender parity in leadership across all

Michele WeldonJune 26, 201950 Women Can Change The World, Anniversary, Gloria Feldt, Leadership, Silent AuctionComment

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