Learn & Earn: Stay Tuned to Economics Trends, Forecasts to Succeed as Leaders and Entrepreneurs

You cannot escape the impact economics has on every aspect of your life. Understanding the rapid changes today in employment trends, tariffs, labor, opportunities, consumer needs, inflation, behavioral economics as well as the laws of supply and demand in the U.S. and globally will make you a better leader and wiser entrepreneur.

“Economics has something to say about whatever you are talking about,” says Professor Kim Holder, managing director of the Center for Economics Education at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Finance/Money, Gender ParityMichele WeldonFebruary 21, 2025Economics, Gender Parity, Womens Leadership, EquityComment

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.

How to Unlock Potential: The Key to Thriving Business Success

You are incredibly, beautifully diverse.

Think about it. A friend once observed to me that we are all made up of many tribes, each of which brings a piece of our identity to life.

How many tribes do you belong to? What characteristics of yourself do you identify with?

I didn’t always appreciate the richness of this concept, but over time, I’ve come to love and embrace the reality of the multifaceted elements that form the whole of who I am.

Change LeadershipGloria FeldtFebruary 3, 2025Leadership, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, DEIComment

The “D” Word: How To Lead So Everyone Can Thrive In DEI-Restricted Workplace

A movement by any other name would be just as crucial.

New presidential assertions claim diversity is immoral and has led to reverse discrimination, so the D word for diversity is banned.

The recent White House executive order calling for the elimination of Diversity Equity and Inclusion efforts, programs and initiatives in federal agencies, as well as foundations, businesses, the U.S. Airforce, corporations, universities, legal and medical associations, non-profits and more organizations and companies across industries has prompted different largescale responses.

Changing the Workplace, ParityMichele WeldonJanuary 31, 2025DEI, diversity, Equity, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Inclusion, Gender EquityComment

Close Achievement Gap: Helios Vice Chair On Urgency of Education Access

“Each generation wants their kids to have it better than they did,” says Jane LaRocca Roig, vice chair of the board of directors of Helios Education Foundation that has invested more than $300 million in educational initiatives and scholarships since 2004.

Myth Busting: Use Your Power To Innovate and Increase Workplace Equity

You must pull up the next person in line.

Katica Roy, gender economist and CEO of Pipeline Equity, is the daughter and sister of refugees. Her family came to America from Hungary and rebuilt their lives here because of help they received.

Career success, Event, Take The Lead Events, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonSeptember 2, 2022DEI, Power Up Conference, The Big Re, EquityComment

What if Your Big RE Is to be a Waymaker?

If you had the courage to use your Power TO do what is your highest intention and all you deserve to be in the world, what would you do, Friend?

Tara Jaye Frank, a featured keynote speaker for Take The Lead’s hybrid Power Up Big RE Concert and Conference on August 26 believes every leader in every seat has the power to become a Waymaker to create sustainable change and equity for women.

Take The Lead EventsFelicia DavisAugust 16, 2022The Big Re, PowerTo, EquityComment

Go For Gold: Team USA Women Aim For Equity Wins At Tokyo Olympics

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics kicking off this month are notable not just for what is missing—the crowds in the stands, many athletes who tested positive for COVID and Sha’Carri Richardson due to a positive marijuana test—but what gains have been achieved for competitors identifying as female.

Aiming For Equal: CEO, Founder Works For Equity in Sustainability

Perhaps the seed for Lisa Ann Pinkerton’s career as founder and chair of Women In Cleantech & Sustainability has something to do with the fact that she was born in Hyden, Kentucky near the Daniel Boone National Forest.

North Star: Soledad O’Brien On Listening, Point of View, Stories, Fairness and Values

“As an organization and an individual, you have to stick to your North Star,” Soledad O’Brien, founder and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, told a virtual convening of two cohorts of Take The Lead’s 50 Women in Journalism Can Change the World.

“The story of one’s arc of one’s life is to figure out what your values are,” says O’Brien, award-winning journalist, speaker, author and philanthropist who anchors and produces the Hearst Television political magazine program, “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien.”

Show Us All: Why Media Visuals Need To Reflect BIPOC Women

Simone Biles is on the new August cover of Vogue. Viola Davis is on the August cover of Vanity Fair. It’s a good month for visual representation of strong BIPOC women leaders in mainstream media. But it’s been a long time coming. And it’s not nearly enough.

Even as the Biles’ photo shoot was criticized for how the lighting reflected the athlete’s skin tone as photographed by Annie Liebowitz, the trend of celebrating a wider range of women leaders is positive. Davis’ cover story was the first ever by a Black photographer, Dario Calmese.

Nonprofits So White: New Report on Lack of Inclusion Offers Strategies

Nonprofits in this country are failing on their diversity and inclusion efforts, even as their missions address social justice and fairness issues, according to a new report of more than 5,000 workers in nonprofits.

“The sad — but unsurprising — truth is that people of color and whites have a different set of experiences in nonprofit organizations. This gap in how professionals experience their workplaces — whether they receive mentorship, are granted promotions, or face microaggressions — is partially reflected in what we call the ‘white advantage,’” write Frances Kunreuther and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, Co-Directors of the Building Movement Project, and authors of the report, Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap.

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