Leading Together: Committing to Leadership Equity, Health Advocacy, Access and Treatment for Women

It was the perfect combination of celebration and commitment—saluting 10 years of exceptional work with tangible outcomes for Take The Lead plus a roadmap for connecting purposefully to change the present for a gender and racially equitable future.

“Together We Lead” was the theme of the fifth annual Power Up Concert & Conference on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C. with men and women from across the country convening to salute accomplishments spearheaded by Take The Lead co-founder and president Gloria Feldt.

PowerUp ConferenceMichele WeldonSeptember 6, 2024healthcare, Heart Health, Public Health, womens movementComment

Strength Finder: How Founder, CEO Turned Illness Into Powerful Global Effort To Impact Lives

Donna Cryer’s mother wanted a white picket fence surrounding an idyllic space for her children to grow up in Waterbury, Conn.

“We did indeed have a white picket fence,” says Cryer, founder, president and CEO of the Global Liver Institute, whose parents moved to Connecticut during the late 1960s when they were recruited as African American schoolteachers for local public schools.

No Vax? Coping With Unvaxxed Colleagues, Clients and Customers

You are double vaxxed, boosted and spatially safe, yet you work regularly with colleagues, clients and customers who are not.

Never mind the masking issue, you are in contact in-person—and remotely—with people who are opposed to treating COVID-19 the same way you do and it is causing disruption, discontent and malaise in the workplace.

How as a leader do you maintain professional distance and your own safety as well as a safe and fair workplace culture?

Dads In Lockdown: Research Shows Unequal Share Of Parenting

As Father’s Day approaches it is noteworthy that more fathers in the U.S. and globally are working from home and sharing in childcare duties, even homeschooling. More of them are sharing Zoom screens on business calls with their children at home in the background.

Yet an abundance of new research shows mothers are not faring as well as fathers in the lockdown days of COVID-19.

A May report from the National Women’s Law Center shows “women — and particularly women of color — hold the majority of health care, child care and other jobs now deemed both essential and dangerous amid a pandemic,” according to Benefits Pro.

Fertility Help, Better Balance: Natalist Founder Sets Goals

Growing up in Cleveland, Halle Tecco heard her mother tell of the struggles and heartbreak of her 10 miscarriages and a stillbirth, before adopting her and her brother, and then giving birth to her sister when Halle was 16. Her own struggles with infertility led Tecco to found Natalist, a science-backed company launched recently with $5 million in capital aimed at assisting consumers with their own reproductive health.

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