Issue 270 — August 19, 2024
Here are the top 13 takeaways you’ll get when you attend the Power Up Concert and Conference.
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Issue 269 — August 11, 2024
Let’s not overstate. One conference can’t solve all problems. But research backs up the value of providing leadership development like what participants get at Take The Lead’s PowerUp Concert and Conference.
👉🏽 According to Deel Global HR’s 2004 statistics, 94% of employees stay longer in companies that invest in their professional development, and providing a robust program can 2X retention.
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Celebrating this year’s Women’s Equality Day and 10 years of Take The Lead’s successes are reasons enough to attend the 4th annual Power Up Concert & Conference. But what you take away in knowledge, strategies, mentorship, networking, friendships, collaborators, inspiration and specific tools for your leadership path are priceless.
The “Together We Lead” event is spearheaded by Take The Lead Co-founder and President Gloria Feldt. The event includes the evening concert August 25 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts* in Washington, D.C., and the full-day conference August 26 at the National Housing Center. Icon Lynda Carter will receive the Leading Woman Award, along with other key awards, panels and workshops.
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Guest post by Melissa Miller Young, with much gratitude to Women Connect 4 Good Foundation and Dr. Nancy O’Reilly, presenting sponsor for Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert and Conference August 25 and 26.
Ten years ago, I joined 3,000 other women at Gammage Hall on the Arizona State University campus. Together, we listened to Sheryl Sandberg, Karen Finney, Erica Gonzalez, Pat Mitchell, Gloria Feldt, Carla Harris, and other powerful speakers talk about the importance of advancing more women into leadership.
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Issue 266 — July 15, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 11, 2024) — Iconic actor and singer-songwriter Lynda Carter will be honored with the 2024 Leading Woman Award at the 5th Annual Take The Lead PowerUp Conference in Washington D.C. on Sunday, August 25 and Monday, August 26.
Take The Lead’s “Together We Lead” Conference on Monday, August 26 at the National Housing Center, follows the PowerUp Concert Sunday, August 25 at The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, with virtual options for both events.
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Issue 265 — July 8, 2024
If Elizabeth Packard were alive today, she would be on our Panel “Together We Lead for Health” at Take The Lead’s Power Up Conference and Concert this August 25th evening and 26th all day, in Washington DC and accessible virtually. The theme is “Together We Lead.”
Elizabeth Packard’s life story, while appalling, is inspiring. And it’s a reminder of why Women’s Equality Day on August 26, 2024 will be the most consequential acknowledgment of that date so far in the 21st century.
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“We need to move to keep movements moving,” Laura Vega, Power Up Conference Chair and Associate General Counsel & Senior Director, Legal Affairs of MicroVention, Inc., told the robust live and virtual audience in her welcome greeting at the recent Power Up Conference & Conference on Women’s Equality Day.
Introducing Gloria Feldt, the powerhouse behind the day’s events, as well as co-founder and president of Take The Lead, Vega says, “She is such an inspiration and role model.”
Taking the stage with an enthusiastic crowd of leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, managers, media leaders, students, writers and philanthropists, Feldt says, “In order to make big systemic change, we need to be big, be bold and be out there.”
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Issue 239 — August 28, 2023
Last night, attending an Angel City Football Club soccer game (they won 3–1!), I had a tearing up moment chatting with a woman I happened to be standing next to. She had come down to Los Angeles from the Bay Area to bring her two elementary school aged daughters to the game. She said, “Can you imagine? We never got to see anything like this. The women’s team, owned by women, run by women, supported by so many women?”
I looked at her girls cheering away, waving their Angel City scarves, and felt so proud of how far we have come on the long road to equality.
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“I learned quickly on that my dream of being a singer wasn’t what my immigrant parents wanted for me. Making art for a living was for them not a reality-based decision,” says Connie K. Lim, whose professional name is MILCK; it’s her first two initials and her last name backwards.
But she did make her dream happen in a very big way, her using her power and voice in an enormously successful global musical career, activism and presence in the social justice equity movement and advocacy for truth and personal power. MILCK performs in person at Take The Lead’s Power Up Conference & Concert, “Lead Your Intention,” August 26 on Women’s Equality Day.
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Issue 237 — August 7, 2023
I break out in a cold sweat when people say the word “event.”
There are so many moving parts to putting on a valuable and memorable conference — and why would you do one if it weren’t valuable and meaningful? The logistics alone break my head, and there are always dozens of opinions about who to invite to speak and perform, where to have it, what to have for lunch — you name it.
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Who hasn’t had a work experience that incites tension and discomfort? And who doesn’t want to change that?
How you lead with a more positive culture is the centerpiece of one of several roundtables at the Power Up Conference & Concert, Lead Your Intention, on Women’s Equality Day in person and virtually August 26.
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You will be wowed from the start. That is the intention.
Take The Lead’s Power Up Conference & Concert on Women’s Equality Day, “Lead Your Intention,” offers a full day of keynotes, panels, roundtables and sessions with acclaimed speakers, leaders, founders, consultants, entrepreneurs and authors —all with the mission to help you achieve your career and life goals with specific strategies, alliances, information and insights.
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