Pivot to Purpose: Kathleen Turner Defines A Career of Risk and Service at Power Up

Kathleen Turner did this on purpose. There’s a reason you can’t limit her to memory for just one role.

“If you look over my history of film, my stage history, every role I have done is done in direct contrast to another,” Turner said to a rapt audience at Take The Lead’s Power Up Conference on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C.

“I have found over the years it is difficult to put my body of work together, as there is no one role for me to ever be known by,” said Turner, the iconic actress who has been engaging audiences for more than 46 years. Speaking on the careers panel at the “Together We Lead” themed conference, Golden Globe winner Turner spoke of her intentional career agility, longevity and powerful choices.

Career choices, Career successMichele WeldonSeptember 20, 2024Women Leaders, journalism, Career Choice, taking risksComment

Power Up For Women’s Equality Day: 5 Proven Reasons Together We Lead Increases Equity

It has been 104 years since the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote, and Women’s Equality Day on August 26 is a salute to that milestone. In 10 years, Take The Lead has acted on the mission to reach gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025.

"Many of the inequalities protested in 1970 remain: pay and leadership gaps, roll backs of reproductive rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment, written 101 years ago, is still not in the Constitution," said Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead at the recent Power Up Concert & Conference Event. '
"I said when we decided to hold the conference in D.C. this year that we would either celebrate the ERA in the Constitution or raise hell that it isn’t," said Feldt, speaking at the fifth annual Power Up event for Take The Lead.

Combining the two historic efforts is the Power Up Concert & Conference Event 2024 on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C. This year’s theme of “Together We Lead” emphasizes the world-changing movements, personal and professional advancements possible when women lead together with allies, partners, policy makers, colleagues, administrators, mentors and associates. All have the goal in mind of parity in leadership across all gender, racial, geographic, age, ideological, physical and mental identities and communities by 2025.

Investing in Parity: Podcast Episode with Gloria Feldt

Catherine Gray, the host of “Invest In Her”, interviews Gloria Feldt, a nationally acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with expertise from frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker.

Career success, Parity, Ambition / IntentionGloria FeldtAugust 19, 2024Podcast, Women Leaders, gender equality, LeadershipComment

Honor Your Authenticity: Power Up Award Winner Succeeds With Life Choices

Jenny Nguyen learned how to dribble a basketball at four years old. So, it’s little wonder that at 44, she is running the hugely successful enterprise, The Sports Bra, the first bar/restaurant ever to only show women’s sports on its large TV screens.

Winner of the Changemaker of the Year Award from Take The Lead, Nguyen will speak about her journey as a first-generation Viet Nam daughter who followed her dreams even as they shifted at the 2024 Power Up Concert & Conference on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C.

Nine Power Tool Award winners will receive recognition at the event August 25-26– one for each of the 9 Leadership Power Tools in Take The Lead’s curriculum. The awards were created by Felicia Davis, Take The Lead Leadership Ambassador and Founder of the Black Women’s Collective.

Unify Your Team: 10 Ways Great Leaders Move Forward From Discord

In a chaotic political campaign season, it’s all about having the right team, from candidates to social media message branding. Beyond the realm of politics and winning a single election, how do you as a leader in an industry or as an entrepreneur bring together a team of different intentions, skillsets, locations, identities, and career history to succeed for the present and future?

Perhaps you are in a new position as a leader, or you are a colleague and team member who is part of a shifting of titles and responsibilities. Holding it all together with purpose and transparency is the mark of a great leader. The puzzle pieces do not need to remain puzzling.

Making History Known: Biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin on The Power of Story

History is personal.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer-Prize winning presidential historian and author of six other biographies, knows that well. She turns the spotlight on her own life, in her latest book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, underscoring the need for everyone to know and share their history.

“The power of that decade was that people were filled with the idea that they could make a difference,” says the 81-year-old at a recent Chicago Humanities Festival event. That sentiment echoes again today.

Ambition / Intention, EventMichele WeldonMay 24, 2024Women Leaders, storytellingComment

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

Practice Hope: Legend Joan Baez on Activism, Music and Making Good Trouble

“Who wants to sit next to Juanita?”

Born in New York, and growing up in California, and later Massachusetts, Joan Baez says she felt like an outsider as a young girl of Mexican heritage in a small public school where her grade school teacher taunted her with a name that was not hers.

Harmony in Work & Life: Founder, Innovator in Manufacturing, Marketing on Passion For Change

“Having trusted relationships is how I got here today,” says Kara Demirjian Huss, vice president of T/CCI Manufacturing and recently appointed to the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board, overseeing the United State Plan for Illinois workforce development system.

“There is a lot of talk about work/life balance, but it’s not balance, it’s harmony.”

What’s Tina Got to Do With Women’s Leadership?

Issue 230 — May 28, 2023

Back in the day, a friend of mine used to say that she wanted to BE Tina Turner.

As the tributes flowed following Turner’s death on May 24 at 83, it was obvious that she had an equally significant impact on countless people around the world. (In Australia, the whole country stopped to dance to “Nutbush City Limits.”)

The SumGloria FeldtMay 28, 2023Women Leaders, Leadership Lessons, independence, Career SuccessComment

Class of 2023: Support, Skills, Advice Grads Need To Succeed Now

All hail to the 2023 college graduates, the class that was sent home from their dorms and classrooms in March 2020 of their freshman year due to COVID concerns.

As commencement season peaks, wisdom rings from podiums around the country in speeches from illustrious icons offering what they may hope is affirmation at the start of careers.

People First: Leading to Advance Science, Learning, Inclusion For Museums, Communities

Curiosity comes to Dr. Rabiah Mayas naturally.

The first-ever Chief Partnerships Officer at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (one of the largest in the world), says growing up in Silver Springs, MD her parents sent her to the library or the encyclopedia to find answers to her questions.

View Newsletter Archive

Info

Action