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.

It’s A Win-Win: Women Reaching Gender Equality in Sports, Work & Life

It’s only been a century since women athletes were excluded from the 1924 Olympics in Paris, but this is quite a golden comeback. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris this year, athletes identifying as men and women are equally participating—almost.

With the hashtag, #GenderEqualOlympics, the International Olympic Committee declares gender equity in representation with 5,630 male athletes and 5,416 women. Twenty-eight out of 32 sports are fully gender equal in Paris, with a schedule of 152 women’s events, 157 men’s events and 20 mixed-gender events.

Gender ParityMichele WeldonAugust 2, 2024Women in Sports, gender equalityComment

Olympic Level Change for Women in Sports: Announcing Sports Bra’s Jenny Nguyen at Power UP Conference

Issue 267 — July 29, 2024

Women make up 50% of the athletes at the Paris Olympics, an inflection point for women in sports. There’s change in the air for women’s leadership parity on many fronts, with sports on the leading edge of progress. Check out these numbers.

The SumGloria FeldtJuly 29, 2024Women in Sports, gender equalityComment

March Greatness: NCAA Women Players Help To Close Gender Gap in All Sports

Even if you are not a huge sports fan, it was almost impossible to miss the attention that Caitlin Clark, the 22-year-old basketball star playing for University of Iowa in NCAA March Madness, was earning including from NBA Superstar Steph Curry.

Michele WeldonMarch 29, 2024Women in Sports, gender equalityComment

Angel City Football Club Transforms Women's Sports - and the Movement for Gender Equality

Issue 240 — September 4, 2023

Philosopher William James called sports “the moral equivalent of war.”

That’s an inherently patriarchal lens on sports. Everything in that framework is about power and power in turn is about war and fighting, with the assumption that someone has to win, someone has to lose, and there’s no in-between.

The SumGloria FeldtSeptember 4, 2023Women in Sports, Power Up Conference, ParityComment

Title IX at 50: Sports Drive and Inspire Women Leaders to C-Suites

“There is not anything that empowers girls and women the way sports do,” says Donna Lopiano, President and Founder of Sports Management Resources, at the recent conference, “Title IX at 50: Past, Present, Future,” spanning three days of events at Northwestern University.

Play Fair, Pay Fair: How You Can Score Goal To Close Gender Pay Gap

Every player on the winningest United States women’s soccer team in history was a part of a gender discrimination lawsuitagainst the U.S. Soccer Federation recently, with the explicit goal to close the gender pay gap that unfairly compensates women in the sport.

ParityMichele WeldonMarch 15, 2019equality, Michele Weldon, pay gap, Role Models, Sports, Women in SportsComment

Tackling The Future: CEO's Game Plan To End Gender Bias in Sports, Tech and More

We don’t need another example to know what’s up. Cam Newton, NFL star with the Carolina Panthers, had just recently disrespected a female journalist by mocking her in a press conference.

Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonOctober 16, 2017Career, Change, equality, Michele Weldon, Women in Sports, women in the workplaceComment

Score One For Gender Equality: Is The NFL Ready For Women Leaders?

Are you ready for some football? A better question might be, is American football ready for more women leaders?

During this freshly launched football season, tune into network television any time Saturday or Sunday, then Sunday or Monday evenings, and you will likely witness a college-level or NFL football game. What you will not see often are women who are coaching, managing or even viewing from the sky boxes or front offices as leaders in the league.

Are You Tough Enough? Why Competitive Winning Matters To Women Leaders

As humans, we care a lot about winning. As women leaders and competitors in the workplace, we may care a whole lot more.

The literal finger-wagging battle signifying who is No. 1 in the Rio 2016 Olympics swimming competitions between USA gold medalist Lilly King and Russian silver medalist Yulia Efimova has been dramatic and perhaps non-diplomatic. King turned her win into a platform against doping in competition and touted hers as a clean victory. She later apologized.

Don't Blame It On Rio: Strong Leadership Lessons to Learn From Olympians

When I was about 10 years old, six-time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard visited my community swim team. We all sat by the pool as she passed around one of her medals and spoke to us about discipline, passion, hard work and the importance of giving it your all.

Wambach Hangs Up Her Cleats

U.S. women’s soccer team star Abby Wambach announced her retirement last week, ending a 15-year career that saw her become the all-time leading goal scorer in international matches (male or female).

Inspirational Role ModelsJulianne HelinekNovember 1, 2015Career Success, Sports, Take The Lead This Week, Women in SportsComment

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