Don’t Get Mad: Keys to Calm Negotiating With Tough Partners for Your Win

A newly pervasive culture of shouting matches at school board meetings, city council meetings, citizen meetings with elected officials, youth sports, union meetings, public protests, board meetings, diplomacy meetings and even televised negotiations from the Oval Office have all normalized yelling, name-calling and bullying.

But this behavior is neither normal nor productive. So how do you change the momentum of the moment when you are in a work environment and someone shouts, yells, screams or causes chaos to erupt?

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

Know Your History: Kendrick Lamar Makes Legacy During Black History Month

It’s heresy, I know, but you don’t normally find me watching the Super Bowl.

However, dinner at a friend’s home during the annual Big Game was served around a television with the game on. It turns out I am glad.

Sorry, Kansas City Chiefs. Congratulations, Philadelphia Eagles. But thanks to you both for providing the perfect kickoff, as it were, for the connection to Black History Month.

The Sum, Change LeadershipGloria FeldtFebruary 11, 2025Black History Month, Leadership, Womens Leadership, Parity, Social JusticeComment

The Good, The Bad, and The Promising For Women in Generative AI Workforce

The historic and ongoing tech workforce gender gap is replicated in the Generative AI field, with the latest introduction of global giant DeepSeek competing with Chat GPT and other players. Today, only 22% of the AI workforce is women.

The possibility is that as GenAI expands its reach, access and innovation, the roles of women in AI leadership can blossom to equity.

Parity, Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonFebruary 7, 2025AI, Technology, Parity, Leadership, Womens LeadershipComment

It’s Time: Leading Woman Award Winner Lynda Carter on The Future Of Equity and Power

Very few people could ever fill her red and white leather high-heeled boots, and Lynda Carter herself has achieved far more than her fictional character of Wonder Woman ever could. Even with the starred crown.

As the recipient of Take The Lead’s Leading Woman Award at the 2024 Power Up Concert & Conference on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C., Carter eloquently demonstrates she is the role model for leadership that many generations of women and girls have always needed.

PowerUp Conference, Take The Lead EventsMichele WeldonAugust 30, 2024womens-equality-day, Womens Leadership, equalityComment

Leading In The Time of COVID-19: Take The Lead Co-Founder Offers Virtual Solutions

The global workplace is experiencing economic and cultural disruption arising from the COVIV-19 or Coronavirus spread. Updates expand daily, affecting leaders, employees and entrepreneurs everywhere. Cancellations from Coachella and South by Southwest to classes on university campuses, sporting events, professional conferences and political campaigns heighten awareness and also create chaos.

Women’s History Month: How Will You Make History?

As March was declared by U.S. Congress in 1987 as Women’s History Month—lengthened from the original week seven years earlier—it is time in 2020 to salute this year’s theme, “Valiant Women of the Vote.” In an election year that will likely not see a woman as a final presidential candidate, the theme can expand to include the past of women who fought for voting parity as well as the present and future advocates for voting women and equality.

#IWD2020: mystery, history, and 3 ways to use your gift of the present to advance gender equality

Issue 122 — March 9, 2020

The quote has been attributed to many people. But since March is Women’s History Month and I’m writing on March 8, International Women’s Day , I’m going with Eleanor Roosevelt: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that’s why they call it the present.”

The SumGloria FeldtMarch 9, 2020Gender Equality, Take The Lead, Gloria Feldt, Womens Leadership, International Womens DayComment

Be Who You Are: 4 Tips From Hair Care Product Founder On Natural Answers

“Be bold. Be Bomba. Be who you are.” This is Lulu Cordero’s mantra. The founder and creator of Bomba Curls, took a turn from her pre-med studies to economics at the University of Chicago, back to her Dominican Republic roots to develop a hair care company that celebrates the natural beauty of women.

The Right Thing To Do: Equity Leader Leon Silver Honored At Power Up Conference

“I’m just some guy doing good work.”Modesty aside, Leon Silver, member of Take The Lead’s board of directors, and honoree at the upcoming Power Up Conference, may downplay the enormity of his role and influence in gender equity work for decades. But recognizing his dedication to gender parity is what is easy.

No Try, Do: Founder Entrepreneur Offers Tips on Success

Some entrepreneurs have a knack for turning personal needs into great ideas, and then turning those great ideas into huge successes.

Stacey Blackman, founder of Stacy Blackman Consulting, the Blacklight Channel and Stryke Club, is just that entrepreneur.

While she has been reaping rewards professional for two decades, early on, she was deterred.

Oscars so mellow, Jane Fonda is an icon, Parasite rules, a musical female first but Natalie Portman shows not so much progress

Miky Lee perked me up from nearly nodding off toward the end of my friend’s Oscar party. While the staging was gorgeous, the tone had been much mellower than last year’s symbolic #metoo moments and other years when full throated political declarations ripped the air.

Even the iconic Jane Fonda, who most recently has been getting arrested weekly to raise awareness for climate change, stuck with the script as she presented the best picture Oscar.

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