Turn The Page: 11 Books You Need To Read Now And Give This Holiday Season

We can always use a new book, life approach, history lesson, toolkit or bible of strategies to improve ourselves and how we think and behave as leaders. Reading and learning is what great leaders do.

At a time when books and the prohibition of books makes news across the country, it is necessary to maintain reverence for books as a way to create, recreate and reimagine our lives.

Pink knows books are essential gifts to ourselves, our children and all others as she announced recently she is giving away thousands of banned books at her concerts, in cooperation with PEN America and poet laureate Amanda Gorman.

Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonNovember 17, 2023books, Leadership Books, Life AdviceComment

Open Up: 10 Great New Books By Women For Women Who Read To Lead

In her new book, Backroads Boss Lady: Happiness Ain’t a Side Hustle- Straight Talk On Creating The Life Your Deserve, Jessi Roberts, founder of Cheekys, a clothing and accessories brand with $6 million a year that she launched in a small Idaho store, tells it like it is.

Career choicesMichele WeldonFebruary 11, 2019books, Career, female entrepreneurs, Goodreads, Michele WeldonComment

What Color Were Dorothy's Shoes?

The book that taught me I could be a leader

Gloria FeldtAugust 12, 2018books, feminism, gender-equality, Leadership, Women

That’s What She Wrote: 25 Books By, For and About Women in Leadership This Summer

It gets tiresome every publishing cycle when lists of recommended business and leadership books feature only male authors or a very few female authors.

ParityMichele WeldonJuly 31, 2018books, list, Michele Weldon, women leaders, women writersComment

90's Lessons: What We Can Learn From the Bitchification of Women

Courtney Love, Hilary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Marcia Clark, Tonya Harding and The Spice Girls taught women as much about how to be as how not to be

Gender Bilingual Commu...Michele WeldonJune 26, 2018books, Change, gender equality, language, Michele Weldon, ResearchComment

Book Your Vacay: 11 Summer Reads (& Listens) for Women Leaders

Resist the urge to consume the mindless beach read this summer. You know what we mean, the cotton candy of a novel that if you left it in the sand it would be OK with you.

Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonJune 16, 2017books, feminism, inspirational women, Michele Weldon, women leadersComment

Turn The Page: The Importance of A Woman Leader at Library of Congress

As Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and also the first African American who will head the Library of Congress, is sworn in this week, it seems a good time to take a look at the gendered legacy of American literary traditions from publication to reviews to prizes.

Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonSeptember 12, 2016books, Change, gender bias, inspirational women, LeadershipComment

Emma Watson Continues to Use Her Celebrity for Good

If you’re anything like us, you were also jumping for joy when you heard that UN Women Goodwill ambassador Emma Watson gave us one doozy of a New Year’s present: a feminist book club dubbed “Our Shared Shelf.”

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