Credit Where Credit Is Due: Co-Founder Helps Employees Create Wealth

By the time Einat Steklov moved to the United States from Israel in 1996, she had already served in Israeli Defense Forces, graduated from Tel Aviv University Law School and worked in a corporate law firm.

But she couldn’t get a phone line because she needed a credit history in the U.S.

“I recall sitting there thinking I need a credit card. I made good money, my husband made good money and we could not establish credit,” says Steklov, founder and CEO of Kashable, a lending model offered through employers for employees to have easy access to credit.

Shades of Gray: Leadership Advancement Tips From Former Ukraine Ambassador

“All of a sudden whispers become large shouts,” Marie Yovanovitch, former ambassador to Ukraine, told a crowd recently at the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Talking about her politically-forced firing from her position as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in 2019 after 33 years of foreign service and three ambassador posts, Yovanovitch adds, “This is not anything I imagined would happen to me.”

Open The Mirrored Door: Key Tips For Building Your Path To Leadership

For a generation or more, women in leadership in the workplace have focused on breaking the glass ceiling.

Now, says Ellen Taaffe, Director of Women’s Leadership Programs at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, it’s time to focus on breaking through what she calls the “mirrored door.”

Strength Finder: How Founder, CEO Turned Illness Into Powerful Global Effort To Impact Lives

Donna Cryer’s mother wanted a white picket fence surrounding an idyllic space for her children to grow up in Waterbury, Conn.

“We did indeed have a white picket fence,” says Cryer, founder, president and CEO of the Global Liver Institute, whose parents moved to Connecticut during the late 1960s when they were recruited as African American schoolteachers for local public schools.

Leading With Empathy: Tech CEO Offers Tips On Full Leadership

“Fish don’t know they’re in the water.”

They just swim.

That is a saying and a mindset that Tracey Zimmerman, the newly appointed and first female president and CEO of Robots & Pencils, an international digital innovation firm, takes to heart.

Find Your Squad: How Founder, CEO Created Startup To Solve Parenting Needs

The third envelope in the class exercise at Goldman Sachs Small Business Program was the key.

Jennifer Beall Saxton, founder and CEO of Tot Squad, recalls the class exercise was to open three envelopes in succession. In the first envelope was a fake check for $50,000. The assignment was to figure out what as a start-up, you could do with that influx of cash. Saxton had plenty of ideas.

Break The Bias: On IWD, Enroll in New 9 Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career

International Women’s Day is one day out of 365 to intentionally promote equity and fairness for all those on the globe identifying as female and to address the urgency of breaking deliberate and unconscious bias interrupting the path to gender equality. #BreakTheBias is the theme of IWD this year.

You’ve Got The Power: Newly Enhanced 9 Leadership Power Tools Course Arrives March 8 Because Now Is Best Time For You

Because you are worth it. Because now is the time to rethink your life, your work, your purpose and take the action to shape the future you intention.

What the Great Reshuffle informed by the global pandemic has done to physical and remote workplace cultures, it has also done to you.

Persevere, Be Authentic: Take The Lead Board Chair Lily McNair Advises on Leadership

“I was the kid who loved all kinds of things.”

As a girl growing up outside Trenton, New Jersey at Fort Dix, where her father was based in the U.S. Army, Lily McNair loved books—a biography on Harriet Tubman especially, plus a psychology textbook—and a chemistry set that taught her how to make little volcanoes.

The miniature chemistry set her parents gave her one Christmas ignited McNair’s love of science. Tubman’s story inspired her to live a life helping others. And the psychology textbook her father bought (though he had not attended college) showed her she wanted to pursue a career in psychiatry or psychology.

Be Unreasonable: Key Paths To Achieving Your Intentions in 2022

“Be unreasonable.”

Merriam Webster defines the adjective as “not governed by or acting according to reason,” or “exceeding the bounds of reason or moderation.”

For the highly successful and accomplished panelists at the recent Women inPower event through the 92 Street Y, practicing moderation and reason is not how they got to where they are.

Reading The Future: 5 Trends To Define Work in 2022 and Beyond

The coronavirus pandemic has altered every aspect of life, and the workplace is no exception.

In 2020, 2.3 million women left the U.S. workforce—either through job loss or being forced to quit in order to care for their children—leading to the lowest levels of women in the labor force since the 1980s, prompting Vice President Kamala Harris to declare it “a national emergency.”

Look Back, Look Ahead: 21 Ways Take The Lead Delivered Solutions in 2021

Sometimes a surprise email makes your day, or week, or year.

Take Lead Co-Founder and President Gloria Feldt opened this email recently from Erica Miles, a leader in tech.

“Gloria, you are my inspiration,” Miles writes. “Because of my work with you, your 9 Power Tools, and the Take the Lead training, No Excuses, I made a leap for a promotion. Thank you for your leadership; you encouraged me to step out, market myself and personally drive the next step in my career. I was getting stuck and not realizing my own value. I am hoping that all the inspiration I received from you will be realized by all your training participants, so they also realize their own worth.”

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