If you didn’t get a chance to participate in the Take the Lead annual 2-day conference at the Phoenix Biltmore, I highly recommend watching the replay. This event exceeded expectations in providing inspiration, tools and action items for stepping into your most powerful potential. Yet lurking among the conversations spanning all aspects of Diversity and Inclusion, a new shared challenge emerged. In a word; burnout.
Read More“Each generation wants their kids to have it better than they did,” says Jane LaRocca Roig, vice chair of the board of directors of Helios Education Foundation that has invested more than $300 million in educational initiatives and scholarships since 2004.
Read MoreHow do you go from grief to joy?
This week I write about how the examples of recent moments of communal grief--the 21st anniversary of 9/11 and the death of Queen Elizabeth II—can inform us as we grapple with personal grief. And I share a phone call that helped me process my grief by creating a lasting legacy in memory of my husband, and the resulting joy. Read the full story here...
Read MoreThe global electronic invoicing market is booming, and according to imarc's E-invoicing market forecast report for 2022-2027, it’s not going to stop anytime soon.
As businesses across various industries make the switch from paper-based invoices to completely digital ones, entrepreneurs are uncovering smart ways to further optimize their billing systems.
Read MoreYou must pull up the next person in line.
Katica Roy, gender economist and CEO of Pipeline Equity, is the daughter and sister of refugees. Her family came to America from Hungary and rebuilt their lives here because of help they received.
Read MoreJust one day a year is designated Women’s Equality Day in the U.S.
The other 364 days a year, Take The Lead is also working to prepare, develop, inspire and propel women across all industries and sectors to reach parity in leadership by 2025. And on Women’s Equality Day, August 26, the 2022 Power Up Conference, The Big RE: REthink, REwire, REcreate, kicks off virtually and in person to address the solutions possible to succeed on the path to equity.
Read More“I weigh fear against, ‘What if I didn’t try that?’”
Being what she calls risk-tolerant has worked well for Kate Isler, co-founder and CEO of TheWMarketplace, who also calls herself an “activist, wife, mother, partner, friend, businessperson and sister.”
“I never want anyone to think I go into this blindly, especially when you are the breadwinner and have responsibility for five people,” says the married mother of three sons, 31, 27 and 23.
Read More“I believe all business is personal.”
Vada Manager, founder and CEO of Manager Global Holdings, and President and CEO of Manager Global Consulting Group, has spent a lifetime following that mantra.
It is an underlying current in a purposeful and extremely successful global professional life that earns Manager the Leading Man Award presented August 26 at Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference.
Read MoreCarla Harris has been with Take The Lead from the get-go.
The acclaimed and celebrated Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, author, leader, professional singer and philanthropist was with Take The Lead at its 2014 launch and will accept the 2022 Leading Woman Award this year at the Power Up Conference: The Big RE August 25-26.
Read MoreAccording to a Strome College of Business study, more than 92% of remote workers experience “Zoom Fatigue,” which does not bode well for overall team productivity.
There are a few reasons that online meetings are not as effective as in-person meetings: there’s less real-time feedback; many online meeting attendees do not use sound or video; and multitasking takes over.
Read MoreMaybe, just maybe, Karen Graham can attribute her new career as vice president of marketing and brand for Evite back to her mom who loved to throw parties when she, her younger brother and older sister were growing up in the northern suburbs of Chicago.
“I’ve always loved events, I’m very social, but I haven’t thought before that my mom loved throwing parties. She went big for birthday parties. So something rubbed off on me,” says Graham, who is in charge of rebranding Evite, the 24-year-old online invitation platform.
Read MoreIt matters if you see people in the world who are like you. Fair and equitable representation in content across platforms is the mission of Standard, a creator management company, with Gemma Arnott as Chief Operating Officer.
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