Winning Leadership: Take The Lead’s Award-Winners To Shine At Power Up Conference

They are all in the fight to win. And when gender parity in leadership arrives, everyone wins.

Because of that dedication to the mission of fairness, equity, gender parity and inclusion, these four exceptional leaders—Angel City Football Club’s Julie Uhrman, Kathleen Turner, Ms. Magazine’s Kathy Spillar and Darnell Moore—are each duly honored at the 2023 Power Up Conference & Concert on Women’s Equality Day that coincides with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, D.C.

Fair is fair and these award-winners are fairly acknowledged and celebrated.

Career success, Event, Gender ParityMichele WeldonAugust 25, 2023Power Up Conference, Kathleen Turner, awards, Leading Man AwardComment

Women's Influence: Leading Man Award-Winner Darnell Moore on Activism, Equity and Healing Power of Access

Since the very beginning, Darnell Moore has relied on a community of women in his “huge” family with his mother, aunts, grandmothers, sisters and cousins contributing to his recognition that gender equity was absent and that everyone across identities needs to support each other in truth, healing and power.

Career success, Ambition / Intention, EventMichele WeldonAugust 18, 2023Leading Man Award, Power Up ConferenceComment

Exclusive Fireside Chat with Liz Elting

Do you have the entrepreneurial itch, but need inspiration from successful businesspeople to boost your untapped potential and lead YOUR intention? Are you an entrepreneur who can use some inspiration and practical advice? Do you have a vision of making enough money to become a philanthropist?

This chat is a unique opportunity to hear from a visionary leader who not only established her own successful enterprises but also champions other women’s achievements and their ventures.

Career success, Change Leadership, EventGloria FeldtAugust 17, 2023Power Up Conference, Equality Day, Gloria FeldtComment

Dreams Come True: MILCK On Her Music, Activism and Power Up Concert Performance

“I learned quickly on that my dream of being a singer wasn’t what my immigrant parents wanted for me. Making art for a living was for them not a reality-based decision,” says Connie K. Lim, whose professional name is MILCK; it’s her first two initials and her last name backwards.

But she did make her dream happen in a very big way, her using her power and voice in an enormously successful global musical career, activism and presence in the social justice equity movement and advocacy for truth and personal power. MILCK performs in person at Take The Lead’s Power Up Conference & Concert, “Lead Your Intention,” August 26 on Women’s Equality Day.

Secure Your Intention: Why You Need To Power Up At Women’s Equality Day Conference

It’s a fact. Networking works— especially for women across all industries and identities.

Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference on Women’s Equality Day offers unique opportunities for networking, learning, sharing, skill-building, strategic planning, understanding, and expressing your intentions on how and why to create the career and life you always imagined.

Reimagining Your Career and Life: How Power Up Conference Leaders Can Help You Thrive

It’s one mission to serve your country. It is quite another to serve your own mission.

Those lessons apply to every person making life and career adjustments.

“Women who have served in the military have successfully learned to maneuver in a closed, highly structured environment and within their own area of expertise such as logistics, combat arms, personnel, operations, and more,” says retired Major General Margaret (Peggy) Wilmoth, PhD, MSS, RN, FAAN, and professor in the School of Nursing at University of North Carolina since 2017.

Billion Dollar CEO, Founder: Liz Elting on Dreaming, Mentoring, Giving and Winning

Liz Elting was never lost in translation.

Founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, she started her first venture in 1992 as a graduate MBA student at New York University’s Stern School of Business with the creation of TransPerfect, a language solutions company.

Failure As True Growth: Abby Wambach On What Makes A Good Leader

“Failures are things I feel most proud of. Stop calling it failure, it’s true growth,” says Abby Wambach, former two-time U.S. Women’s National Team Olympic gold medalist, World Cup Soccer winner and author.

At the recent Customer Contact Week Conference in Las Vegas, Rebecca Jarvis, ABC News chief business economics correspondent describes Wambach as someone who “turns failure into fuel.” Jarvis adds that Wambach is also “the highest international goal scorer of all time” as well as an “advocate for pay equity and LGBTQ rights.”

No Lie: Gabrielle Union on How Entrepreneurs Can Create Success

“If you can’t be honest about yourself, you will go through life as a lie,” said Gabrielle Union, entrepreneur, award-winning actress, producer and author in a recent conversation at Pride Summit 2023 with B. Pagels-Minor, podcast host and founder of DVRGNT Ventures.

Practice Hope: Legend Joan Baez on Activism, Music and Making Good Trouble

“Who wants to sit next to Juanita?”

Born in New York, and growing up in California, and later Massachusetts, Joan Baez says she felt like an outsider as a young girl of Mexican heritage in a small public school where her grade school teacher taunted her with a name that was not hers.

Harmony in Work & Life: Founder, Innovator in Manufacturing, Marketing on Passion For Change

“Having trusted relationships is how I got here today,” says Kara Demirjian Huss, vice president of T/CCI Manufacturing and recently appointed to the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board, overseeing the United State Plan for Illinois workforce development system.

“There is a lot of talk about work/life balance, but it’s not balance, it’s harmony.”

Yes, You Can: Hillary Clinton On Owning Ambition, Power & Happiness

“Accomplishment and happiness go together,” Hillary Rodham Clinton told an enthusiastic crowd during her recent talk for the Chicago Humanities Festival Joanne H. Alter Women in Government Lecture.

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