I Owe You an Update

Issue 225 — April 9, 2023

Thank you for supporting Take The Lead! You make this essential work for gender parity possible. As a donor, you deserve to know what your gifts accomplish. We’ve been heads down doing the work — delivering training, creating valuable leadership content, and planning exciting new programs. Here’s a brief update for 2023 so far. I’d love to elaborate if you want more information, and I’ll be happy to take your questions, ideas, and comments. Please send them to me here.

The Sum, Gender ParityGloria FeldtApril 10, 2023gender parity, Take The Lead Event, MastermindComment

Sway This Way: How Mothers Make It Work Across Generations

It’s about the sway, not just the balance.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Joann Lublin says that for mothers employed outside the home, balance is not the goal, but swaying is.

Ardern/Wojcicki/Sturgeon/Sandberg: Are Women Leaders Who Leave Setting Women Back?

Issue 222 — February 20, 2023

I love this phrase from Susan Wojcicki’s letter, announcing she is stepping down as CEO of YouTube: “It’s an incredibly important time for Google — it reminds me of the early days — incredible product and technology innovation, huge opportunities, and a healthy disregard for the impossible.” (Emphasis mine).

Sex, Camera, Power: How Filmmakers Affect Gender Bias in Workplace and Beyond

What you see is what you get. And what you don’t see is what you don’t get.

Nina Menkes, award-winning filmmaker, director and creator of the new documentary, “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” anchored a recent panel following a screening in Chicago at Facets on the historic visualization of characters identifying as women and how that mandates how systems treat half the world.

Change Leadership, Gender Parity, Women Career Success, Parity, MediaMichele WeldonDecember 9, 2022women in film, media, gender bias, Leadership ToolsComment

Title IX at 50: Sports Drive and Inspire Women Leaders to C-Suites

“There is not anything that empowers girls and women the way sports do,” says Donna Lopiano, President and Founder of Sports Management Resources, at the recent conference, “Title IX at 50: Past, Present, Future,” spanning three days of events at Northwestern University.

How Do You Go from Grief to Joy?

How 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...

The Big RE Awards: Take The Lead Honors Excellence In Equity Leadership, Philanthropy, Business

It is the first of many.

Suzanne Lerner, co-founder of Michael Stars, was awarded the first-ever Wear The Shirt Award at Take The Lead’s 2022 Power Up Concert & Conference, the Big RE: Rethink, Rewire and Recreate held recently virtually and in person in Phoenix, AZ.

Standing Ovations for Pianist and Composer Marina Arsenijevic at Take The Lead Power Up Concert on Women’s Equality Day

“Marina Tore the Damn House Down”

— Felicia Davis , Leadership Brand Strategist Founder of BlackWomanElevate

NEW YORK, NY, USA, September 3, 2022

EINPresswire.com — MARINA’S BOMBASTIC PERFORMANCE to be REBROADCAST on her YouTube channel premiering on September 1, 2022.

Women’s Equality Day: How Take The Lead Delivered Strategies to Power Up For the Big RE

Just 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.

Why Risks Pay: WMarketplace Co-Founder, CEO, Power Up Conference Speaker on Women Creating Wealth

“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.

Celebrate 8: Take The Lead’s Legacy of Action and Solutions Toward Equity Leads to 2022 Power Up Conference

“Let’s all raise our voices together for women’s leadership parity. There’s a lot of power in speaking up together. It’s time.”

Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead with co-founder Amy Litzenberger, made that bold declaration eight years ago at the launch of Take The Lead. This was a 2014 event for participants in person at Arizona State University, and also live streaming to 42 countries and an aggregate audience of one million.

Watch more in Take The Lead on the Launch Event

Leading Man Award Winner: Vada Manager, Founder, CEO Pushes for Gender Equity, Balance & Fairness

“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.

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