As the global digital communications director for Ford Motor Company, Gwen Jimmere had a company car that was a baby blue Mustang convertible, passes to the Super Bowl and paid travel around the world. But it was not what she wanted ultimately wanted to do.
Read MoreLeap Day is one day added to the calendar every four years “as a corrective measure,” because the earth’s orbit is not precisely completed in 365 days. Take The Lead is jumping on that opportunity on Leap Day this year for its own corrective measures moving the workplace and culture toward gender parity in leadership with the “Power Up: Igniting the Intentional Leader Within” conference February 28-29 in Scottsdale, Az.
Read MoreStacey Engle, president of Fierce Conversations, understands perfectly the double meaning of the word. “Fierce to me is what you think of when someone is fiercely loyal, passionate, caring, courageous and getting to the heart of something.” She adds, “Someone can also interpret fierce as aggressive or too intense.” The two interpretations offer the opportunity to address what it means to be effective.
Read MoreIt was a gorgeous Arizona Sunday, not yet two weeks into the new year and the new decade. The 2020s. I love that nice round number. I was lighthearted, with the sense of optimism I get at such a time, when it seems like the slate is clean and the future open to our intentions.
Read MoreFlorence Shin and Athina Wang want you to know they are absolutely not sick of each other. The co-founders and creators of Covry, a brand of handcrafted eyewear they launched in 2015, have been besties since high school class of 2009, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, as the two most interested in fashion in their larger group of friends.
Read MoreLouisa May Alcott is so 2020. At least her 1868 novel, “Little Women” in the hands of film director Greta Gerwig is. It’s a new feminist film far ahead of its time with lessons in leadership, ambition, motherhood, work and sisterhood that all women can use right about now. The lessons gathered from the latest iteration of the film also coincide with the 9 Leadership Power Tools created by Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead.
Read MorePersuasion had to start early in life for Lee Hartley Carter, author and president of maslansky + partners, a global language strategy firm based in New York with the tagline, “It’s not what you say, it’s what they hear.” Growing up the first daughter in a New Jersey family where her mother and most all female relatives stayed home to raise children, Carter says she still has to answer the question, “What do you mean you’re still working?”
Read MoreThe narrative on health and wellness for women in the workplace is changing. Companies are moving away from a world where employees clock in and out, sit in grim cubicles all day, and make do with five sick days a year. A good leader knows that a healthy, thriving workforce is a productive and engaged workforce. Take the lead in employee wellness. Here are six ways to cultivate personal health in the workplace.
Read MoreI have been tempted to send end of the year emails to colleagues who routinely fail to respond to necessary emails with: “The year is almost over, can you please answer this question from July?” But I know that is not a good idea. Whether you are an entrepreneur with a small business, or a manager in a large corporation, you will want to get your records and files in order.
Read More“Too black.” Apparently actress Gabrielle Union was fired from her position as a judge on “America’s Got Talent” because as an African-American woman, her hairstyles were deemed not appropriate or comfortable for some audiences to watch, according to reports.
Read MoreSo you don’t want to organize something that involves ugly holiday sweaters, because that is so 10 years ago. If you are in charge of creating or even contributing to the workplace end of the year event—and 82 percent of workplaces do have a holiday event—why not make sure it is memorable, safe and perhaps even advances your mission?
Read More“Remember the ladies,” future First Lady Abigail Adams implored her husband, John, in March 1776 as the Continental Congress was crafting the U.S. Constitution.
“All men would be tyrants if they could,” she wrote. “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
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