Global Tech Leader: Why Collaborating And Supporting Women in Tech Is Urgent

The customer may or may not be always right, but Kristin Naragon tries to always do right by the customer. She also tries always to do right to create gender fairness, equity and inclusion for women in tech.

As VP of global marketing and strategy at Akeneo, a product experience platform for more than 600 companies such as Sephora, Forever 21, Carhartt and more, Naragon works on global strategies for better customer experiences. And after recently receiving $135 million in series D funding for Akeneo, Naragon is on a mission to make that happen.

You Need This: Leaders On Embracing Power, Overcoming Obstacles, Leading with Resilience & Taking Risks

Your internal obstacles are as powerful as your external obstacles at preventing you from realizing your full potential. But there are key strategies to overcoming both kinds of barriers.

Hope Timberlake, coach, trainer and author of Speak Up, Dammit: How To Quiet Your Fears, Polish Your Presence and Share Your Voice shared with a virtual audience at the recent 2022 Power Up Conference: The Big RE, how you can manage fears and get to making impact and change.

Zooming In: Top Strategies For Better Remote Meetings

According 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.

Be Uma: Founder, CEO, Author on Manifesting Your Success With Confidence

She has always liked moving fast.

At seven years old, growing up in greater London, Rita Kakati-Shah told her physician father and zoologist mother (who was also a classically trained singer and dancer) that she intended to be a formula race car mechanic or race car driver.

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.

No Vax? Coping With Unvaxxed Colleagues, Clients and Customers

You are double vaxxed, boosted and spatially safe, yet you work regularly with colleagues, clients and customers who are not.

Never mind the masking issue, you are in contact in-person—and remotely—with people who are opposed to treating COVID-19 the same way you do and it is causing disruption, discontent and malaise in the workplace.

How as a leader do you maintain professional distance and your own safety as well as a safe and fair workplace culture?

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.

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.”

Who’s In Charge? Authority Gap Is Real and What You Can Do About It

It is likely that if many of us had a nickel for every time someone questioned our authority or expertise, many of us would not be too concerned about having enough saved for retirement.

Yes, those moments when your title and role are announced and the naysayers shrink in the back of the room, can be satisfying, but the consistent presumption of a lack of authority and credibility based on gender is far too prevalent and costly. It hinders not just acknowledgment, but advancement, opportunity, income and quality of life.

Yes We Can: How to Build a Culture of Inclusion, Tips from the Women and Worth Summit

Issue 180 — October 4, 2021

Humming Alicia Keys’ song “A Woman’s Worth,” I entered the room, only my second in-person event since February, 2020, to join the Women & Worth Summit 2021: Reset. Refresh. Rebuild.

The Summit description says what I believe about the opportunity of disruption, “While the pandemic threw the state of the world into chaos, the globe is finally beginning to reopen, allowing us the chance to reset and rebuild. We can use this momentum to create scalable change and impact.”

The Sound of Equity: Women’s Equality Day Concert Succeeds For Take The Lead

“We are determined to take this opportunity, to take the losses and turn them into gains,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead in the opening introductions of the Women’s Equality Day Concert featuring internationally renowned composer and pianist Marina Arsenijevic.

Lucky 13: Must Read Now Books on Leadership, Life, Lessons and Success

Whether you are settling down with an e-reader on your favorite screen or thumbing through pages on a beach, this summer season offers many exciting new reads from fiction to nonfiction, advice, memoir and biography by some familiar and new favorite authors.

Each summer Take The Lead recommends what you might like to dive into, share in your book club or recommend to a friend, colleague, mentor or mentee. Here are a delightful bakers’ dozen of Take The Lead suggestions (alphabetically listed because we can’t possibly rank them as we love them all), with an addendum of four irresistible Young Adult offerings you may want to share with a younger person you mentor, love and intend to inspire.

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