Posts in Take The Lead Events
Feeling the Burn(out?) Take a 3-Minute Mindset Reset Pause

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.

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Close Achievement Gap: Helios Vice Chair On Urgency of Education Access

“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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What if Your Big RE Is to be a Waymaker?

If you had the courage to use your Power TO do what is your highest intention and all you deserve to be in the world, what would you do, Friend?

Tara Jaye Frank, a featured keynote speaker for Take The Lead’s hybrid Power Up Big RE Concert and Conference on August 26 believes every leader in every seat has the power to become a Waymaker to create sustainable change and equity for women.

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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

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It’s Your Turn, Now What?

There is a fire that erupts when women REmember who they are AND know that it’s their time to step up and fully own their authority to lead.

Yes, ’m talking about you because you are that woman!

You are the woman that The Big RE Conference was created for because we know that on the other side of spending two days immersed in the power-packed agenda we have in store for you, you are going to leave knowing what it takes to…

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