Pandemic Parenting: 10 Best Steps For Mothers, Leaders During COVID

Amanda Zelechoski not only practices what she preaches; she practices what she researches.

As an attorney, licensed clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in child and adolescent trauma, she co-founded the site and resource, Pandemic Parenting, to help others and herself as a mother of three young boys.

During COVID lockdowns with remote work and remote schooling, “The stress at home can be bad,” says Zelechoski, associate professor at Valparaiso University, where she directs the Psychology, Law and Trauma Lab, and whose sons are 11, 8 and 5.

Change Leadership, Career success, Women Career Success, Women Career Choices, Power At Work For Women, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonNovember 13, 2020Covid-19, Women leaders, Working women, Leadership Tools, Work From HomeComment

Within Reach: Ed Tech Co-founder and CEO On Unplanned Steps To Success

A lot of the Greek gods were already taken.

So Sabari Raja, co-founder and CEO of Nepris, an education technology company, settled on the Greek god Nepris as the name of her new company who is the “lord of sustenance.”

“We were looking for unique names to build a brand, so we turned to the Greek gods, and every Greek god was already an education company,” says Raja, whose platform connects 85,000 K-12 educators with experts for instruction to more than 550,000 students in this country.

Career success, Entrepreneur, Inspirational Role Models, Mentors and Sponsors, Women Career Success, Women Career ChoicesMichele WeldonNovember 6, 2020Women Leaders, Female Entrepreneurs, Women In Tech, Women In Business, career path, Career SuccessComment

A Force Together: Founder, CEO Shares Tips For Working With Millennials, GenZ

Courtney McKenzie Newell in 2011 named her first agency Crowned Marketing & Communications, where she is founder and CEO because she was a crowned beauty pageant winner as a student at Florida International University.

Winning Miss Palm Beach County, and later competing in Miss Florida as part of the Miss American pageant series, McKenzie Newell says, ““I took that money and started my business and paid homage to where ti came from.”

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Career choices, Changing the Workplace, Entrepreneur, Women Career Success, Women Career ChoicesMichele WeldonOctober 23, 2020Marketing, Women In Business, Women Leaders, Millenials, powerful women leadersComment

Clean Up Your Zoom Act: 5 Ways To Avoid Virtual Conflict

Never mind your cat crawling over your keyboard or a partner walking behind you in pajamas—or less. But the new realities of working from home and zooming for most of your business day present challenges. And not just when you get the alert that your Internet connection is unstable.

When body language is literally unseen, and all someone can ascertain from you are facial expressions, business communication is fraught with possible landmines—and it is particularly perilous for women, who are judged more harshly on their appearance, their responses, even tone of voice.

Women Career Success, Women Career Choices, Ambition / Intention, Career success, Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonOctober 2, 2020Zoom, Work From Home, Career Sucess, Workplace Culture, Leadership Tools, Leadership AdviceComment

Update: COVID Infects 25 Years Of Progress After Women’s Rights = Human Rights Speech

In 1995, Madonna, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson topped the pop charts. A new music option called DVD launched. Windows 95 and Ebay were introduced.

And Hillary Clinton gave a world-turning speech in Beijing, China.

“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women’s rights. And women’s rights are human rights,” First Lady of the United States Clinton spoke to a crowd of 1,500 on September 5, 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women by the United Nations Development Program.

Changing the Power Par..., Parity, Women Career Success, Women Career Choices, Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonSeptember 4, 2020Hillary Clinton, Women's Equality, United Nations, Covid-19, Networking, Gender Parity, Leadership, Women LeadersComment

Silver Lining: Inventor, Founder Creates Urgent Solution and Fulfills Her Dream

Lori Greiner, the highly successful investor on ABC-TV’s “Shark Tank,” can offer tips and also learn lessons from Zeynep Ekemen, the creator of Silver Defender, a stretchable film that protects any and all surfaces from germs and viruses.

Ekemen, or Z, as everyone calls her, was at her early morning “Breakfast Club” with business friends in a local Fort Lee, New Jersey coffee shop in 2018, when one of her friends returned from the men’s room grossed out by what he saw.

Career success, Career choices, Ambition / Intention, Entrepreneur, Women Career Choices, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonAugust 24, 2020women entrepreneurs, women inventors, Covid-19, women in business, How women can advance their careersComment

In tribute to female mayors, taking the lead

Issue 136 — July 20, 2020

The passing of Civil Rights leader and legend Congressman John Lewis made me deeply sad. A wave of great lions and lionesses of the movement for racial equality is moving on just as the country is at the crossroads. Either we’ll make the systemic change that they visualized, that they risked their very lives for, or we’ll let the elements of xenophobia take us back to pre-Rosa Parks days. As tributes to Lewis fill the media, I became aware that his career in elective office started on the Atlanta City Council.

The Sum, Women Career Success, Women Career Choices, Leadership tools and tips, Leadership/Political a...Gloria FeldtJuly 20, 2020Women Leaders, Women In Government, Women In Politics, How women can advance their careers Comment

Leading With Data: Founder Enhances Take The Lead’s Premium Coaching Program

Yes, that is her family’s given surname.

Vidhi Data, founder of Lead with Impact, and the Take The Lead Leadership Ambassador spearheading the launch of Take The Lead’s Premium Coaching, gets the question often if her last name “Data” is a gimmick because she specializes in digital transformational leadership.

Career success, Ambition / Intention, Career choices, Women Career Success, Women Career Choices, Take The Lead LaunchMichele WeldonJune 29, 2020Coaching, How women can advance their careers, career goals, Leadership, Women In Tech, Premier CoachingComment

The Power in Uncertainty: Women In Law Take The Lead For Change and Fairness

“Being uncertain doesn’t mean you are powerless,” said Jami McKeon, chair of Morgan Lewis, the largest law firm in the world led by a woman.

Speaking on the recent online panel, “Building a Better Legal Profession: Diversity, Inclusion, Technology, and the Teams of Tomorrow,” co-sponsored by Take The Lead and University of Texas’ Center For Women in Law, McKeon said COVID-19 and the most recent protests and developments highlighting injustice in the past few weeks have changed the legal profession and practices—especially for women, particularly women of color.