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The 12 Best Leadership Lessons From Take The Lead in 2022

Who really needs a partridge in a pear tree? What many women in the workplace need is a reliable set of accessible tools, insights and proven leadership lessons to enhance and transform their careers and their work lives.

Take The Lead offers those valuable tips each week in interviews with a broad range of leaders across identities and communities in various industries across the globe, representing different approaches to distinct challenges many face.

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GivingTuesday CEO: Everybody Is Generous

“Generosity is a basic, positive human value. In today’s climate, it is a tremendously undervalued tool for depolarization,” says Asha Curran, CEO of GivingTuesday, a unique model of funding and community-based philanthropy in 85 countries, raising an estimated total of $7-10 billion over the last 10 years.

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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.

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Expand The Truth: Women Journalists Explore Present, Future and Power Of Community

“I don’t believe in the luxury of neutrality when our bodies are on the line.”

Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor for The Washington Post, told more than 120 journalists from across the U.S. at the recent Journalism & Women Symposium camp in Austin, Texas, that her crucible as a journalist in the age of disinformation is to “expand someone’s imagination of what is true and how people see the world.”

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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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Pay Me Now: 5 Essential Invoicing Tips Entrepreneurs, Leaders Can’t Afford to Miss 

The global electronic invoicing market is booming, and according to imarc's E-invoicing market forecast report for 2022-2027, it’s not going to stop anytime soon.

As businesses across various industries make the switch from paper-based invoices to completely digital ones, entrepreneurs are uncovering smart ways to further optimize their billing systems.

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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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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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