While Take The Lead has a mission of gender parity across all sectors in leadership of 2025, the rest of the world may be on a much slower time frame. Implementing diversity and inclusion efforts to make a fair and balances workforce that represents the population by gender, race, age, ethnicity, ability, orientation and more is taking a lot more time than originally thought
Read MoreI’ve been toting my Kate Spade bag since her untimely death by suicide this week.
Read MoreIn recent weeks the slurs and vulgar language issued by TV celebrities Samantha Bee, Roseanne Barr, Joy Reid and Joy Behar have not only caused fallout, firings and backlash, but they raise a larger point beyond celebrities and comedy about the level of language most appropriate in leadership.
Read MoreThe worst example of procrastination I witnessed was as a university professor overseeing teams of student journalists each producing a multimedia package for the final project
Read MoreIn her first job in 1990 after graduating from a small Iowa college, Rae Shanahan worked in human resources for Maytag in Newton, Iowa
Read MoreCounterbalancing Roseanne Barr’s hideous racial slur, and on par with the good news of Starbuck’s anti-bias training for 180,000 employees in the US, the Illinois legislature voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment this week.
Read MoreThe summer is approaching and if you are extremely lucky, your company or organization will have summer hours built in so you can take advantage of a slower schedule.
Read MoreNot to get all cheerleader-like, but there are times when the team you lead may need a boost.
Read MoreShe’s relevant, hip, influential and inspiration for tattoos.
Read MoreMeghan Markle might never become Queen of England, but she rules the world through the power of the symbols she chose for her wedding.
Read More“This is the meta moment.”
Read MoreI have participated in 22 graduations.
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