Now Is Best Time To Network: Mom Project Gives $500K to Extend Jobs, Projects

“Now is one of the best times to network,” says Kayla Tekus, director of marketing at The Mom Project, a Chicago-based talent and coaching company focusing on career paths of women and mothers, with a community of over 250,000 professionals and more than 2,000 companies.

The latest news for the company founded in 2016 by CEO Allison Robinson, is that they are offering $500,000 in their Stronger Together Fund to small and medium sized businesses to retain female employees or hire new ones on contracts, with $1,000 to $5,000 grants. Thirty grants have been given so far.

All You Need Is This Course: 9 Leadership Power Tools Go Virtual June 1

The world has changed drastically since February in every possible way across the world—for women especially. And while many are learning to adapt their professional and personal lives in what is the new mid-COVID-19 normal, adjusting to the status quo is not the only choice.

Transformation is another.

Vision, Focus, Transparency: CEO in Education Offers 6 Lessons on Leading Now

Growing up in Cincinnati, Kristyn Klei Borrero says the desegregation of local schools there gave her a view of K-12 education that “was not monolithic” and steeped in “white kids’ privilege.”

It would fuel her career as CEO and co-founder of CT3, a coaching services company dedicated to improving curriculum across the country by coaching and training educators creatively and serving more than 1 million students in the past 12 years.

The Sum: Mother’s Day in a Pandemic

Issue 128 — May 10, 2020

The phones are ringing, the texts are buzzing, social media notifications are pinging, and the Zooms and Zoom Rooms are being scheduled throughout the day to connect with family members so we can wish each other Happy Mother’s Day (almost) in person.

Inspirational Role Models, The SumGloria FeldtMay 10, 2020Mother's Day, Motherhood, Women leadership, Take The LeadComment

What Day Is It? 7 Keys To Maintaining WFH Focus During COVID-19

Is it Tuesday or Thursday? Are you mixing up your days of the week working from home?

Due to the COVID-19 shelter from home mandate for millions now working remotely from home, the challenges of isolation, distractions, interruptions, family duties and more are crossing the lines literally from work and home.

If You Must Let Her Go: 8 Ways To Make Tough Choices and Lead Compassionately

“You’re fired” is not such a funny meme right now.

The economic realities of the recent months are driving up unemployment to more than 30 million individuals, with furloughs and diminishing project work for most every American who is a non-essential worker. Being on the receiving end of that news is devastating.

Leading In Chaos: How Resilient Are You?

Millions of us are testing the limits of our own strength—physically, emotionally, mentally—whether in isolation, working from home or facing the enormous challenges of essential work and the multi-dimensional threats of COVID-19.

What’s the matter with Dr. Deborah Birx? 5 Reasons for her epic #Leadershipfail

Issue 127—April 27, 2020

If you’re watching the Mrs. America series starring Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly, who mobilized the successful opposition to the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, you might wonder why in the world would a woman oppose equal rights for her own gender?

The SumGloria FeldtApril 27, 2020Leadership, Women Leaders, Take The Lead, Gloria Feldt, Covid-19Comment

New WFH Income: 7 Ways To Monetize Your Quarantine Hustle

Most everyone I know has an income shift or even income elimination due to the shelter in place mandate due to COVID-19. So many in event planning, retail, hospitality, restaurants, and pretty much anything that requires other people and is considered non-essential have been laid off, or their income streams have dropped.

5 Types of Corporate Culture: Which One Is Yours?

Culture affects every aspect of your company, from the public’s perception of your brand to your employees’ job satisfaction to your bottom line. Because there’s so much at stake, it’s important that your corporate culture is adaptable and open to improvement – which starts with being able to articulate just what kind of culture your company has.

What My Grandmother Molly’s Cherry Wine Says About Humanity During COVID-19

Issue 125 — April 6, 2020

Making a grocery store run, I spotted a lone bottle of cherry wine on the shelf. Memories of my paternal grandmother Molly or Malle came flooding in.

I can see her in her small kitchen that smelled of garlic in Temple TX, cooking all day for her bustling household that usually included Granddaddy Isak or Isaac, one or more of their four sons living at home, and on the weekends their daughter Mayme home from her job in Houston, plus on Sundays my parents and maternal grandmother and sometimes other relatives.

Quarantine Creative Distractions: Try Writing To Save Your Life

If only you had the time to write. Maybe now you just might.

Millions across the country are WFH—working from home—and have been for the past several weeks. They will be sheltering in place for several more weeks or months perhaps during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many at the same time are e-schooling children, caring for family members and partners.

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