At her first job after graduating college in 1990 at Walden Books, Monica Smith, CEO and founder of Marketsmith, would walk into one of their stores filled with books and magazines and feel overwhelmed.
“It would become my best tool,” says Smith, who was severely dyslexic since childhood and was not able to read effectively until she was 18.
Read MoreIssue 174 — August 2, 2021
A colleague once gave me a poster bearing the caption, “When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember your goal was to drain the swamp.”
Read MoreThese eight leaders at the helms of Fortune 500 companies represent women key to recovery from the pandemic and the economic fallout from the last 18 months in this country and beyond.
Read MoreHers is a rhapshody in power.
Award-winning concert pianist and composer Marina Arsenijevic has spent a lifetime creating music and performances around the globe that offer healing and respite in times of conflict and recovery.
Read MoreIssue 173 — July 26, 2021
Two billionaires went into space last week and created a big dust up here on Earth. The debates over whether Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos did something amazing or disgusting raged on social media.
Read MoreThe Tokyo 2020 Olympics kicking off this month are notable not just for what is missing—the crowds in the stands, many athletes who tested positive for COVID and Sha’Carri Richardson due to a positive marijuana test—but what gains have been achieved for competitors identifying as female.
Read MoreOf course, women have come a long way since gaining their right to vote. Female representation in traditionally male-dominated industries continues to grow.
However, Pew Research shows that about 64% of women still think there is much work to do as progress in equal rights remains not far enough. And many argue that COVID has set back women a decade on progress towards equity in the workplace.
Read MoreAfter delivering her third child at 5:25 a.m. March 18, 2020, by 8 a.m., Erica Lee, the chief operating officer of Marquis Who’s Who, was on the phone with her remote team asking how they were doing with her newly devised COVID plan to work from home.
“I had her, she’s fine, now let’s get you working,” she says she told her team.
Read MoreIssue 172 — July 12, 2021
Last week, I attended my first unmasked, in person, un-social distanced theatrical performance, albeit outdoors. It was pure bliss.
The play was, of course, the thing, and an entertaining one at that. But being in a community of happy theater goers was by far the essence of my joy.
Read MoreWhether you are settling down with an e-reader on your favorite screen or thumbing through pages on a beach, this summer season offers many exciting new reads from fiction to nonfiction, advice, memoir and biography by some familiar and new favorite authors.
Each summer Take The Lead recommends what you might like to dive into, share in your book club or recommend to a friend, colleague, mentor or mentee. Here are a delightful bakers’ dozen of Take The Lead suggestions (alphabetically listed because we can’t possibly rank them as we love them all), with an addendum of four irresistible Young Adult offerings you may want to share with a younger person you mentor, love and intend to inspire.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that women have struggled to find equality with men in the workplace, both in terms of treatment and salary. Discrimination — overt and subtle, conscious and unconscious — has been common in workplaces across the country, and the wage gap has been a constant. Equal pay still isn’t a reality.
Read MoreIssue 171— July 5, 2021
Philanthropist Melinda French Gates stood for a photo op with French President Emmanuel Macron at the UN Women’s Generation Equality Forum June 29-July 1, 2021 and discussed the Gates Foundation’s new commitment of $2.1 USD to women’s economic empowerment, family planning, and (Hallelujah! At last!) accelerating women’s leadership.
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