Your Action Plan: How To Tame Your Power Demons With Intentioning

We all have them and COVID-19 plus the ongoing pandemic of racial injustices complicated many people’s relationships with Power Demons, or the beliefs and ideas that rob them of the chance to become what and who they intend.

In her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good, Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, demonstrates an indisputable case with specific tools to maximize your intentioning and annihilate the Power Demons.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Gender ParityMichele WeldonSeptember 3, 2021Intentioning, Leadership Books, Gloria FeldtComment

Women Asking, Women Giving: 3 Ways to Maximize Impact of Philanthropy

Issue 176 — August 30, 2021

If you want to see me break out into a cold sweat instantly, just say the word “event.” Every time an organization with which I’m involved has an event, my first reaction is “No.”

Not surprisingly, since I’ve been leading nonprofit organizations almost my entire career, and thus on the asking end of the fundraising equation, that probability of cold sweat occurs with some frequency.

The SumGloria FeldtAugust 30, 2021Philanthropy, Take The Lead Event, Covid-19, Women's Equality DayComment

The Sound of Equity: Women’s Equality Day Concert Succeeds For Take The Lead

“We are determined to take this opportunity, to take the losses and turn them into gains,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead in the opening introductions of the Women’s Equality Day Concert featuring internationally renowned composer and pianist Marina Arsenijevic.

Show Me The Way: Path To Carnegie Hall Paved With Intentioning for Women’s Equality Day Concert Star

Issue 175 — August 23, 2021

I had so much fun interviewing pianist Marina Arsenijevic in preparation for Take The Lead’s Women’s Equality Day concert.

She talked about how, soon after she arrived in the United States, she told a group of families who like herself had immigrated from Serbia, one of seven countries that war torn Yugoslavia had split into that her dream was to play in Carnegie Hall.

The SumGloria FeldtAugust 23, 2021Women's Equality Day, intention, Leadership ToolsComment

Are You Feeling This? Why Higher EQ May Make Women Better in Business

Getting ahead in business is often attributed to character traits such as ambition, confidence, and even aggression. Women— in outdated tropes— are sometimes dismissed as too emotional to withstand the pressures of big business, are still woefully underrepresented when it comes to leadership roles and other positions of authority. More recent research, however, has confirmed that women are of course capable of rising to the top tiers of companies, due in part to their emotional intelligence.

Megan HudsonAugust 23, 2021Comment

10 Reasons To Support Women’s Equality Day Now With Take The Lead

Women’s Equality Day is one day on the calendar, but for Take The Lead it is the forever goal on the horizon—moving closer each day. Progress is in process, but so are biased hinderances and backsliding internationally for all those identifying as female. So take the day—Women’s Equality Day—to continue toward the goal by joining in for Take The Lead’s Women’s Equality Day Concert August 26.

Fight Fair: Top Women Journalists Take on Media Equity Urgency With Hope

Leading the recent virtual discussion, “Take The Lead Presents: Equity for Women in Journalism,” Charreah Jackson and four veteran award-winning broadcast journalists plus Mira Lowe, president of Journalism & Women Symposium, tackle the shifting nature of journalism, opportunities for women, ongoing challenges of discrimination and the urgency to fight for fair gender identity and racial equality and representation in media newsrooms.

Remote Survival: 3 Micro-Habits To Boost WFH Productivity

We won’t deny it. There's a huge amount of pressure on women in the workplace. Even as some workplaces return to the office, working from home is still part of the hybrid job description. For others, WFH is the “new normal.” Additional stressors add to this equation, but productivity shouldn't be one of them. When working efficiently at home, many tend to seek out dramatic and overly optimistic changes in an attempt to remedy procrastination and a lack of motivation. Unfortunately, there’s no one major quick fix to improving your productivity when working from home.

Live Your Bucket List: Founder, CEO, LGBTQ+ Advocate Does The Work and Wins

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.

FREE MASTERCLASS: HOW TO “CARPE THE CHAOS” AND THRIVE

Issue 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.”

This Is How She Does It: 8 Women CEOs Leading the Shecovery in 2021

These 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.

Lyle D. SolomonJuly 30, 2021Comment

Global Star Pianist, Composer Marina Arsenijevic Shines On Women’s Equality Day

Hers 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.

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