“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.
Read MoreIf you had the courage to use your Power TO do what is your highest intention and all you deserve to be in the world, what would you do, Friend?
Tara Jaye Frank, a featured keynote speaker for Take The Lead’s hybrid Power Up Big RE Concert and Conference on August 26 believes every leader in every seat has the power to become a Waymaker to create sustainable change and equity for women.
Read More“Let’s all raise our voices together for women’s leadership parity. There’s a lot of power in speaking up together. It’s time.”
Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead with co-founder Amy Litzenberger, made that bold declaration eight years ago at the launch of Take The Lead. This was a 2014 event for participants in person at Arizona State University, and also live streaming to 42 countries and an aggregate audience of one million.
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Read MoreThere’s a reason Marina Arsenijevic’s story is the longest in my book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and Why Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good. She’s the archetype Intentional Woman and the role model for Leadership Intentioning Tool #2: Dream UP, because if your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.
Read MoreTake The Lead, a nationally recognized non-profit dedicated to achieving gender parity in leadership, will celebrate Women’s Equality Day by hosting its third annual Power Up Concert and Conference on August 25 and 26 with a theme of “The Big RE.” The event is hybrid, with the in-person sessions taking place in the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, AZ. Starting at $297, early bird ticket packages can be purchased here.
Each package level has special offerings for the buyer, including opportunities to get deeply discounted Take The Lead courses. A free musical concert – celebrating Take The Lead’s eighth anniversary and the 80th birthday of Gloria Feldt, its co-founder and women’s advocate– is a conference highlight; additional information can be found here.
Read More“I believe all business is personal.”
Vada Manager, founder and CEO of Manager Global Holdings, and President and CEO of Manager Global Consulting Group, has spent a lifetime following that mantra.
It is an underlying current in a purposeful and extremely successful global professional life that earns Manager the Leading Man Award presented August 26 at Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference.
Read MoreThe world lost a one-of-a-kind man on July 17 when my beloved husband Alexander Barbanell died following a two-week hospitalization for pneumonia and multiple infections that were too much for his 91-year-old body to overcome. He was just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday, August 1.
Read MoreSophia Yen, MD, is not wearing her uterus necklace today.
It is a mere oversight perhaps, because most days, the CEO and co-founder of Pandia Health, the world’s only women-founded, women-led/doctor founded, doctor-led birth control delivery company, dons the jewelry reminder as a way to “respect the womb. We all owe the womb for our existence.”
Read MoreThere is a fire that erupts when women REmember who they are AND know that it’s their time to step up and fully own their authority to lead.
Yes, ’m talking about you because you are that woman!
You are the woman that The Big RE Conference was created for because we know that on the other side of spending two days immersed in the power-packed agenda we have in store for you, you are going to leave knowing what it takes to…
Carla Harris has been with Take The Lead from the get-go.
The acclaimed and celebrated Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, author, leader, professional singer and philanthropist was with Take The Lead at its 2014 launch and will accept the 2022 Leading Woman Award this year at the Power Up Conference: The Big RE August 25-26.
Read MoreAccording to a Strome College of Business study, more than 92% of remote workers experience “Zoom Fatigue,” which does not bode well for overall team productivity.
There are a few reasons that online meetings are not as effective as in-person meetings: there’s less real-time feedback; many online meeting attendees do not use sound or video; and multitasking takes over.
Read MoreThe summer of 2022 marks the third summer of COVID-related work complications for millions of women from remote work adjustments to childcare urgencies to workplaces shutdowns, reorganizations and layoffs.
The National Women’s Law Center reports that between February 2020 and January of this year, 1.1 million women left the workforce. Some reinvented themselves as entrepreneurs, others reshaped their lives outside of their careers. Research shows this cultural time, space and economic reality supports shifts that not only bring change, but transformation.
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