Issue 205 — September 5, 2022
Something doesn’t compute here, I thought, when I saw a well-meaning but laughable piece of advice to women in an Ad Council campaign in collaboration with AARP.
“Save a larger percentage of your income for retirement,“ it tells women, and cites the data that women are 80% more likely than men to be poor in their old age. “Save 2% more than you are currently saving,” goes the advice.
Read MoreWith millions of women leaving the workforce, those who are still working are especially vulnerable to imposter syndrome.
For most of my professional career, I have worked in the high-tech industry with predominantly male leadership. I continue to be appreciative of the mentorship I’ve received over the years, but I would often follow that with self-comparison.
Read MoreYou must pull up the next person in line.
Katica Roy, gender economist and CEO of Pipeline Equity, is the daughter and sister of refugees. Her family came to America from Hungary and rebuilt their lives here because of help they received.
Read MoreHer pearls are “hard-earned and hard-learned.”
Carla Harris, senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley, author, acclaimed singer and leadership icon, told the live and virtual audience at Take The Lead’s recent Power Up Conference: The Big RE: Rethink, REwrire, Recreate, that 35 years of surviving and thriving on Wall Street has earned her deep credibility. And these are lessons she shares.
Read MoreJust one day a year is designated Women’s Equality Day in the U.S.
The other 364 days a year, Take The Lead is also working to prepare, develop, inspire and propel women across all industries and sectors to reach parity in leadership by 2025. And on Women’s Equality Day, August 26, the 2022 Power Up Conference, The Big RE: REthink, REwire, REcreate, kicks off virtually and in person to address the solutions possible to succeed on the path to equity.
Read More“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.
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