Close Achievement Gap: Helios Vice Chair On Urgency of Education Access

“Each generation wants their kids to have it better than they did,” says Jane LaRocca Roig, vice chair of the board of directors of Helios Education Foundation that has invested more than $300 million in educational initiatives and scholarships since 2004.

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How Do You Go from Grief to Joy?

How do you go from grief to joy?

This week I write about how the examples of recent moments of communal grief--the 21st anniversary of 9/11 and the death of Queen Elizabeth II—can inform us as we grapple with personal grief. And I share a phone call that helped me process my grief by creating a lasting legacy in memory of my husband, and the resulting joy. Read the full story here...

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You Need This: Leaders On Embracing Power, Overcoming Obstacles, Leading with Resilience & Taking Risks

Your internal obstacles are as powerful as your external obstacles at preventing you from realizing your full potential. But there are key strategies to overcoming both kinds of barriers.

Hope Timberlake, coach, trainer and author of Speak Up, Dammit: How To Quiet Your Fears, Polish Your Presence and Share Your Voice shared with a virtual audience at the recent 2022 Power Up Conference: The Big RE, how you can manage fears and get to making impact and change.

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Pay Me Now: 5 Essential Invoicing Tips Entrepreneurs, Leaders Can’t Afford to Miss 

The global electronic invoicing market is booming, and according to imarc's E-invoicing market forecast report for 2022-2027, it’s not going to stop anytime soon.

As businesses across various industries make the switch from paper-based invoices to completely digital ones, entrepreneurs are uncovering smart ways to further optimize their billing systems.

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The Big RE Awards: Take The Lead Honors Excellence In Equity Leadership, Philanthropy, Business

It is the first of many.

Suzanne Lerner, co-founder of Michael Stars, was awarded the first-ever Wear The Shirt Award at Take The Lead’s 2022 Power Up Concert & Conference, the Big RE: Rethink, Rewire and Recreate held recently virtually and in person in Phoenix, AZ.

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Standing Ovations for Pianist and Composer Marina Arsenijevic at Take The Lead Power Up Concert on Women’s Equality Day

“Marina Tore the Damn House Down”

— Felicia Davis , Leadership Brand Strategist Founder of BlackWomanElevate

NEW YORK, NY, USA, September 3, 2022

EINPresswire.com — MARINA’S BOMBASTIC PERFORMANCE to be REBROADCAST on her YouTube channel premiering on September 1, 2022.

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The Big RE Secret for Solving Women’s Pay and Debt Gaps

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.

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Know Your Currency: Carla Harris Powers Up With Lessons on Authenticity and Taking Risks

Her 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.

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Women’s Equality Day: How Take The Lead Delivered Strategies to Power Up For the Big RE

Just 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.

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