Issue 242 — October 1, 2023
No, not October surprises like in politics, where they’re always bad news. We don’t need those.
These FREE juicy morsels of practical information to use and inspiration to lift us up, served up in brief, engaging chats, will spice up the fall without the calories of pumpkin spice lattes. Though feel free to sip one while joining us for these conversations.
Read MoreNow that the pandemic is officially over—in spite of spiking cases nationwide— many leaders are calling for a return to the physical office.
Farmers Group CEO Raul Vargas recently mandated everyone be back in the office because it breeds creativity, camaraderie, and collegiality.
According to Business Insider, “The CEOs of Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan have said remote work is a solution for some, but not all, and larger companies like Disney and Starbucks have recently updated their requirements for employees to work in offices at least a few days per week.”.
Read MoreAcross countless industries, women’s careers depend on looking at screens for hours. Whether you're participating in online meetings or writing reports, you'll probably find yourself looking at a screen for extended periods. Unfortunately, although we may be predisposed to long hours of productivity, our eyes aren't. A study from SAGE Open Medicine explains that computer vision syndrome is becoming a major public health concern, especially now that we do more work digitally. It can affect your vision and lead you to make more mistakes, become less productive, and ultimately lower your job satisfaction. What’s more, 74% of women than men are more likely to experience this syndrome.
Read MoreOne industry heavily impacted by the shift towards digitization in the wake of COVID-19: customer service. Long-standing customer behaviors were upended during the pandemic, challenging the industry to make dynamic changes to meet new needs and demands. This has led to a rise in tech-driven solutions powered by AI and machine learning, giving the perfect opportunity for a new type of leader to step in and shape the future of CX: women.
Women helped develop innovative software; however, men took on the leadership when it took off and began infiltrating the industry, leaving women to be promoted to higher-ranking positions at lower rates than their male counterparts.
Read MoreIssue 241 — September 25, 2023
📢 Attention Entrepreneurs: Are you an aspiring, budding, or seasoned founder? Regardless of where you are in your journey, this snippet from the “Women’s Health Through the Lifecycle” panel that took place at Take The Lead’s Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference is meant for you:
Read MoreCut to the chase: Are you a female entrepreneur? Take The Lead has an incredible opportunity for you to get the mindset, skillset, and connections to scale your business. (And get a $10,000 value program for pennies!)
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“Just give us a chance for the next 2,000 years and we will clean it all up,” Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, told the enthusiastic crowd at the recent Power Up Concert closing out the recent 2023 Conference, “Lead Your Intention.”
Speaking about the mission of Take The Lead to reach gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025, Feldt said, “Get involved at the local level;, that’s how you make the change with intention. It’s fun to be part of what is going on in your community.”
Read More“Fear is an opportunity. Challenges are part of every life journey—in work, business, relationships, challenges are opportunities for growth,” says Homaira Kabir, founder of The Goodbye Perfect Project and a women’s leadership coach.
Read More“Intention is a pipe dream unless you put action to it,” Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, told the enthusiastic live and virtual participants at the fourth annual Take The Lead Power Up Conference & Concert on Women’s Equality Day in Los Angeles at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.
Delivering the 2023 Leading Company Award to Angel City Football Club and its CEO and co-founder Julie Uhrman, Feldt says, “I believe Angel City is literally changing the world for women in sports and the business of sports.”
Read MoreIssue 240 — September 4, 2023
Philosopher William James called sports “the moral equivalent of war.”
That’s an inherently patriarchal lens on sports. Everything in that framework is about power and power in turn is about war and fighting, with the assumption that someone has to win, someone has to lose, and there’s no in-between.
Read More“We need to move to keep movements moving,” Laura Vega, Power Up Conference Chair and Associate General Counsel & Senior Director, Legal Affairs of MicroVention, Inc., told the robust live and virtual audience in her welcome greeting at the recent Power Up Conference & Conference on Women’s Equality Day.
Introducing Gloria Feldt, the powerhouse behind the day’s events, as well as co-founder and president of Take The Lead, Vega says, “She is such an inspiration and role model.”
Taking the stage with an enthusiastic crowd of leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, managers, media leaders, students, writers and philanthropists, Feldt says, “In order to make big systemic change, we need to be big, be bold and be out there.”
Read MoreIssue 239 — August 28, 2023
Last night, attending an Angel City Football Club soccer game (they won 3–1!), I had a tearing up moment chatting with a woman I happened to be standing next to. She had come down to Los Angeles from the Bay Area to bring her two elementary school aged daughters to the game. She said, “Can you imagine? We never got to see anything like this. The women’s team, owned by women, run by women, supported by so many women?”
I looked at her girls cheering away, waving their Angel City scarves, and felt so proud of how far we have come on the long road to equality.
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