Honor Your Authenticity: Power Up Award Winner Succeeds With Life Choices
Honor Your Authenticity: Power Up Award Winner Succeeds With Life Choices

Jenny Nguyen learned how to dribble a basketball at four years old. So, it’s little wonder that at 44, she is running the hugely successful enterprise, The Sports Bra, the first bar/restaurant ever to only show women’s sports on its large TV screens.

Winner of the Changemaker of the Year Award from Take The Lead, Nguyen will speak about her journey as a first-generation Viet Nam daughter who followed her dreams even as they shifted at the 2024 Power Up Concert & Conference on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C.

Nine Power Tool Award winners will receive recognition at the event August 25-26– one for each of the 9 Leadership Power Tools in Take The Lead’s curriculum. The awards were created by Felicia Davis, Take The Lead Leadership Ambassador and Founder of the Black Women’s Collective.

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Let’s Talk Impact: Podcast Episode with Gloria Feldt
Let’s Talk Impact: Podcast Episode with Gloria Feldt

I had such a great time telling the story of my life to Justyna Kedra, CEO of @WERULE for her hashtag#podcast “Let’s Talk Impact”

It’s fortuitous that I received the recording to post on this day, August 9, 2024 exactly 50 years after two life changing events: Richard Nixon resigned as president and I accepted (in a wild leap of faith or folly) the position of executive director of what was then Permian Basin Planned Parenthood. Hear what happened then:

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2X Employee Retention? 😳 Yes, Please. (PowerUp for a Solution!)
2X Employee Retention? 😳 Yes, Please. (PowerUp for a Solution!)

Issue 269 — August 11, 2024

Let’s not overstate. One conference can’t solve all problems. But research backs up the value of providing leadership development like what participants get at Take The Lead’s PowerUp Concert and Conference.

👉🏽 According to Deel Global HR’s 2004 statistics, 94% of employees stay longer in companies that invest in their professional development, and providing a robust program can 2X retention.

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TAKE THE LEAD Announces 10th Anniversary Leadership Parity Conference Celebrating Barrier-Breakers in Health, Education, Entertainment, Finance and Politics on Women’s Equality Day
TAKE THE LEAD Announces 10th Anniversary Leadership Parity Conference Celebrating Barrier-Breakers in Health, Education, Entertainment, Finance and Politics on Women’s Equality Day

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 6, 2024) — TAKE THE LEAD®, the national non-profit dedicated to achieving gender parity in leadership by 2025, has announced keynote panels, conference honorees and concert performers for the 5th edition of their leadership parity summit. “PowerUp: Together We Lead” takes place both virtually and in person in Washington D.C. on Sunday, August 25 and Monday, August 26, timed with Women’s Equality Day. It also celebrates the organization’s 10th anniversary.

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Close The Healthcare Gap For Women: How Power Up Conference 2024 Can Help
Close The Healthcare Gap For Women: How Power Up Conference 2024 Can Help

The gendered gap in healthcare for those identifying as women from diagnosis, pain treatment, mortality, costs, coverage and data to representation in the industry as well as leadership is both an historical and current critical issue--one literally of life and death.

The need for parity in all aspects of health for women is a topic at Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference event on Women’s Equality Day in Washington, D.C. Speakers and panelists include Dr. Sophia Yen, MD, co-founder and chief medical officer of Pandia Health;   Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, MD, author, CEO and founder of Adesso & Heart; and Dr. DeShawn Taylor, MD., author and founder of Health Justice MD. Dr. Taylor is receiving the Disrupter Award as the Embrace Controversy Power Tool Champion at the conference.

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It’s A Win-Win: Women Reaching Gender Equality in Sports, Work & Life
It’s A Win-Win: Women Reaching Gender Equality in Sports, Work & Life

It’s only been a century since women athletes were excluded from the 1924 Olympics in Paris, but this is quite a golden comeback. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris this year, athletes identifying as men and women are equally participating—almost.

With the hashtag, #GenderEqualOlympics, the International Olympic Committee declares gender equity in representation with 5,630 male athletes and 5,416 women. Twenty-eight out of 32 sports are fully gender equal in Paris, with a schedule of 152 women’s events, 157 men’s events and 20 mixed-gender events.

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Unify Your Team: 10 Ways Great Leaders Move Forward From Discord
Unify Your Team: 10 Ways Great Leaders Move Forward From Discord

In a chaotic political campaign season, it’s all about having the right team, from candidates to social media message branding. Beyond the realm of politics and winning a single election, how do you as a leader in an industry or as an entrepreneur bring together a team of different intentions, skillsets, locations, identities, and career history to succeed for the present and future?

Perhaps you are in a new position as a leader, or you are a colleague and team member who is part of a shifting of titles and responsibilities. Holding it all together with purpose and transparency is the mark of a great leader. The puzzle pieces do not need to remain puzzling.

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All You Need: 7 Key Reasons To Attend Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference
All You Need: 7 Key Reasons To Attend Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference

Celebrating this year’s Women’s Equality Day and 10 years of Take The Lead’s successes are reasons enough to attend the 4th annual Power Up Concert & Conference. But what you take away in knowledge, strategies, mentorship, networking, friendships, collaborators, inspiration and specific tools for your leadership path are priceless.

The “Together We Lead” event is spearheaded by Take The Lead Co-founder and President Gloria Feldt. The event includes the evening concert August 25 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts* in Washington, D.C., and the full-day conference August 26 at the National Housing Center. Icon Lynda Carter will receive the Leading Woman Award, along with other key awards, panels and workshops.

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TAKE THE LEAD Honors Lynda Carter At Conference On Women’s Equality Day
TAKE THE LEAD Honors Lynda Carter At Conference On Women’s Equality Day

Guest post by Melissa Miller Young, with much gratitude to Women Connect 4 Good Foundation and Dr. Nancy O’Reilly, presenting sponsor for Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert and Conference August 25 and 26. 

Ten years ago, I joined 3,000 other women at Gammage Hall on the Arizona State University campus. Together, we listened to Sheryl Sandberg, Karen Finney, Erica Gonzalez, Pat Mitchell, Gloria Feldt, Carla Harris, and other powerful speakers talk about the importance of advancing more women into leadership.

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