TAKE THE LEAD® CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY

Contact: Gloria Feldt

Email: gloriafeldt@taketheleadwomen.com

Phone: 917-715-5107

ACCELERATING GENDER PARITY

Free Virtual Event Marks a Decade of Impact:

Women, Power and Leadership: A Conversation with

Gloria Feldt and Gloria Steinem Facilitated by Jamia Wilson

NEW YORK (February 14, 2024) - Take The Lead® , a nationally recognized non-profit dedicated to achieving gender parity in leadership by 2025, launches its 10th anniversary year with a free virtual event on Monday, February 19 at 2:00pmET that will convene leading voices in the women’s movement in a candid discussion: Women, Power, and Leadership: A Conversation with Gloria Feldt and Gloria Steinem, Facilitated by Jamia Wilson.

The anniversary event, to be broadcast via Zoom, will bring together Gloria Feldt, international expert on women’s leadership, bestselling author, a former CEO and president Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and co-founder of Take The Lead, with Gloria Steinem, trailblazing feminist organizer, political activist, writer, and lecturer, facilitated by Jamia Wilson, award-winning feminist activist, writer, speaker, and podcaster.

Take The Lead’s 10th anniversary comes at a time of urgency, with threats to progress thought to be secure in the advancement of women’s leadership and challenges to intersectional gender parity. Registration for Women, Power, and Leadership is free of charge to maximize accessibility thanks to support from generous sponsors. Registrants will receive the recording, as well, for future replay.

“After a decade of delivering proven programs that accelerate women’s leadership, the bold mission of Take The Lead is more important than ever,” says Feldt. “Gloria Steinem and I have had the privilege of working for decades to achieve tremendous progress. Yet we are currently experiencing rollbacks of women’s rights. The time is right for this conversation facilitated by a younger leader of the movement, learning from where we have been but, more importantly, looking ahead to what we must to to secure women’s power, and leadership.”

In the past decade Take The Lead has helped thousands of women know their power and accelerate their careers by rethinking leadership and power, providing a research-based training and coaching curriculum, inspiring conferences, and cohort groups rooted in changing the power paradigm from historically oppressive power OVER to generative and expansive power TO. Based on Feldt’s book No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, the curriculum and portfolio of innovative Take The Lead programs enable women to embrace their power with authenticity, achieve higher intentionality and skills for leadership, and, along the way, create more joy.

Proceeds from event Sponsorships and donors support Take The Lead’s ongoing work to accelerate gender parity and women’s leadership. Click here for Sponsorships at levels: $1,000 – Boosters; $2,500 – Partners; $5,000 – Champions; $10,000 - Sheroes/Heroes

Generous event sponsors to date include:

Adriana Shaw / Herflix
Laura Vega
Lily McNair-Roberts
Margaret Chamberlain Wilmoth
Mary Lake Polan and Frank Bennack
Susan Arnot Heaney
The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation
The Michael Stars Foundation

About Take The Lead

Co-founded by Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead, is a 501 (c) (3) that prepares, develops, inspires, and propels all women of all diversities and intersectionalities to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. The organization's programs and services for companies and individuals include the 9 Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career online course, 50 Women Can Change the World Cohorts, Creating a Culture of Change DEI training, award winning content including newsletter and Power to Change Stories, and The Movement Blog, among others.