Submit Your Power To Change Story
Call For Submissions:
At Take The Lead, we are committed to racial and gender parity as our mission. We recognize the importance of stories especially now during the pandemic of COVID-19 and the calls to action to affect ongoing racial injustice. We value your true and original stories and your commitment to employ the power to change not only your individual career trajectory, but also your workplace culture and communities locally and globally.
Take The Lead’s Power To Change Stories will highlight your specific experiences, strategies, insights and solutions to create change where you work and where you are.
We invite you to submit up to 300 words. Your story must be true, original and unpublished to date. Your true stories matter and Take The Lead wants to know more about how you use your power to create movement and change. You may submit multiple stories. We will publish the selected stories in the blog post, weekly newsletter and an upcoming ebook.
As a thank you for submitting your story, we will email you a FREE copy of Chapter 1 of Writing To Save Your Life: How To Honor Your Story, by Michele Weldon, Take The Lead's editorial director.
Your story may answer any of these five questions or address concerns or issues that relate to change in the workplace that you feel are not included here:
1. Tell us about a moment when you experienced or witnessed an example of inequity and you spoke up and took action.
2. Tell us how you spearheaded an action to make a change in your workplace or community.
3. Tell us about ways you are shifting your own attitudes and behaviors in order to make a direct impact for change.
4. Tell us how practices in your field/discipline/workplace make you feel as well as their impact on you and how you will make a plan for changes.
5. Tell us about an individual whom you believe is demonstrating their power to make change and how they inspire you.
We also welcome photos or visuals (you have the rights to) uploaded as a jpg to accompany your story, as well as an original video up to 3 minutes in length that you have created and shared on youtube with a link.
Thank you for sharing your Power To Change Story.
Best,
The Take The Lead Team