Claudia Chan’s Vision: Number One Leadership Attribute
Last summer just about this time, I received an e-mail out of the blue asking me to be interviewed by someone I’d never heard of for a women’s lifestyle website that hadn’t yet been created. And by the...
View ArticleWhy Women Must Change Our Narrative to Break Through to Leadership Parity
A basic tenet of Take The Lead is: It’s time for women to write ourselves a new narrative if we want to break through the stuck place and reach leadership parity by 2025. So when asked to write for the...
View ArticleLeadership Fictions: Gender, Leadership and the Media
Women are half the population, earn nearly 60% of college degrees, are 47% of the workforce and represent 53% of voters.[1-3] Although women have broken almost every glass ceiling at least once, women...
View ArticleJustice Sonia Sotomayor: The “Wise Latina” Makes History Intentionally
This Women’s History Month, I want to pay special attention to women leaders who are making history today. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is one woman who is not only making history; she is...
View ArticleWomen’s History Month: Why Sally Jewell as Secretary of the Interior Could be...
Sally Jewell is a one-woman powerhouse. The REI CEO has just been approved by a bipartisan United States Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee by a vote of 19-3, according to the New York...
View ArticleHow I Leaned In Too Much
Take The Lead and Lean In have much in common and complement each other well, as Sheryl Sandberg and I agreed when we spoke about collaborating before her blockbuster book launch. It’s exciting that...
View ArticleNew Webinar! Take The Lead Teaches: Gloria Feldt’s 9 Practical Power Tools To...
Calling all women! Take The Lead is offering our first webinar, and we are eager to tell you all about what it can do for you! It’s “Take The Lead Teaches: Gloria Feldt’s 9 Practical Power Tools To...
View ArticleThe Women’s Internet History Project: Looking Back to Help Move Forward
Power Tool #1 Take The Lead co-founder and president Gloria Feldt will share in our upcoming “9 Practical Power Tools to Advance your Career” webinar series (register here now if you haven’t already)...
View ArticleNotice! Leadership Power Tools Webinar Postponed
We want to thank each of you who expressed interest in Take The Lead’s first webinar series, “Gloria Feldt’s 9 Practical Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career.” We decided to postpone the...
View Article5 Ways to Get More Comfortable With Chaos
“Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.” –Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche I don’t know anyone who enjoys chaos. Most of us don’t go seeking it out, we aren’t thrilled to encounter it. Even for...
View ArticleFree Webinar: 3 Surprising Power Tools For Women To Accelerate Your Career
Join us live on June 18 with Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead and Best-Selling Author, Gloria Feldt. Please email friends and family who may be interested in participating in this free...
View Article9 Practical Leadership “Power Tools” For Women To Accelerate Your Career Webinar
Thank you for supporting Take The Lead’s mission of leadership parity for women. Please help us by forwarding this webinar invitation to every woman you know who might benefit from it and by sharing...
View ArticleWhat Does Money Mean to You?
Peter Buffett, son of billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett, wrote a brave column for The New York Times last week cautioning against what he calls “the charitable industrial...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Gender Equality Room: Masculinity
Just as women and girls are expected to follow ridiculous, degrading and constricting ideas of what it means to be feminine men and boys face, albeit different, but just as restricting expectations...
View ArticleMiss America: Celebrating Diversity Through Cultural Competency
Via Michael Loccisano / Getty Images, taken from BuzzFeed To be honest, I don’t even watch the Miss America pageant. On Sunday night I was snuggled up on the couch watching the season finale of The...
View ArticleThe Upsides and Downsides of Feminine Leadership
A recent survey of 64,000 people in thirteen nations showed that two thirds think “the world would be a better place if men thought more like women.” The survey’s authors, The survey’s authors, John...
View ArticleYour Leadership Isn’t About You
“Women are the largest untapped resource in the world.” -Hillary Clinton I recently participated in a Skype meeting with community organizers from Turkey, Zimbabwe, and Germany who had pulled together...
View ArticleA vision, a goal, and some mustard: Women’s leadership @ ASU
When I was 15, I had my first lesson in the power of working together to make systemic change. I attended high school in Stamford, a small Texas town with only two places teens could gather for...
View ArticleWhen Will Women Rule the World?
Image via Wikimedia Commons World leaders have long recognized the value of empowering women, for their sake and to help achieve such long-term social goals as eradicating poverty, educating children,...
View ArticleTrick or Treat for a New Halloween Costume
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. That’s me in the red. Halloween is probably my all-time favorite holiday. I love costumes and going all-out on the delivery of the identity of the character I am dressed as....
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