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Patricia Jerido

Make Room for Social Justice

Patricia Jerido has earned her MSW, and served over 30 years as an advocate for social justice, so when she founded Leadership Matters Consulting, she engaged her skills to help those well-intentioned people who wanted to do good but needed a road map and guidance to truly make a difference in the world. She says

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A Collaboration Crash Course

How to Join Forces With Other Women (When You’re Used to Going It Alone) Collaboration is an incredibly valuable skill in today’s marketplace, and what’s more, women are naturals at it. But if you’ve always been the “lone (she) wolf” type, you may not know how to get started. Dr. Nancy D. O’Reilly offers 10

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A Woman’s Guide to Winning Leadership

Rebecca Sive is a self-proclaimed fierce and devoted advocate for women’s full participation and leadership in every sphere of public life. She is also a lecturer at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies, where she was the founding Academic and Program Director for Women in Public Leadership and author of Every

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Leadership Lessons from Horses

The transformation of her life and career as took place during her first experience with a horse, recalls Evelyn McKelvie, Executive Coach, author and founder of Equine Coach. She describes its effect on her as both physical and spiritual, to the degree that she felt her emotional body had been given a deep tissue massage.

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Women Lead Best As Women

by Dr. Nancy  O’Reilly Women have developed their leadership skills through everyday actions of nurturing their families and fostering their communities. But somehow, most people don’t think of it as leading. Stereotypical leadership is done by a white man in a suit who tells others what to do. That’s why in the 1980’s when I

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Crystal Quade | Leadership Through Courage

Opportunities for women to step into leadership present themselves less often as invitations and more often as acts of courage. No one asked Crystal Quade to run for State Representative of Missouri’s 132nd district, but when a local non-discrimination ordinance that provided protections for many underrepresented members of her community was repealed in 2015, her

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Do What Gives You Joy

Global Keynote Speaker and Women’s Leadership Expert Holly Dowling chooses every day to do what gives her joy and uses her driving passion to inspire other women to do the same. A crooked path led her from pre-law at K-State, through a career as a cruise director, life as a single mom and a VP

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Reach Out to Help Another Woman Lead

by Dr. Nancy O’Reilly Women keep saying to me, “This is our time. There has never been a better time to be a woman.” It’s true. We have more degrees and opportunities than ever before and, even though we lag behind men in earnings, more women are achieving independent means than ever before. My Leading

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Leading Women Co-Author Releases New Book and Documentary

March is a busy month for my Leading Women co-author Linda Rendleman. Not only does it see the release of her third book, Women Like Us – Together Changing the World, but also the premier of the documentary it inspired, Women Like Us – Three Journeys. One Mission. To Change the World, which is showing

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Women Use Your Power to Persuade

Presentation Specialist, Deborah Shames, is on a mission to help women overcome their stage fright and use their voices to tell their stories.  Deborah is convinced that when women hold themselves back and don’t share their ideas, or run for office or make a difference in an organization, everybody suffers. She wrote Out Front: How

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