Empowerment

Women Leadership Interest Survey

Do You Want To Become a More Effective Leader? We are partnering with many organizations to obtain leadership training opportunities for women. We’d like to partner with yours, too! Take the Women’s Leadership Interest Survey Membership organizations have long been a training ground for women leaders. By offering leadership training through your organization, we believe

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Human Slavery Makes Me Angry

By Dr. Nancy O’Reilly It’s time for all of us to wake up and come together to end the worst of our society’s crimes against human beings. I’m talking about sex trafficking. In my conversation with Linda Rendleman, founder of Women Like Us foundation and one of my amazing Leading Women Co-authors, I was shocked

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Sex Trafficking Horrific, but Successes Transform Lives

Victims of sex trafficking endure horrible abuse and trauma, but their stories can actually end happily. Dedicated people in organizations around the world are saving victims every day, and they need our support. I’d like to share with you some success stories from Washington State, California, India and Nepal. Dream Center Helps West Coast Victims

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared – Buddha Happiness is a big deal. According to Lisa Firestone, Ph.D., like love, happiness is often spoken of like it’s a physical object we must find and snatch up.

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Make Happiness Your Default Setting

In the world today, happiness can be elusive. There are injustices, wars, need, greed, divisiveness, and more at play on a global scale. And that doesn’t even begin to touch the struggles of daily life. While all of these issues affect women and men, it seems to impact women more. In fact, one of the

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When We’re Bullied We’re All Children

Have you noticed that when we find ourselves in the crosshairs of slights, snubs or outright attacks, we suddenly feel small and vulnerable? Our typical instinct is to go hide somewhere—like under the bed.  While that may be a child’s response, full grown women and men can come under attack from a bully at a

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One Woman’s Vision: Women Economic Forum and ALL Ladies League

Dr. Nancy’s 2017 Interview with Dr. Harbeen Arora I’m pleased to announce that I have been appointed to the 2018 Advisory Board of the Women Economic Forum (WEF). I  very much enjoyed the sisterhood I experienced while attending their conferences in New Delhi and Santa Barbara, and look forward to making more networking connections going

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Nice Girls Finish Frazzled

We can probably all agree that we want our daughters to be “nice” above just about anything else. While it’s a given that kids need to be taught to be friendly and have basic manners, many young girls are expected to prioritize niceness over expressing unhappiness or distaste. That pressure to please doesn’t let up for

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Empowering Girls Creates Empowered Women

by Dr. Nancy O’Reilly My mission of empowering women began with my own daughters. I embarked on a college career while my girls were still young to provide them with a role model of infinite possibilities for their own futures. I had wonderful role models in my mother and both of my grandmothers, so I

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