Two expert trainers have supercharged their efforts to propel women to leadership parity by 2025. They did this by enrolling in Take The Lead’s Leadership Ambassador program, so they can integrate Gloria Feldt’s “9 Power Tools” into their own training and coaching. In this interview, they tell Dr. Nancy their personal stories about impacting change […]
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Leading Women co-author, Dr. Janet Rose Wojtalik strongly believes that parents must wake up to how their messages affect their children. Her work as a teacher and special education administrator,along with her own childhood experiences, have shown her how we actually program our children with what we say to them. Her new workbook, Raising Successful
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Leah Goldstein’s life has more action than a box office hit movie. That’s what happens when you perceive that there are no limits to what you can do through determination, hard work and belief that you can do anything in spite of the obstacles life throws your way. Her memoir, No Limits, tells her complete
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Being able to work well with others is a standard requirement for most jobs today. But a new study suggests that women do not get their fair share of credit for group work, especially when they work with men. This study – reported by Harvard Business Review – looks primarily at women in academia and
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It is a fact that women are largely missing from the top ranks in corporate America. Only 28 percent of senior managers are women, according to Women in the Workplace published last year by McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org. The percentage drops even lower as you go higher up the ladder, with only 24 women CEOs in
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Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, wrote in the New York Times last fall that today’s fast paced, ultra competitive workplace is losing women. She speculates that too many women look at their lives and discover that what was a manageable and enjoyable work-family balance earlier in their careers can no
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What’s the status of gender equality in the United States? According to the United Nations, it’s appalling. While we may feel like we’ve been making strides towards equality, sometimes, we can’t see the forest for the trees. Case in point, a delegation of human rights experts from Poland, the United Kingdom and Costa Rica spent
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The call for “diversity” is being heard around the country a lot lately, and women in the workplace are adding their voices. The problems faced by today’s organizations have become so complex that a diverse range of skills and backgrounds is needed to solve them. After all, no one can possibly be good at everything. No
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I recently had the opportunity to serve on a panel for the 2015 National Diversity Women’s Business Leadership conference in Orlando. While there I had the opportunity to listen to several wonderful presentations, and was invigorated and inspired by so many smart, amazing, and motivated women gathering in one place. My panel, entitled “So You
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Women make great leaders, yet they remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America. According to Women in the Workplace, produced by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company, a wide range of diversity policies and programs hasn’t moved the needle. We need to try something new. Women are starting strong, but for numerous reasons get derailed
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