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 by getting personally involved in this new women’s movement. They are both committed to the goal and to using the concrete tools to achieve parity for women in leadership 65 years sooner than it has been predicted to occur at the current pace.
Felicia Davis is CEO of Joyful Transformations, an award-winning leadership consultant, speaker and author of The Leadership Mastery Formula: Create an Authentic Brand that Gets You Noticed, Known & Called Upon! Former Chief of Staff and CAO of Girl Scouts of the USA, Jaclyn Libowitz is now a consultant helping executive teams to develop positive working environments. In October, 2015, Felicia and Jaclyn both became Leadership Ambassadors and graduated from Take The Lead’s “Leadership Power Tools Train-the-Trainer Program.”
What Are the Power Tools?
Gloria Feldt wrote the book, No Excuses! Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power, to remove the last remaining obstacle to leadership parity–women’s learned resistance to embracing their own power. She developed a speaking platform and co-founded Take The Lead Foundation to persuade women to get unstuck and take their rightful place as women leaders. In 2015–realizing she wanted to multiply her efforts and spread the message further and faster than she could alone–she developed this Train the Trainer Program to offer her platform to other women leaders.
As Jaclyn says in this interview, women learn to use Gloria’s 9 Power Tools to help themselves. They release their old ideas of “power over” and welcome their “power to” reach their goals. Felicia says that women don’t feel confident enough about their power to really spark change. They get caught up in comparing themselves to others and can’t find their voice, so they remain stuck. The Power Tools give them something accessible to use to get unstuck and move forward.
Different from Other Workshops
Both Ambassadors talk about how easy it is to internalize The Power Tools. Unlike a workshop that you enjoy with a nice coffee break, they returned to their busy lives after the Train the Trainer Workshop with a set of skills that had become part of a new perspective. The tools gave them the green light to pursue a different way of leading and interacting with others. They were already successful women with decades of leadership experience, but they felt an added confidence and ability to step out in front, gain the support of others and become stronger leaders in all aspects of their lives.
Benefits of Santa Barbara Training
Jaclyn’s goal after leaving Girl Scouts was to work on her own personal development and help other women do the same. She sees the training as a chance to help more women know and embrace their own strengths and at the same time strengthen other women to reach gender parity. Felicia sees the training as an amazing opportunity for women to understand that they can make their voice heard and impact change on themselves and others.
Listen to this interview in which two recently graduated Leadership Ambassadors talk about how learning to incorporate Power Tools into their messages and missions has changed them. Then check out more information about Take The Lead and the upcoming workshop in Santa Barbara hosted by WomenConnect4Good, Inc. and Dr. Nancy April 20-21.
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