The latest women's leadership news, research and advice packaged to fit your life. February 21, 2017: Edition 102
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ORIGINAL CONTENT, FRESH NEWS YOU NEED NOW
#BlackWomenLead: Co-Founder Urges Women Leaders to Engage, Act, Run Kimberly Peeler-Allen is dedicated to increasing black women’s political engagement. TELL ME MORE
Whistle While You Work: Does Loving Your Job Matter? How do you find meaning and joy in the work that you do every day? It's more than attitude. TELL ME MORE
Survey Says: What Women Leaders Really Want Is Flex Time, Authenticity A Gallup poll thoroughly examines the state of the American workforce. What do findings mean to you and to all women leaders? TELL ME MORE
Gloria's Pick*: Seems We Need a Black Women's History Month. "So why has her own work been forgotten?" asks Morgan Jerkins in herNew Yorker article about writer and Harlem Renaissance leader Jesse Redmon Fauset. "A simple answer to that question is that she was a a woman." *Tweet your tips for Gloria's pick to @gloriafeldt. Gloria Feldt is the president and co-founder of Take The Lead.
TAKING THE LEAD. YOUR ACTION OF THE WEEK
Tell Your Story: Your story is your truth. Your truth is your power. Telling your story authentically helps you lead (not follow) your dreams and have an unlimited life.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Celebrate the third anniversary of the launch of Take The Lead with inspiration from Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, in her keynote at Take The Lead's 2014 launch.
GREAT STUFF TO READ NOW
Take The Lead Co-Founder, President Gloria Feldt: Take Risks, Go Big Feldt explains how to make real social change and how you as a leader can be unstoppable. READ IT AT PHILANTHROPY WOMEN Shonda, Beyonce, Iman and More: 14 Black Women Who Changed Finance Follow the powerful contributions of these women who changed the world of business. READ IT AT CNBC What Black Women in History Can Teach Us About Leadership The Women In Mississippi from more than 50 years ago can teach us all today how to lead. READ IT AT MS. How To Get More Women To Run For Office Turns out women respond well to encouragement and positivity. See Jane run. READ IT AT OZY
“I’ve heard women say they don’t want to take a job because they don’t want to be the only woman in the room—but how else are we going to get in the room if there isn’t that go-getter who puts herself forward?"--Ellen Kullman, former CEO of DuPont in Fortune.
JOIN US FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY VIRTUAL HAPPY HOUR With Gloria Feldt, Co-founder and President of Take The Lead and Katie Mehnert, CEO & Founder of Pink Petro, plus other special guests
Wednesday, March 8, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Celebrate International Women's Day live from the HERWorld Energy Conference in Houston where they will chat about the history of International Women’s Day, the exciting new sectors that women are stepping into and what role men can take to increase gender parity in leadership.
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