Global Tech Leader: Why Collaborating And Supporting Women in Tech Is Urgent

The customer may or may not be always right, but Kristin Naragon tries to always do right by the customer. She also tries always to do right to create gender fairness, equity and inclusion for women in tech.

As VP of global marketing and strategy at Akeneo, a product experience platform for more than 600 companies such as Sephora, Forever 21, Carhartt and more, Naragon works on global strategies for better customer experiences. And after recently receiving $135 million in series D funding for Akeneo, Naragon is on a mission to make that happen.

Positive Results: COO On Creating Your Future With Positive Mindset

“The middle of nowhere.”

That is how Dianna Moore, COO of Hire Runner, business and lifestyle coach and former senior program manager at Boeing, describes the 308-acre site in north central rural Oregon where she grew up.

She was born in in a log cabin her father built for the family where she lived with her parents, older sister, and younger brother. It was much like what was depicted in the “Little House on The Praire,” Moore says, with no electricity, an outhouse, as well as lots of outdoor animals including dogs, cats and horses..

Ellevate Your Career: CEO Maricella Herrera on Defining Your Own Success

After earning her Masters in Business Administration at Columbia University in New York in 2012, following five years working in banking in Mexico, Maricella Herrera was interviewing for a new boutique banking job in Mexico, where she intended to return to live.

Feeling the Burn(out?) Take a 3-Minute Mindset Reset Pause

If you didn’t get a chance to participate in the Take the Lead annual 2-day conference at the Phoenix Biltmore, I highly recommend watching the replay. This event exceeded expectations in providing inspiration, tools and action items for stepping into your most powerful potential. Yet lurking among the conversations spanning all aspects of Diversity and Inclusion, a new shared challenge emerged. In a word; burnout.

Women’s Equality Day: How Take The Lead Delivered Strategies to Power Up For the Big RE

Just one day a year is designated Women’s Equality Day in the U.S.

The other 364 days a year, Take The Lead is also working to prepare, develop, inspire and propel women across all industries and sectors to reach parity in leadership by 2025. And on Women’s Equality Day, August 26, the 2022 Power Up Conference, The Big RE: REthink, REwire, REcreate, kicks off virtually and in person to address the solutions possible to succeed on the path to equity.

Leading Man Award Winner: Vada Manager, Founder, CEO Pushes for Gender Equity, Balance & Fairness

“I believe all business is personal.”

Vada Manager, founder and CEO of Manager Global Holdings, and President and CEO of Manager Global Consulting Group, has spent a lifetime following that mantra.

It is an underlying current in a purposeful and extremely successful global professional life that earns Manager the Leading Man Award presented August 26 at Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference.

It’s Your Turn, Now What?

There is a fire that erupts when women REmember who they are AND know that it’s their time to step up and fully own their authority to lead.

Yes, ’m talking about you because you are that woman!

You are the woman that The Big RE Conference was created for because we know that on the other side of spending two days immersed in the power-packed agenda we have in store for you, you are going to leave knowing what it takes to…

6 Reasons Now Is The Time To Power Up For Big RE: REthink, REwire, REcreate Your Career

The summer of 2022 marks the third summer of COVID-related work complications for millions of women from remote work adjustments to childcare urgencies to workplaces shutdowns, reorganizations and layoffs.

The National Women’s Law Center reports that between February 2020 and January of this year, 1.1 million women left the workforce. Some reinvented themselves as entrepreneurs, others reshaped their lives outside of their careers. Research shows this cultural time, space and economic reality supports shifts that not only bring change, but transformation.

Celebrate The Pivot: Evite CMO on Building A Brand, Changing Careers Post-COVID

Maybe, just maybe, Karen Graham can attribute her new career as vice president of marketing and brand for Evite back to her mom who loved to throw parties when she, her younger brother and older sister were growing up in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

“I’ve always loved events, I’m very social, but I haven’t thought before that my mom loved throwing parties. She went big for birthday parties. So something rubbed off on me,” says Graham, who is in charge of rebranding Evite, the 24-year-old online invitation platform.

Taking Action: How Best To Lead In The Post-Roe Workplace?

Regardless of where the top tier leaders in an organization stand personally on the U.S. Supreme Court revocation of abortion rights in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, employees, contractors, consumers and clients will be affected. Some will be affected severely and most will be women.

Pursue the Vision: Power Up Conference Chair Does What It Takes To Help Others Succeed

The irony is that her vision literally stopped her from pursuing her dream career.

But it is her lifetime as a visionary that enables entrepreneurs and leaders to never stop pursuing their dreams.

Don’t Stop Believing: Anita Hill’s Mission To End Gender Violence Continues

“It is like boiling the ocean.”

Anita Hill, lawyer, advocate, author and professor, explained to a crowd at the recent Chicago Humanities Festival that the enormity of the problem of gender violence in this country is as vast as an ocean. And the process of addressing and eliminating all its forms is as complicated and slow as heating such a vast body of water.

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