All hail to the 2023 college graduates, the class that was sent home from their dorms and classrooms in March 2020 of their freshman year due to COVID concerns.
As commencement season peaks, wisdom rings from podiums around the country in speeches from illustrious icons offering what they may hope is affirmation at the start of careers.
Read MoreIssue 227 — May 1, 2023
Tell me. What’s the biggest obstacle you have faced on your path to leadership?
Here’s a secret for you.
*There are no obstacles. Only opportunities.*
Read MoreOne hour a week for 13 weeks is worth spending on the future you create for yourself.
“This is about zeroing in on the tangible thought process leaders need to move up in their careers,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, and creator of the mastermind series, “Intentioning: How to Transform Your Dreams to Reality with the Power of Intention,” launching March 23 and running until June 15.
Read MoreIssue 214— December 12, 2022
“Say what you want out loud.”
That was the most quoted takeaway from the fireside chat interview between Morning Joe co-anchor and founder/partner with Forbes in the “Know Your Value” initiative, Mika Brzezinski and NBC’s Today Show cohost Hoda Kotb at the gathering of women chosen for Forbes 50 Over 50 2022 on December 8 at Forbes’ New York headquarters.
Read More“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..
Read MoreYour internal obstacles are as powerful as your external obstacles at preventing you from realizing your full potential. But there are key strategies to overcoming both kinds of barriers.
Hope Timberlake, coach, trainer and author of Speak Up, Dammit: How To Quiet Your Fears, Polish Your Presence and Share Your Voice shared with a virtual audience at the recent 2022 Power Up Conference: The Big RE, how you can manage fears and get to making impact and change.
Read More“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.
Read MoreCarla Harris has been with Take The Lead from the get-go.
The acclaimed and celebrated Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, author, leader, professional singer and philanthropist was with Take The Lead at its 2014 launch and will accept the 2022 Leading Woman Award this year at the Power Up Conference: The Big RE August 25-26.
Read MoreIt is impossible to be the change you want to see if you are stuck in one Big RE. That RE is REsistance.
REsistance is one of the unspoken differences that separates world-class leaders from everyone else. If you want to stand out from the sea of sameness, you must be willing to get unhooked from resistance.
Is your comfort zone holding you back?
Look, trust me, I know it can sometimes be hard to acknowledge that we’re the ones responsible for making progress (or lack thereof) in our lives, but the good news is we can unlearn that behavior in order to get out of our own way.
Read MoreIt is precisely because she is not a good cook that Merav Kalish founded a national business centered on home-cooked meals delivered to your home.
As co-founder and chief marketing officer of WoodSpoon, Kalish has helped solve problems for both chefs and customers craving home-cooked meals reflecting the tastes and traditions of their own homes of origin.
Read MoreFor a generation or more, women in leadership in the workplace have focused on breaking the glass ceiling.
Now, says Ellen Taaffe, Director of Women’s Leadership Programs at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, it’s time to focus on breaking through what she calls the “mirrored door.”
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