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Your Team: 10 Ways Great Leaders Move Forward From Discord
In a chaotic political
campaign season, it’s all about having the right team, from candidates to social media message branding. Beyond the realm of politics and winning a single election, how do you as a leader in an industry or as an entrepreneur bring together a team of different intentions, skillsets, locations, identities, and career history to succeed for the present and future? Perhaps you are in a new position as a leader, or you are a colleague and team member who is part of a shifting of titles and responsibilities. Holding it all together with purpose and transparency is the mark of a great leader. The puzzle pieces do not need to remain puzzling.
For many small business owners who excel in their specific fields, achieving success in other areas like marketing can be a daunting challenge. As the founder of OPIIA, it’s my mission to empower small businesses to achieve big things. My journey began as a freelancer, offering marketing services to small businesses. I quickly noticed that
traditional companies like law firms and trades businesses lacked the marketing support they needed to thrive. This became even more dire during the challenging times of COVID-19. At a time when the world was falling apart, I wanted to help business owners regain a sense of control. This meant more than just creating marketing campaigns; it involved building long-term programs and training their teams to become passionate advocates for their own businesses.
Women make up 50% of the athletes at the Paris Olympics, an inflection point for women in sports. There’s change in the air for women’s leadership parity on many fronts, with sports on the leading edge of progress. Check out these numbers.
According to studies cited by Korn Ferry, “Fortune estimates that 95 percent of its Fortune 500 CEOs played sports. While only 6 percent of Fortune 500
CEOs are women, the proportion of women CEOs who were athletes is similar — 90 percent of them played sports at some point, and 54 percent played sports at the university level. According to our own leadership-assessment tests Korn Ferry gives top executives, the highest-performing women CEOs distinguish themselves from average CEOs in three ways:”
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Exciting speaker just added: Jenny Nguyen, founder of The Sports Bra, the first bar showing only women’s sports! Hear from inspiring speakers
and honorees such as award-winning author, podcaster and co-chair of the ERA Coalition Jamia Wilson; former Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney; Founder of Women Connect 4 Good Dr. Nancy O’Reilly; founder of The State of Women Anu Bhardwaj; co-CEO of Golden Seeds Loretta McCarthy; actor Kathleen Turner; preventive cardiologist Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum; Black Women’s Collective founder Felicia Davis, and more.
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