Just Do It: 10 Ways to Make 2025 Your Best Leadership Year Yet: Take The Lead 1/7/2025

It’s a new year, new dawn, new day, but are you feeling good?

For 10 years, Take The Lead has been working to reach the goal of gender and racial parity in leadership across all sectors. So much progress is visible and palpable. But it isn’t all equal just yet.

Knowing that all change begins with each one of us, the suggestion is to take the time to set priorities to make 2025 a breakthrough year personally and professionally. By naming and reaching for these milestones with deliberate intention and action, you improve yourself and set a roadmap for colleagues, management, leaders, supporters and those you mentor.

The Power of Passion and Perseverance To Offer Parents' Keys to Success

By Bursin Advani

People who succeed in education are driven by a passion for unlocking opportunities. I learned this firsthand when I launched my first venture, an English-language tutoring service in Turkey. Despite the challenges, our commitment to student success kept us going.

Just as I started doubting, our first student enrolled. Six months later, they passed their English exam with flying colors, gaining a passport to a world of opportunities. This success led to referrals, eventually supporting hundreds of students in passing exams and accessing the world.

New Year 🥳: Why 2025 Doesn’t Need a New You!

As the calendar turns to a new year, the phrase “new year, new you” inevitably surfaces in advertising campaigns, social media posts, and sales on clothing and cosmetics.
I’ll admit it: I have a negative reaction to that message.
What’s wrong with the old you or me?
Yes, the start of a new year can be an opportunity to set intentions, reframe perspectives, and leave behind habits or experiences that no longer serve us. But even those things that were negative or painful in the past year are part of who we are. They shape us, teach us, and prepare us for what’s next.

RISE UP!
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR FREE GROWTH MASTERCLASS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner in Arizona? Have we got an exciting program for you!

Here is the Eventbrite link to register for a FREE Rise Up 5-session.growth masterclass. Space is limited to 30 people, so don’t wait—register now for this value packed program with all the nuts and bolts you need to grow your business plus Take The Lead’s signature mindset tools.

When: Thursdays from January 30 through February 27

Noon-2 p.m. MT - lunch will be provided

Where: 1800 West Van Buren Street, Phoenix AZ

Great Stuff To Read, Watch

The Good News First:

Jimmy Carter's Gender Equity Legacy
Learn about his commitment.
READ AT FORBES

Rise of Women on Boards
A global shift for the better.
READ AT ECONOMIC TIMES

Women Leaders of 2024
Read more on Boeing leader.
READ AT YOUR STORY

1st Woman To Lead Central Bank
In new Syria government.
READ AT NBC NEWS

Meet Richest Self-Made U.S. Woman

Learn how she got there and why.

READ AT NEW TRADER

The Need To Know News:

Is WFH Harmful to Women?
Impact on women's careers.
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Backing Blake Lively

On her gender harassment.

READ AT NPR

All The Wealthy Ladies
Need adjusments from advisors.

READ AT MARKETPLACE

Defining Why Gender Gap Persists
New research on why.
READ AT NYU

Female Founders' Advice
Learn from their journeys.
READ AT HARPER'S BAZAAR