Power Up: 11 Reasons Why You Need To Attend Courage To Lead
Now more than ever each one of us needs the courage to
lead.
In a difficult, divisive cultural environment and a complicated economy, leaders identifying as women face silencing, resistance and erasure as funds disappear and companies, organizations and brands recalibrate to maintain.
In organizations experiencing growth, leaders, colleagues, supporters and collaborators need to define ways to strengthen systems for success and encourage everyone in the network to expand by defining today’s evolving winning strategies.
This year’s Power Up Conference 2025 from Take The Lead held on Women’s Equality Day with the theme, Courage To Lead, offers such strategies, solutions, accolades, insights and learnings from an extraordinary group of experts and leaders in order to assist anyone looking to lead with dynamic innovation and intelligent energy.
Growing up in a traditional Eastern European society, I always questioned the rigid expectations placed on women because I could never seem to fit into them. This left me feeling like an
outcast, constantly second-guessing myself and my place in the world. To cope, I made myself small, dimming my light so that others would feel comfortable around me, believing this would help me belong.
3 Reasons To Have #CourageToLead With Optimism in Chaotic Times
When you are confronted with disruption or chaos, which of these is your reaction?
I ❤️ to create chaos & run away.
I embrace chaos to advance new ideas and achieve my goals 🏆.
It stresses me but I calm myself down 😌 and press on.
I hide under my desk until it passes.
I put my head in the sand and pretend it isn’t happening.
If you are already in a leadership role, the obligation to calm the waves for others, providing a unifying optimistic vision of where the organization needs to go next, weighs heavily on your shoulders.
Prioritize. Make the ongoing gender pay gap a priority in your organization with transparency about salaries and pay raises and offer space for everyone to share in pay equity.
WAKE UP YOUR POTENTIAL:
Power Up 2025 Is Going To Be Incredible
This year's Courage to Lead Concert & Conference just got even more powerful.
We're thrilled to honor Christine Brennan as our Leader in Media—a fearless journalist and author who's spent decades asking the hard questions, exposing truth, and demonstrating exactly what courageous leadership looks like in action.
You'll experience breakthrough insights from Christine and other trailblazers who refuse to play it safe.
This isn't just another conference. You'll walk away with:
Real strategies from leaders who've changed their industries
The courage techniques that create lasting impact
A community of ambitious women ready to lead authentically
Hundreds of game-changers who are redefining what it means to lead with courage
Power Up 2025 is where your most powerful self emerges.
Early Bird: $249 (until Aug. 1) | VIP Experience: $1,000
Your most powerful self is waiting. Will you meet her on August 26?
200 Years More To Close $1 MM Pay Gap For Black Women
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research'snew analysisshows a full-time working Black woman will lose more than $1 million over a 40-year career, compared to White men. With racism and sexism bias in play, it can take
over 200 years—until at least 2227— to close this gap. Median annual
earnings for a Black woman working full-time year-round is $44,149, compared to $70,000 for White men.
Take The Lead prepares, develops, inspires, and propels all women of all diversities and intersectionalities to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. Learn more at www.taketheleadwomen.com.
