Black History Month: 8 Black Women Leaders You Need To Know
In 1976, 50 years after the first celebrations, President Gerald R. Ford made Black History Month official in the United
States. Ford said, it is time to "seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history," History.com reports. This year, the Smithsonian Museum is celebrating Black History Month with leaders in the arts, highlighting the “art of resistance and the artists who used their crafts to uplift the race, speak truth to power and inspire a nation.”
The Power To Have 2024 Be The Year Women Achieve More Leadership Roles By Rosina Racioppi
Since I entered the
workforce more than 30 years ago, I have seen the number of women in leadership roles increase tremendously, but it’s still not enough. As managers and mentors, what can we do to encourage our female employees to grow and step into more influential roles? As managers, we play an important role in coaching female employees as they prepare to express concerns or ideas to foster success, helping them understand how to position ideas to be heard.
From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans
What is more fascinating to us humans than ourselves? Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror? Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? Don’t we love seeing our names mentioned, or being tagged on Instagram? Come on, admit it. My iPad drew a small crowd of adults and children alike as I stepped out of my tent with it on the
banks of the Omo River in Ethiopia. We were camping in the home of the Mursi people. They laughed and pointed as they recognized themselves on the screen when I turned the camera in their direction.
Since our founding a decade ago by Gloria Feldt and Amy Litzenberger, Take the Lead Women has helped drive our mission of gender parity by 2025 by helping thousands of women power up their careers and rethink leadership and power.
In this our 10th anniversary year, we look back in pride on some of our work and impact.
Understanding that women needed to re-set how they think about power and leadership, we created a research-based curriculum rooted in changing the power paradigm from historically oppressive power to generative and expansive power.
Based upon Gloria Feldt’s book No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, the goal of the curriculum – and of Take the Lead – is to enable women to embrace their power with authenticity, achieve higher intentionality for leadership, and, along the way, create more joy.
To reach and empower as many women as possible, Take the Lead was among the pioneers of online learning with the creation and launch of our first online course, “The 9 Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career.” Developed years before online learning was as pervasive as it is today, this online course was (and is) especially relevant for midcareer women looking to “power up” their own careers and change the power paradigm.
Take the Lead continues to be a leader in meaningful trainings and conferences. Learn more on our website and join us for the launch of our anniversary year with a virtual event.
Registration is free, but sponsorships are invited to help us continue to “power up” women: $1,000 (Boosters) - $2,500 (Partners) - $5,000 (Champions) - $10,000 (Sheroes/Heroes)
Women, Power, and Leadership:
A Conversation with Gloria Feldt and Gloria Steinem, Facilitated by Jamia Wilson
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.
