This Thursday at 3PM ET. Wonder Wendy Farrell and Felicia Davis live on LinkedIn.
Power Tool #4: Embrace Controversy. What it costs. What it pays.
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This Thursday at 3PM ET. Wonder Wendy Farrell and Felicia Davis live on LinkedIn.
Power Tool #4: Embrace Controversy. What it costs. What it pays.
Join us live. buff.ly/u6g1cls
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In 2013 women held 18% of senior leadership positions. Today almost 30%.
Progress. Fragile progress. The headwinds are real.
Take The Lead's 2026 Impact Report is here. 12 years. 5,000+ women. The work is not done.
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Staying quiet feels safer. But silence has a cost.
Power Tool #4: Embrace Controversy, Navigate It, Don't Run From It.
The women who changed things didn't avoid the hard conversations. They started them.
84% of workers say their employer should help them manage financial challenges. Among Gen Z: 95%.
A raise helps. It is not enough. Leaders who ignore the economic reality their employees are living are already losing them.
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Carla Harris said it at the Take The Lead Challenge in 2014 and nearly 300,000 people have watched it since.
"Fear has no place in your success equation."
Still true. Watch the full talk at buff.ly/OF1wmTi
Taylor Swift has a new single dropping. We're resharing a piece that asks the harder question: women win awards in music but the gender divide across all regions still runs 70% male to 30% female.
Awards don't close gaps. Leadership does.
Power Tool #3: Use What You've Got.
What you need is almost always already there. The gap isn't resources. It's the courage to see them and use them.
Power unused is power useless.
Young. Bold. Unstoppable.
Power Up 2026 highlights are here. Which leadership trait matters most for the next generation?
Women own 43% of U.S. businesses. They still receive a fraction of venture capital.
Digital financial tools are beginning to change what is possible. Read the full story.
Whoever sets the terms of the debate usually wins it.
Power Tool #2: Define Your Own Terms, First, Before Anyone Else Does.
If you don't name it, someone else will. And they won't do it in your favor.
I worked alongside Gloria Steinem for thirty years. Her antidote to fear was never bravado or certainty.
It was hope through collective action. That is the idea Take The Lead was built on.
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Power is just energy. You are the source.
Something magical happens when women shift from oppressive power over to generative Power TO.
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Labor Day was never just about a day off.
Women still earn less, lead less, and are credited less for the work that holds everything together.
This Labor Day we're not just celebrating work. We're naming what still needs to change.