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Head Shots & Bio Contact Gloria Gloria Speaks Speaking Topics Contact Gloria to Speak Quotes That Inspire Me Press Room Media Inquiries Featured Media Video Podcasts Articles Newsletter No Excuses About the Book Media Buzz 9 Ways Blog Heartfeldt Blog Events Upcoming Events Recent Events Speaking Event ArchivesThis Blog is No Longer Active… by Gloria Feldt on March 17th, 2014 in Uncategorized … but please join me and continue the conversation about No Excuses — 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power” and many other topics on the Heartfeldt Blog! Read the full article... Tagged as: { Comments Off on This Blog is No Longer Active… comments } Women’s Equality Day and the Civil Rights March by Gloria Feldt on August 26th, 2013 in 9 Ways Blog It was all over the news for days. Every pundit, every political talk show, every newspaper running big retrospective spreads. Op eds galore, and reminiscences of what it was like to march together toward equality. Today, August 26 is Women’s … Read the full article... Tagged as: Civill Rights Movement , Suzanne Braun Levine , Take The Lead , women’s , women’s leadership { Comments Off on Women’s Equality Day and the Civil Rights March comments } Stuck? Change Your Relationship With Power by Gloria Feldt on July 21st, 2013 in 9 Ways Blog Do you feel stuck in your career? Need a boost of inspiration and some practical tools to set and reach your next goal? Join us for an exciting interactive webinar Gloria Feldt’s 9 Practical Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career led … Read the full article... Tagged as: leadership , power , women { Comments Off on Stuck? Change Your Relationship With Power comments } Stuck? Meet Jake and the Power of Letting Go to Move Forward by Gloria Feldt on July 8th, 2013 in Inspiration , Leadership , Power , Power Tools , Webinar I’m just back from a great vacation in Croatia, Petra, and Israel . Seeing so many beautiful and historic places, I vacated my mind, let go of worries Read the full article... Tagged as: 9 Ways power tools , empowerment , leadership , letting go , Take The Lead , vacation , webinar , women and leadership , women and power { 2 comments } Dana Kaplan: How Community College Helped Her Change Careers by Gloria Feldt on May 10th, 2013 in Inspiration , Leadership , No Excuses , Power , She’s Doing It , Workplace Most of our talk about women’s career advancement seems to focus on elite colleges and high profile professions such as corporate leadership. Yet there are many jobs open to women who want to try less obvious routes to career success. AAUW has long been a leader in workplace advancement and pay equity for women. Their recent research into the higher student loan debt burden women experience due to the gender pay gap found that many women – more than 4 million – view community college as their best, and most affordable, option after high school. Dana Kaplan’s story of how she succeeded in a typically all-male field is a fascinating example of how community colleges can help women change careers or to gain the skills they need to advance in any chosen profession. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Like a lot of recent graduates, Kaplan had trouble getting work in her chosen field — philosophy — after college. She realized she needed a change when she found herself stuck 9 to 5 in a cubicle. I couldn’t stand it.”Or, if you’re an auto mechanic and 2011–12 AAUW Career Development Grantee Dana Kaplan, try something completely different! I asked Kaplan how she made the jump from one career to the next. I always knew I wanted to work with my hands,” she said. For a while she considered going into construction, to which people generally responded, You’re too smart; you’re too pretty [for a job like that].” Read the full article... Tagged as: leadership , No Excuses , power-to , women , women and leadership , women and power { Comments Off on Dana Kaplan: How Community College Helped Her Change Careers comments } Sandberg: Are You Bossy or Merely Showing Leadership Skills? by Gloria Feldt on April 15th, 2013 in 9 Ways Blog , Gender , Leadership , Workplace I shared this photo of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg from the Take The Lead Facebook page (please go like the page right now, so that Take The Lead will earn a dollar! ) onto my own Facebook page. It has sparked an interesting and somewhat contentious conversation Read the full article... Tagged as: facebook , leadership , leadership skills , Lean In , LeanIn.org , Sheryl Sandberg , women and leadership { 5 comments } She’s Done It: Betty Friedan, Sheryl Sandberg, and You by Gloria Feldt on April 3rd, 2013 in Create a Movement , Leadership , Power Tools , She’s Doing It Consider this your Women’s History Month bonus post. In the heated contemporary debate about whether Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s exhortation to women to Lean In will help women in less elevated positions, Ruth Nemzoff , Resident Scholar at Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and author of Don’t Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws Into Family reminds us that this dispute is hardly new. You could substitute Sandberg” for Friedan” in most of Nemzoff’s article. And the takeaway lessons for women remain the same too. Let’s not waste our time denigrating Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique because it focused only on the problems of affluent women, rather, let us praise her for starting a revolution. Read the full article... Tagged as: 9 Ways power tools , leadership , She’s Doing It , women and leadership , women and power , women’s history , Women’s History Month { 3 comments } Women’s History Month: The Many Takes of Women in the Entertainment Industry by Gloria Feldt on March 27th, 2013 in Employ Every Medium , Gender , Leadership , Power , Power Tools Making a box-office success movie or TV series without a woman in a sexualized or type-cast bimbo role has historically been hard to impossible. (ReadLeadership Fictions:Gender, Leadership, and the Media ”, Take The Lead’s special report on how media influences women’s perceptions of themselves as leaders and others’ ideas about them for some shocking statistics.) That’s why women today who create media by producing, writing, and directing are of the utmost importance to creating the future of our choice. Some women in leading roles on and off screen—like Tina Fey , Amy Poehler , Lena Dunham , and Shonda Rhimes —use their writing to make women the protagonists of their stories. Their takes on what those roles mean to women and feminism, however, are quite diverse. Read the full article... Tagged as: leadership , women , women and leadership , women and power , women’s history , Women’s History Month { Comments Off on Women’s History Month: The Many Takes of Women in the Entertainment Industry comments } Women’s History Month: How Rosabeth Moss Kanter Led the Way for Women in the Workforce by Gloria Feldt on March 25th, 2013 in Define Your Own Terms , Know Your History , Leadership , Power , Power Tools , She’s Doing It I remember how excited I was to discover Rosabeth Moss Kanter in the early 1980’s. She was one of the few females writing about leadership and organizational change management. I hungrily devoured The Change Masters as a relatively new nonprofit CEO navigating roiling changes in the healthcare and political landscape while learning to lead a complex organization toward continued growth. This distinguished Harvard Business School professor’s influential theories about change in the workforce have permeated much of the thinking about organizational change. And unlike the men writing and teaching about it, Kanter infused her work with a lens on one of the biggest workplace changes of the 20th century: women breaking through workplace glass ceilings. Kanter, former editor of Harvard Business Review and author of 18 books, has been named one of the 50 most powerful women in the world” by the Times of London, and the 50 most influential business thinkers in the world”...