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Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience. Feldt is the co-founder and President of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life’s passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by providing breakthrough training, mentoring, and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership. She is the bestselling author of five books. Her latest, "Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead," launched September 28, 2021, shows how we can seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of massive disruption to build back stronger with women at the center of the recovery. Through the lens of women’s stories, it delivers a fresh set of leadership tools, skills, and concepts that help all women reach their own highest intentions, purposefully creating new norms while guiding institutions to break through the remaining barriers to gender and racial parity for everyone’s good.
She was formerly President and CEO of the world’s largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was named by Vanity Fair one of “America’s Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour’s “Woman of the Year,” She Knows Media Inspiring Woman, Women’s eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award, Diversity Leadership Alliance Diversity Leader Award, and Forbes 50 Over 50.
She teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University. Feldt has been widely quoted and published, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes, Fast Company, Time, and Huffington Post, and she has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America, and The Daily Show, and an infinite number of podcasts.
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Why DEI is Still Good Business
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- Women, Power and Authentic Leadership: Secrets every woman should know to lead and live without limits
- 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power: The tips and tools in No Excuses in inspirational keynote only or with a problem-solving and goal setting workshop
- Sister Courage: How Movement Building Principles I Learned on the Frontlines Can Grow Your Business, Break Glass Ceilings and Change the World
- Carpe the Chaos: Five Steps to Thrive in a Time of Change
- No Temple in temple: Why I'm Grateful for Being "Different": Gloria's personal story of growing up Jewish in Texas
- Speaking the Language of Power: Effective Self-Presentation
- WomenGirlsLadies: Gloria appears with a dynamic intergenerational panel of women
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