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  1. Are You an Iron Lady?

    1/19/12 1:03pm by Gloria Feldt
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    Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady -

    The Golden Globe Awards this week featured the most gorgeous dresses I’ve ever seen (yes, I confess to being a fashion watcher) and Meryl Streep winning her 9th Golden Globe, for her extraordinary portrayal of the British rock-ribbed Conservative former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the first and only woman ever to serve in that post.  Read more >

  2. My New Year Revolution: Owning the Power of “Yes”

    1/5/12 11:51am by Gloria Feldt
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    New Years Resolutions Out Revolution In

    Happy New Year! Personally, I like these round numbered years. They make me feel optimistic for no apparent reason. What about you? What’s your frame of mind as you start 2012? As you probably know, optimism—even when unwarranted--turns out to be one of the most valuable of all leadership traits.  Read more >

  3. What Leadership Lesson Are You Most Thankful For? Bonus Gift Edition

    12/16/11 4:31am by Gloria Feldt
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    Serendestiny

    Wow! Thanks, for sharing so many fabulous, and fabulously helpful, leadership lessons that you are thankful for!  With the season of giving in full swing, here are more great gifts of wisdom shared by women leaders. Want to give a gift to others? Post your leadership lesson in the comments section below.   And while you’re at it, post YOUR most burning leadership question for the New Year too.   Speaking of Gratitude  Read more >

  4. What Leadership Lesson Are You Most Thankful For?

    11/24/11 7:31am by Gloria Feldt
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    Thankful Leaders

    This is an advice column where I'm supposed to answer your questions. But this Thanksgiving, I'm shaking things up in my life , so I turned the tables and asked some fabulous women leaders this question: What leadership lesson are you most thankful for? The outpouring of responses made me exceedingly grateful. Not a turkey among them. Herewith a Thanksgiving feast of delicious wisdom you can savor calorie-free—and use all year.  Read more >

  5. Can I Negotiate the Pay I’m Worth in a Down Economy?

    11/10/11 2:55am by Gloria Feldt
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    Equal Pay

    Now that the Paycheck Fairness Act failed on Capitol Hill, what can women do to try to get the pay they deserve, the same pay as men? In this economy, women may fear that aggressive negotiating may cost them a job either before they even have it or while they have it.    Read more >

  6. Unsought Leadership: How Anita Hill Called Out Workplace Harassment and Changed Everything

    10/27/11 11:44am by Gloria Feldt
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    Anita Hill - Leadership (Zuma)

    Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?--John Stuart Mill, 18th century economist If you’re a woman over 40, you’ve probably had an Anita Hill Moment. That aha when you realized those suggestive comments, undesired gropes, and surreptitious ass-pats you’d long endured in the male-dominated workplace had a name: sexual harassment.   Read more >

  7. How Do I Lead When I'm Not in Charge?

    10/13/11 11:27am by Gloria Feldt
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    Leadership

    I get a little nostalgic in October remembering my late parents whose birthdays were this month. So when Bonnie McEwan, president of the public interest communications firm Make Waves, suggested I write about how people in middle management can be leaders, I chuckled to think of one of my father's favorite sayings: Everybody puts their pants on one leg at a time. That conjures up amusing pictures that equalize people regardless of their stature in the formal organization chart.  Read more >

  8. 5 Tips to Thrive in Chaos (What Good Is Vision When You’re Up to Your A** in Alligators?)

    9/29/11 12:54pm by Gloria Feldt
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    leadership vision

    I knew there’d be pushback the minute I dubbed vision the #1 leadership characteristic. "Get real," several readers e-mailed. It reminded me of the cartoon a colleague once gave me, bearing the caption: “When you’re up to your a** in alligators, it’s hard to remember your goal was to drain the swamp.”  Read more >

  9. What’s the #1 Leadership Attribute?

    9/15/11 7:37am by Gloria Feldt
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    Margaret Sanger Vision

    I know I said this column would explore what we can learn about leadership from the presidential candidates’ endless mud-wrestling on our television screens these days. That’s a fascinating analysis I’ll get to eventually—we’ll have plenty of time since the election is still fourteen months away! But when I realized I’d be writing this column on September 14, the birthday of a significant mentor in my life, I chose instead to focus on the most important leadership lesson I learned from her.  Read more >

  10. The Joys (and Occasional Challenges) of Mentoring and Sponsoring

    9/1/11 4:15am by Gloria Feldt
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    Fork in the Road

    A “Heartfeldt” THANK YOU to everyone who read and commented on my virgin column. Your lively responses, challenges, and questions affirm that leadership issues are high on the agenda. Hands down the hottest topic in questions this past two weeks was mentoring.  Such as:  Read more >

Gloria Feldt

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Gloria Feldt
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Passionate for women's rights and leadership advancement, through my books, speeches and workshops, and media. My newest book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power ~ Tools for Leading an Unlimited Life, has been atop Amazon's leadership and feminist theory lists for many months. I looked at why women are stuck at 18% of leadership positions in spite of being 51% of the population, purchasers of 85% of consumer goods, half the workplace, and 52% of voters. The doors are open, so why aren't we walking through them? To help change these ratios, I share the 9 Ways, specific tips and "power tools," for how we can reach parity for our own good and the good of society.

I love speaking to women's groups and conferences. I have also turned the No Excuses Power Tools into a workshop that helps women explore their own relationship with power and create practical action plans for using the power tools to make their own lives and leadership bettter. I'm "the voice of experience", as People magazine said, speaking from where the personal and political meet.

I have two blogs on my website. Heartfeldt deals with issues where the personal meets the political and 9 Ways is an ongoing conversation about, well, the 9 Ways. I'm a media commentator on leadership, politics, women's lives, reproductive and public health, media, intergenerational feminism. My favorite question is always: "So what are we going to do about it?"

New York Times bestselling author of Send Yourself Roses..Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leading Roles; co-written with Kathleen Turner. Previous books are The War on Choice, and Behind Every Choice Is a Story;. Blog/write for Huffington Post, Women's e-News, Truthout, Women's Media Center, Wimn, Elle, and others including my website GloriaFeldt.com and Heartfeldt blog.

I'm also former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, with 30-year career in reproductive justice and movement leadership. My husband Alex Barbanell and I have a combined family of six children and 14 grandchildren.

 

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