WorkPod: Building Equitable Workforce With Intentioning

Work Pod | Work 2.0 & Future Of Work Upgrades

In this session, Gloria Feldt, Co-founder and president of Take The Lead, talks about her experience in managing and promoting a diverse workplace. She also talks about her best selling book, Intentioning, explaining some of the important concepts therein. Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and an in-demand keynote speaker. She is 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; No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, plus her own real-world experience, forms the core of Take The Lead’s programs. Her newest book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead is available for presale from your favorite bookseller and will be in bookstores by September 28, 2021. Discussion Timeline: 0:58 Gloria's journey. 6:21 Reason for lack of gender diversity in workplaces. 12:34 How can women be more employable? 16:50 Tips to creating a diverse, inclusive workforce. 21:15 How can women break into leadership positions? 25:20:00 Role models for women leadership. 31:17:00 Where does gender diversity begin in an organization? 35:05:00 Steps to put gender diversity into practice. 40:25:00 On "Take the Lead" organization. 45:55:00 Building a cohort for professional support. 54:02:00 Defining intentioning. 58:48:00 The ideal reader for "Intentioning" 1:01:21 Rapid fire. 1:06:38 Gloria's success mantra. 1:08:37 Gloria's favorite reads. 1:11:06 Closing remarks. About TAO.ai[Sponsor]: TAO is building the World's largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World's largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai About WorkPod: Work Pod takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of work, workers, and the workplace. About Work2.org WorkPod is managed by Work2.org, a #FutureOfWork community for HR and Organization architects and leaders. Sponsorship / Guest Request should be directed to [email protected] Keywords: #FutureofWork #Work2.0 #Work2dot0 #Leadership #Growth #Org2dot0 #Work2 #Org2