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Gloria Feldt

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Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker. Her newest book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead launched September 28, 2021 and is available from your favorite bookseller.

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.

Gloria is the bestselling author of five books including in addition to Intentioning; No Excuses: 9 Way Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker. Her newest book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead launched September 28, 2021 and is available from your favorite bookseller.

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.

Gloria is the bestselling author of five books including in addition to Intentioning; No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power , which plus her own real world experience, forms the core of Take The Lead’s programs.

She is 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, Women Economic Forum Circle of Light award, Texas Monthly’s Texas 20, Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award, Diversity Leadership Alliance Diversity Leader Award, and Forbes 40 Over 40.

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, The Daily Beast, Forbes, Fast Company, Time, Huffington Post, Glamour, Elle and Ms. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America and The Daily Show, and an infinite number of podcasts. Her own podcast is “Power TO You.”

Gloria is an awesome chili maker. She and her husband Alex Barbanell live in New York City and Scottsdale, Arizona; they share a combined family of six children and 15 grandchildren, so there is never a dull moment in their lives. She spends too much time on social media and invites you to connect with her there @GloriaFeldt.

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	The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back 4.03 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles by Kathleen Turner, Gloria Feldt (Goodreads Author) 3.29 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female by Willa Shalit (Editor), Maya Angelou (Contributor), Lisa Bernhard (Contributor) 3.70 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power 3.86 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice by Krista Jacob (editor), Gloria Feldt (Goodreads Author) (Afterword), Rebecca Walker (Foreword by) 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind Every Choice Is a Story 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Default to Responsibility: Women's Plight During COVID-19 and the Solution to Reaching Equality by Brielle Valle, Gloria Feldt (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cupcakes and Courage by Jennifer Brunner, Gloria Feldt (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exporting Extremism: How Anti-Choice Policies Threaten Women's Lives Around the World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Without access, rights are meaningless”
― Gloria Feldt

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“Having the right to choose determines whether women will find an equal place at life’s table, whether children will be truly valued, and whether everyone’s personal liberties, privacy, and bodily integrity will be safeguarded against the ideology of the right.”
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“I stood up and asked, "What in the world is wrong with leading?”
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“We are in a season of disruption. We are in a season of rebirth. The two have much in common. What we once thought of as normal will never be again, but both disruption and rebirth provide opportunities to normalize entirely new realities...”
― Gloria Feldt, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good

tags: leadership-development, leadership-quotes, take-the-lead, women-leaders

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