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Are you ready to Go Lead? Register for our Spring 2017 Training Series

Go Lead Idaho is presenting three must-see workshops in April and May 2017 to help you “lead” in all areas of your life!

Workshops will be on Tuesdays and last one hour to accommodate your lunch hour. Cost is $25 per workshop and includes lunch or $60 if you sign up for all three! All workshops are at Boise City Hall in the Council Chambers. Registration is limited so don’t delay or you will miss out! #FOMO

Leading in a Toxic Environment by Rochelle DeLong

Toxic sludge or a toxic work environment? Either is a killer. Learn how to cope and lead when you are surrounded by bad ju-ju and grumps. Workshop by Rochelle DeLong, President of Consilio Business Managers and Gallup StrengthsFinder Certified.

April 25, 2017: You’re Worth It. Leading by Asking for More Money by Stacie Dagres

You’ve heard the song, “Baby You’re Worth It,” but do you believe it? Learn how to effectively ask for more money and help close the gender wage gap. Workshop by Stacie Dagres, Salary Coaching for Women.

May 9, 2017: Leading by Being Well: Why Health Helps Your Career by Cathy Light

Learn why taking care of you will positively effect your career performance and trajectory. Workshop by Cathy Light, CEO of Lideranca Group.

 

 

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Go Lead Idaho Presents a Night of Inspiration and Celebration

Go Lead Idaho Presents a Night of Inspiration and Celebration  

March 13 event features national speaker Kathy Groob & Inaugural Leadership Awards

BOISE, Idaho –  Go Lead Idaho is proud to present a night of inspiration and celebration at its annual spring event Leading In on March 13 at the Riverside Hotel.

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Founded in 2010, Go Lead Idaho (http://www.goleadidaho.org) is committed to engaging women in leadership and civic participation through active involvement in the private, public and non-profit sectors.

The night features Kathy Groob, businesswoman, former elected official, political consultant, author, speaker and advocate for women’s issues. Groob inspires and motivates with stories of successful women creating and building their legacies while lending a hand to other women. She is the founder of ElectWomen (http://electwomen.com) and author of Pink Politics.

In recognition of the impact of involvement, Go Lead Idaho will also present its inaugural awards:

The Brenda Maynard Walters Award
Honoring those who keep their elbows down and reach their hands out. Those good sisters who lead with collaborative spirit over divisiveness; who see the good in the hard task and the hard work; who are leaning in while letting others lean on them for support.

Go Lead Early
Recognizing the emerging voices, the school-aged young women who don’t let age define the impact they can have by being vocal and visible and leading early.

The Idaho Woman Citizen
In the spirit of the state that was one of the first to adopt suffrage, honoring a woman who has worked towards the advancement of a public issue for the betterment of the state and its people.

The evening is possible thanks to the generous support of Platinum Sponsor Wells Fargo and Gold Sponsor Perkins Coie.

“Wells Fargo’s commitment to helping women succeed financially is longstanding, and women are an invaluable part of our company’s culture and leadership. About two-thirds of Wells Fargo team members are women, which includes regional, area and market presidents, as well as top-ranking senior executives,” said Don Melendez, Wells Fargo Idaho Regional Banking president. “Our commitment also includes supporting women as business owners and working with organizations that share our vision. Go Lead Idaho’s effort to get women more involved in leadership and civic roles goes nicely with our focus on women as critical members of our organization and community.”


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Leading In – A Night of Inspiration and Celebration

When: March 13, 2014
5:30 pm Reception
6:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner & Program
Where: The Riverside Hotel (2900 W Chinden Blvd, Boise, ID 83714)
Cost: $45 (includes dinner and drink ticket)
To Register: http://www.goleadidaho.org/
Registration Deadline: March 9

About Go Lead Idaho
Go Lead Idaho is an organization comprised of professional volunteers from various industries believing that adding women to leadership and policy-making roles in public office, board and commissions, private industry and non-profits will enhance the long-term health and wealth of the State of Idaho and our communities.  We are committed to engaging women in leadership and civic participation through active participation in the political process, public office, public policy or advocacy. For more information visit http://www.goleadidaho.org/

 

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Women & Leadership: Idaho Women Pacesetters

While the Andrus Center’s Women & Leadership conference has primarily packed the stage with national women leaders at the podium from business, non-profits and media, the final panel of the event featured a collection of Idaho Women Pacesetters.

Among them:

Cherie Buckner Webb | Idaho State Senator

Linda Copple-Trout | Former Chief Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Nancy Lemas |  President and CEO, Lemas Investment Group

Dee Sarton | KTVB Anchor

Luci Willits | Chief of Staff, Superintendent Tom Luna

How do you define your success?

Justice Copple-Trout – Being the first Chief Justice, it demonstrated to women and especially female law students, that it was indeed possible. I encourage all of you to do what you think would be important to accomplish.

Dee Sarton – Being able to be in an industry where I was able to do important work, and to be part of telling the story. I started out trying to be a man-woman in the media and then became a woman in the media with a female perspective, perhaps different, perhaps the same but important that it is at the table. The female perspective is not only valid, it’s important.

Nancy Lemas – I know I’ve made a difference in all the industries I’ve been involved in. I was often the first women in those positions in the industries I worked in. Through my success, I have opened doors. Also, how many times I’ve been knocked down over the years, picked myself up and dusted myself off and moved forward. What I was sure to do with my children growing up, was always put a mentor in front of them. With my daughters, seeing women in positions of professional leadership.

Luci Willits – Success has meant survival. For women, the days are long and the years are short. If you survive and are a survivor you are successful. If I can make a difference for my children and your children then life is a beautiful thing.

Cherie Buckner-Webb – I have this amazing heritage, an inheritance – of all the women who came before me and the sisterhood of the women empowering and supporting me by my side. Success is being here today and being able to pass that on. Success for me is that I learned some lessons. I need to show up, stand up, speak up and sometimes, shut up.  (Makes me think back on her keynote at Go Lead’s Spring Conference a few years ago)

Other insights shared:

Cherie Buckner-Webb – As women we need to learn how to have conflict. There is no term like “cat fight” for men. Let’s learn how to have conflict. Sometimes the answer is ‘no’

Nancy Lemas – We can’t take conflict personally in businesses.

Luci Willits – I never felt like I had to behave like a man. I’ve often felt pressure as a young, married mother and the choices I made. I have learned to embrace that and to make that part of me and bring that up in business and to be true to my values.

Dee Sarton: I do see myself as a role model, because I interact with so many young women who come through our station. And I think it is a wonderful thing to think I’ve been part of such a change in our society. Young women must figure out how to balance career and family, if family is important to them. As a role model now, what I hope I can impart is doing the job – but also ‘doing your life’  – and important that is. (2 degrees of separation, Luci interned with Dee while in college and through having that work/life conversation with Lee, Luci changed her career path)

Luci Willits: Idaho is a very patriarchal society and a very male dominated state. The best thing we can do is to get women in positions of hiring.

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Women & Leadership: Anne Taylor Fleming

The second day of the Andrus Center’s Transforming America: Women & Leadership in the 21st Century event kicked off with an irreverent take on women’s lives by writer and commentator Anne Taylor Fleming titled, Ten Things We Should Tell Our Daughters.

Anne Taylor Fleming is a nationally recognized writer and television commentator. For two decades she was an on-camera essayist for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the author of two works of fiction: Marriage: A Duet and As If Love Were Enough, a deep exploration of family, divorce, infidelity and redemption—a book writer Mark Salzman calls “daring, original, surprising and wise.” Her previous non-fiction book, Motherhood Deferred: A Woman’s Journey, is a passionate exploration of the choices made by women of her baby boom generation. For her TV essays Fleming received a 2006 Gracie Allen award given by the American Women in Radio and Television.

Before she even took the stage, her words were projected to the audience. “It’s strange to realize that one of the dominant battlegrounds in one’s lifetime is not some exotic place like Iraq – or even the war on terror. No, the ultimate battlefield has been the female body.”

Then she launched into her Top 10 list. While it was titled for younger women, it resonated across the generations of women in the room.

Imagine a Big Life
Don’t see barriers, don’t plan for the hitches. Don’t be small, don’t think small, don’t let anybody make you small.

Find Something You’re Passionate About AND Can Get Paid For
Find something that moves you, a reason to get up every day. The point is, do what you want to do and find out how to make money from it.

Find A Cause You Believe In
Something that engages you beyond the boundaries of your work. It’s not just giving back, it’s part of being alive, it’s part of breathing.

Don’t Be Too Nice
Kindness is underrated, niceness is not. It can be a trap. Don’t be too perky.

Hold Onto Your Friends
They are our lifeline. It is the gift. Life gets complicated, but hold onto your friends. Stay in touch – they know your life and they are your soul. Social media is an illusion of authenticity – you want to, need to hear their voices and their tears and their guffaws.

Learn to Live With Your Regrets
How do you assimilate your regrets and not let them tear you down. You don’t get over it, you live with it and move forward.

Beware of the Caregiving Trap  
How much of our self affirmation do we want to draw from caregiving. Do it, but pay attention to your boundaries. Do it with eyes open. We as women need to talk about it – caregiving can be an isolating experience.

Don’t Be Afraid to Make A Fool of Yourself
We get cut off from the fact that we’re supposed to be fun, have fun, be silly. Don’t take yourself too seriously as you are taking the world seriously.

Age On Your Own Terms
60 is not the new 40. It’s great that women are aging with energy and verve, but we give away so much while acceding to that myth. Remember and honor this – you have history, you have wounds, you have wisdom, you have authority.

Get A Dog
All women need dogs. We have so much unused love that gets damaged and siphoned off. Dogs just want to take all the joy and love you can give them.

 

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