by danarubin | Sep 1, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ The speaker had “a genuine case of nerves.” Usually confident when she spoke in public, this time she felt jittery as she approached the stage. It was September 5, 1995, and Hillary Clinton was about to deliver the speech of a lifetime....
by danarubin | Aug 25, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In late summer 1916, campaigners for the woman’s vote hit a wall. After decades of petitioning, lobbying, negotiating, wrangling, strategizing, and thousands of public speeches, women across the nation still had not secured the right to cast a...
by danarubin | Aug 20, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ When Michelle Obama was a brand new First Lady, and lacking in confidence about her strength as a speaker, she turned to Christine Jahnke for for help with the teleprompter. When Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2008, she turned to Jahnke for...
by danarubin | Aug 18, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ At age 16, she stumped for women’s suffrage at a boxing match. One of her mother’s friends had spotted her early talent for oratory and recruited her for the movement. In October 1911, at the Long Acre Athletic Club in Manhattan, more...
by danarubin | Aug 17, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Quick — name a female thought leader in your organization or company. What do I mean by thought leader? I mean someone who’s a recognized expert in her field. Someone who understands your industry and sector and can communicate her knowledge...
by danarubin | Aug 12, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Kamala Harris is not the first black woman to run for vice president — that distinction goes to Charlotta Spears Bass, who accepted the vice-presidential nomination on the Progressive Party ticket nearly seventy years ago. Bass was an activist, an...
