Bianca Jagger: A Woman of Uncommon Courage
I am happy to to serve as Master of Ceremonies in welcoming Bianca Jagger to the Americas Latino ECO Festival. Jagger’s name is known around the world. In 1970, she became the first wife of rock star Mick Jagger. However, for many of us here today, she achieved her celebrity status because of her life long work as a human rights activist. Bianca Jagger has been called “the highest paid activist” in the world. Her work defending human rights, ending violence against women and girls, and addressing the threat of climate change has taken her to HOT spots around the glob. To me, Bianca Jagger offers ALL women of all ages, across all countries and cultures a powerful role model of women’s empowerment and courage. In my work as the Founder of the 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Academy which offers the ONLY leadership training programs in the world based on the New Science of the FEMALE brain, and in my role as a Virtual Mentor with the United Nations, I consider Bianca Jagger a great inspiration for the women I work with. As a young girl growing up in Nicaragua, she received a scholarship to study political science in France at the Paris Institute of Political Science. Influenced by the work of Gandhi, she traveled extensively in India. In the mid-1970s, on a visit home to Nicaragua, she was shocked by the oppression and suffering of her people at the hands of the Somoza regime. A few years later, she took part in an event that she calls: “a turning point” in her life. At the time, Bianca Jagger was part of...
Do This Before You Vote
I am often asked by women: “How can one person make a difference?” Here’s how Angela Engel used a blog and a little research time to change the face of politics in the Denver Metro area. Angela is a “voter advocate” who offers clear, logical reasons for her choices. Does your city have a voter advocate, a person you read first before you vote. In giving her *personal picks* Angela begins this way: “This is an off election year so fewer people will be voting. Unfortunately some pretty bad characters can then get elected by small margins of voters. Douglas County is an excellent example. The decisions made by your “elected” school boards impacts your life and the lives of ALL children. If you like art, music and PE, you’ll want to vote. If you believe our youth should have access to school counselors and mental health services, elect good people. If you think teachers should be supported, parents included and children served then please participate in the decision making. Corporations are buying these school board elections in order to sell their products and improve their bottom dollar. Large school board elections in Jeffco, Denver and Douglas County are primarily financed by corporate elites, many whom reside outside of Colorado. (END) Alexia Parks is Founder of 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Academy, the ONLY leadership training program in the world based on the new science of the female...
Evolutionary Leadership: Darwin’s Remarkable Women
If the goal of nations, communities, and corporations is to help solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world today one solution is staring us in the face. Women. Just invite more women into leadership & the decision-making table. Why? The FEMALE brain is hardwired with 10 natural leadership traits. And these 10 special traits hardwired by Evolutionary Psychology in the *female* brain just so happen to be exactly what is needed in leadership at all levels of society in order to manage the complexities of our volatile, interconnected, technology-driven world. How many women are hardwired with these natural leadership traits? ALL women, of all ages, across all countries and cultures. Alexia Parks is Founder and CEO of the 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Academy: Creating A New Model of Leadership Based On The Female...Ready to Go Lead Something? Set Your Own Salary.
In a few weeks, I will be introducing Bianca Jagger at a breakfast in Denver hosted by America’s Latino ECO Festival. According to MassMedia, Bianca Jagger is the highest-paid activist in the world. Over the past year, she pulled in $58 million between September 2014 and September 2015. Ms Jagger’s millions drives home a timely reminder about how the work of women is valued in the workplace. For example, in the 5-hour standoff between Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards and GOP representatives, she was confronted with a question about her salary. This unusual line of questioning at a House hearing prompted me to create a one-minute leadership exercise for women. Are you ready to try it yourself? If so, take a moment to a look in the mirror and ask yourself: “How much would someone have to pay me to take over the job of Cecile Richards?” In the job description, you would be told that as president of Planned Parenthood you would be in charge of an organization that has been providing health care and family planning education to low income women, women in need, for 100-years. Reading between the lines of the job description, you would understand – at gut level – that the job also came with risks. There would be picket lines, there would be fire bombings, there would be death threats. Words would be hurled your way and hit you like a modern day stoning. You would be required to stand your ground. You would be assaulted with steely cold looks. You would be pointed at. You would be singled out. Your job would keep...Women Are Natural Leaders
DEAR ALEXIA You say that women are natural leaders. Are the ones that lead, high achievers, or do these women leaders emerge from events that drive them to it? – | Curious | DEAR CURIOUS, The answer is both. Yes, if the goal is diplomacy, collaboration and cooperation between citizens, communities, and nations, then my work shows that women are natural born leaders. In times of war, men lead. A balance of male-female leadership is what is absent in most HOT spots around the world today. This lack of balance in the U.S. Congress, for example, can create GRIDLOCK. Those women tagged “high achievers” have simply developed daily habits that help them focus on their goals. Those who are driven to lead by certain events have “a fire in the belly” that won’t be extinguished until their goal is met. In both cases, those who are successful leaders set up daily habits that help them focus on their goal. Thanks for asking! | Alexia Parks is the Founder of 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Development Academy. It is the ONLY leadership training program in the world based on the New Science of the Female Brain. That is, training based on how the FEMALE brain actually works....
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