This dream has a name.

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This dream of mine finally has a name.  The Center for Girls' Leadership.   Inspiring girls today to lead tomorrow.  I'm just so excited!  What do you think of the name?!

I spent last week attending Leadership Academy in Ohio where I participated in the Facilitator-in-Training program.  I was able to observe other facilitators and I learned so much about my own facilitating style in the process.  Leadership is all about self-development but it's a process.

As for the next steps, I need to finish my strategic plan, budget, and draft the mission and vision statements before October.  Time to go make it happen!  

What is your dream?  What are you doing to make it happen?

Weekend Reading: 9.10.11

Here are a couple articles to add to your weekend reading list:


Leading Muslim Girls Onto the Field:  "Coach Fartun Osman, a rare female professional basketball player in her homeland, has made it her life mission to develop the athletic and leadership skills of Muslim girls, who she says often are overlooked by traditional sports teams because of cultural differences."


Teen Mom Stayed In School:  "Pregnant and frightened at age 15, Bayza Weeks was told that her school, DeLaSalle High, believed in her. She did the rest."


Ladies That Know How to Lead:"These women leave a path of success, leadership and new methodologies behind as they continue to grow rather than destruction, devastation and questions of what is to come."


Power Dressing: "It’s really impossible to come up with a formula for successful political style. It’s all about the wider political, cultural and personal context."


Millenial Women:  "Young adult women are working diligently to chart their own course forward professionally and personally, and their experiences chronicle the under-reported human costs stemming from failed policies and the lack of opportunity. Professional goals, personal plans and the momentum for advancement have either been placed on hold or are at-risk of stalling completely – Millennial women know America can do better."

Sunday Inspiration: 9.4.11

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Weekend Reading: 9.2.11

Here are a couple of articles to add to your weekend reading list:

JCP pulls "Too Pretty To Do Homework" shirt from shelves.

New research says you can spot a future bully by age 1: "There was clearly a subset of babies, as young as age one, whose birthday-party bullying was corroborated by their mothers' reports of anger and aggression - suggesting a general disposition in these children."

Dealing with Teachers: "You have the power to put yourself in a positive light, regardless of how boring or unfair or bad tempered you believe your teacher to be."

Happy Labor Day Weekend!