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Film About Fair Pay Champion Lilly Ledbetter Comes to Chicago May 9 – 16

Lilly Ledbetter famously said, “Sometimes in life, you hit a turning point.” The turning point she hit came in 1998, when someone slipped an anonymous note into her mailbox at work. It told her that her employer of nearly 20 years—Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Gadsen, Alabama—had been paying her about half of what…

Women’s Leadership Center Takes Star Turn in at the Lake Magazine

Comparing it to work by Frank Lloyd Wright and anticipating it will draw visitors from around the country, the Women’s Leadership Center is being celebrated in a full-length feature article in the Spring 2025 issue of At The Lake, a quarterly publication highlighting the lifestyle, culture, people, and history of southeastern Wisconsin. “Leading by Example”…

March is Women’s History Month

Stories make us human. No other animal (that we know of, at least) loves and leans on stories the way humans do to understand ourselves, enjoy ourselves, and tell ourselves the way forward by looking at the road we’ve been on. In March, our love of story gets to focus on women, for March is…

Hillary Clinton’s New Book Honors “Sister Friends”

In Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks about climbing onto a wooden motorboat bobbing on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin early one September morning. “We were all a little wobbly,” she admits. Some of the wobbles came from gobs of celebrating the day and night before…

Movie About Fair Pay Pioneer Lilly Ledbetter Premieres

A story that began as anonymous note scribbled on a paper scrap and slipped into an office mailbox made it to the world stage on Thursday, October 10, 2024, when “LILLY” — a film about the woman whose fight for equal pay led to groundbreaking anti-discrimination legislation — debuted at the Hamptons International Film Festival….

The Future Starts Now: Leadership Lessons from the Sky

The last ten minutes of a basketball game, some sports fans say, are all you need to watch. That’s the real action; everything else is prep and prelude. Not so, say others. What you see at the buzzer — whether blowout or nailbiter — has much to do with the beginning minutes. A similar theme…