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Welcome to Women Leading the Way

women leading the wayThank you for taking time out of your busy life to join us on this web site. This is a place where we celebrate the many ways that women lead. Each month we feature a story of a woman stepping up to lead the way - in her community, workplace, country, or tribe. We also offer capacity building activities and resources for nurturing all women in continuing to enhance our leadership skills and extend our influence. Knowing that we amplify our power when we connect with others, this site provides ways for women to learn with and from one another across cultures. We invite you to send stories of women you know who are making a difference in the world, and to submit methods and strategies you find effective in your own work as a leader.

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New Project: Developing Women’s Leadership - Around the Globe

Great News!   We are excited to announce a new project that we imagine will interest women leaders everywhere!

Antioch University Seattle recently received a Grant from the C. Charles Jackson Foundation to fund the Project: Developing Women’s Leadership ~ Around the Globe.

Barbara Spraker will be directing the Project, which will focus on discovering what women in various cultures are doing to develop their leadership strengths, and what more they want to do to enhance their leadership influence and impact.  The Project provides a way for women of different cultures to connect with each other and support each other as we grow - individually, and collectively, as a powerful force for creating positive change in the world.

The Women Leading the Way web site will provide a place to engage with us as the Project emerges and to learn with us as we connect with and learn with and from women in many cultures.  

Please visit the Project page to learn more and to participate where you see opportunities that engage you. 


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About Barbara Spraker

Barbara SprakerBarbara Spraker, an educator, is a catalyst for transformation. She is passionate about drawing out and amplifying women's power.

Our future depends on women's leadership - leadership based on creating space  for diverse voices to be heard, nurturing creativity and compassion, building relationships of trust where shared vision can emerge, and collaborating in action to bring those visions into reality.

Barbara teaches in the Center for Creative Change at Antioch University Seattle and has led capacity-building workshops for women for more than 20 years. Read Barbara's bio >>

Story of the Month

January 2012: Elegant Power - Beauty
in Action

Claudine Zongo illustrates key characteristics of
Women’s leadership - vision, inclusion, collaboration, creativity, tenacity.

ELinor Alexander

Read how she and her colleagues at AProFEn,
(Action Promo-Femme et Enfant) empower
rural women in Burkina Faso, and create strong alliance with traditional leaders as they do so.   Meet Claudine >>


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