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Vital voices : the power of women leading change around the world / Alyse Nelson ; [foreword by Hillary Clinton]

by Nelson, Alyse, 1974-

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Jossey-Bass, c2012.

Women in politics

Women social reformers.

Leadership in women.

9781118184776 (cloth)

1118184777 (cloth)

xxiii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.

Focuses on how women around the world are leading powerful change. Shares the stories of remarkable, world-changing women, as well as the story of how Vital Voices Global Partnership was founded, crossing lines that typically divide. For 15 years, Vital Voices Global Partnership has brought together women who want to enable others to become change agents in their governments, advocates for social justice, and supporters of democracy. They equip women with management and business development skills to expand their enterprises and create jobs in their communities. Features interviews and first-person accounts of global leaders, such as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, and Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize-winning Burmese pro-democracy leader, as well as several business leaders. It draws on the work of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, the organization founded by Hillary Clinton in 1997 as a government initiative that transformed into a leading non-profit, which enables a network of 10,000 emerging women leaders in politics, human rights, and economic development in 127 countries. Focuses on the key elements of the Vital Voices Global Partnership organization's five-step model of transformational leadership, including how to find a voice, lead with purpose, cross lines that divide, and more.

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