Book description
How women around the world are leading powerful change
Women's progress is global progress. Where there is an increase in
women's university enrollment rates, women's earnings, and maternal
health, and a reduction in violence against women, we see more
prosperous communities, better educated, healthier families, and the
preservation of equal human rights. Yet globally, women remain the
most consistently under-utilized resource. Vital Voices calls
for and makes possible transformative leadership around the world.
In Vital Voices, CEO Alyse Nelson shares the stories of
remarkable, world-changing women, as well as the story of how Vital
Voices was founded, crossing lines that typically divide. For 15
years, Vital Voices 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. Their voices, stories, and
hard-earned lessons-shared here for the first time-are deeply
authentic and truly vital.
• 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
business leaders
• Draws on the work of the Vital Voices, 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. These women have gone on to
mentor and train more than 500,000
• Focuses on the key
elements of the Vital Voices five-step model of transformational
leadership, including how to find a voice, lead with purpose, cross
lines that divide, and more
Through the firsthand accounts of trail-blazing leaders, Vital
Voices introduces unforgettable, inspiring women who are shaping
our world.
Alyse Nelson is president and chief executive officer of Vital
Voices Global Partnership. A co-founder of Vital Voices, Alyse has
worked with women leaders since 1996 to develop mentoring and training
programs in over 140 countries and has interviewed more than 200
international leaders. She completed her graduate degree work at
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and she
lives in Washington, D. C.
Vital Voices Global Partnership, founded by Hillary Rodham
Clinton, is the leading nongovernmental organization that
identifies, trains, and invests in emerging women leaders, enabling
them to create a better world for us all. Learn more at www.
vitalvoices. org.
