FEMME LED: Redefining Leadership Through the Women’s Lens
FEMME LED is a collaborative anthology featuring women who are redefining leadership beyond traditional, patriarchal, and performance-driven models.
This book centers women who lead through lived experience, integrity, relational intelligence, and choice — in business, community, creativity, family, activism, and life.
Rather than offering a single definition of leadership, FEMME LED presents a collective reimagining: leadership as it is actually lived by women today.
📖 Book Overview
Leadership has long been defined by systems that reward domination, extraction, and visibility at all costs. FEMME LED challenges those norms by amplifying women’s real stories of leading differently — often quietly, often relationally, often without permission.
Each chapter offers a personal lens on what it means to lead as a woman:
- outside of traditional power structures
- beyond corporate hierarchies
- in alignment with values, care, and sustainability
Together, these stories form a powerful mosaic of feminine leadership in practice.
🎯 Purpose & Vision
FEMME LED exists to:
- Expand cultural definitions of leadership
- Center women’s lived experience as legitimate authority
- Normalize nontraditional, relational, and embodied leadership paths
- Elevate women as thought leaders through authorship
This book is both a reflection and a resource — inviting readers to see themselves as leaders without needing to conform.
👥 Contributing Authors
Contributors to FEMME LED include women who:
- lead businesses, organizations, or communities
- create impact through teaching, healing, advocacy, or creativity
- are navigating leadership alongside caregiving, migration, burnout, or reinvention
- have claimed leadership without titles, permission, or traditional power
Each author contributes one original chapter rooted in personal story, insight, and lived authority.
📣 Intended Audience
- Women leaders and emerging leaders
- Entrepreneurs, founders, and creatives
- Educators, coaches, and facilitators
- Readers seeking alternative leadership models
- Media outlets covering women, leadership, culture, and social change
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A powerful collection of stories and strategies from women in positions of leadership or founders who have turned ideas into thriving companies. Welcoming stories about any aspect of work or life from this perspective.
@Sierra Melcher Anna Dravland Stephanie Mikulasek Corinne Hejin