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  ​Co-Founders of Global Adjustments

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  United State of Women Meeting hosted by the White House

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  iLive2Lead Training in China

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  iL2L International Young Women's Leadership Summit

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  With iL2L participants from South Africa

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  Make It In India Book Launch

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  With iL2L participants from Bangladesh

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  China Leadership Summit 2015

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  Huskey Family

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  The Third Act for Women In Chennai, India

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  iLive2Lead Co-Founders

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  iLive2Lead Summit In Mexico

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About Joanne

Joanne Grady Huskey is an author/speaker and coach. She is Co-Founder and Vice President of iLive2Lead Young Women's Leadership Summit, Co-Founder of Global Adjustments (India); and the American International School of Chennai (India). 

She was for many years International Director of VSA Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. As part of a diplomatic family, she has lived and worked all over the world promoting intercultural understanding and competence. Her life mantra has been "People to People." Her latest work is to inspire young people with stories from around the world.  Check our her books.
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Speaking

Joanne shares her cultural insights and experiences from a rich life living and working overseas in China, India, Kenya, France, Nicaragua and Taiwan. She, also, draws on the unique leadership curriculum she used to train young women to be active players and change agents in their societies world wide. ​
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Speech topics include:
Citizen Diplomacy
Women's Leadership
Cross Cultural Competency
The Third Act for Women:  Finding Joy and Meaning After 50
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iCAN! A Young Woman’s Guide to Taking the Lead 

Our goal in writing this book was to share our “path to leadership” curriculum with young people worldwide—particularly young women—who have dreams they hope to achieve. We especially wanted to reach out to the many young people who didn’t have the chance to attend an iLive2Lead Summit. Don’t let your dreams die! In these pages, we have laid out the steps toward actualizing a full-fledged project. We’ve shown how we developed our program and shared the lessons we learned along the way. Following the steps we’ve outlined, you have a road map to achieve your goals. Work to make them real, give them substance, plan how you will accomplish them, communicate and connect about your ideas, and continue to grow and learn throughout the process. 

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Book Reviews

"iCAN: A Young Woman’s Guide to Taking the Lead is not another rah rah “we should all be leaders!” book. This is a nuts and bolts, how to get it done, book. The authors spent 7years training young women in concrete hands-on leadership skills and worked with thousands of young people around the world through their organization iLive2Lead. They take the example of starting their own NGO and share the steps in their leadership training curriculum with the reader. The book also shares the success of many of the young women with whom they have worked and details some of the leadership summits held on each continent. The goal is to inspire many more young women to think of themselves as players ready to make a contribution to this world.. now, not later."

ELLEN BONEPARTH, Ceo Light My Fire

"iCan! is a brilliant manual which outlines the step by step guide and lessons-learned from the popular iLive2Lead Young Women’s Leadership Summits which ran for 7 years. It is important to mention that what made this program unique was that it was it provided selected groups of young women from around the world high level instruction on why and how to accomplish their dreams. It then thrust them into a world of women leaders and then sent them home with a concrete game plan to actualize a project. Well, now this information is available to all of us in Joanne Huskey and Holly Wescott’s book iCan!. This book takes the reader through a logical and well informed process of leadership development, from how to develop necessary skills to project planning – even using the development of iLive2Lead Organization as a project example following these very steps. The anecdotes and honesty from the authors are insightful. Many of the successful iLive2Lead graduates profiled offer real life context of young women leaders who subscribe to the methods described in this book. Further, they are certainly change makers on the list of “Young Women to Watch” around the world. This book is not only for aspiring young women leaders but for anyone who would like to use their voice to make the world a better place."

BONITA ELLISON

"Holly Rodgers Wescott and Joanne Grady Huskey are the kind of leaders Margaret Mead likely had in mind when she said “Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.” Seven years ago, Holly and Joanne decided to help change the world by providing young women around the globe the opportunity to learn the leadership skills necessary to exert positive influence. They did so through international summits that focused on how to dream, plan, communicate, connect, and act. In their book, iCAN!, they spell out what they did to make their efforts so successful, how they did it and the lessons they learned. As they do, they keep a dual focus on “doing things right” and “doing the right thing,” both critical elements to the well being of our global community. Read the book and you understand leadership development from the inside-out. Follow the recommendations and you will be on your way to providing effective training and coaching. Learn about the iCAN attitude and you will find reasons to be optimistic about the people who will someday lead our world."

RICHARD BUCKLEY

"'iCAN: A Young Woman’s Guide to Taking the Lead' is an inspiring book that shares the passion and talent of the authors, Joanne Huskey and Holly Wescott, with offering leadership training and support for young women. Co-founders of the NGO iLive2Lead, they share their wisdom, experience and journey in developing and leading the trainings they offered to hundreds of young women in many countries. This is a rich guide to leadership training filled with curriculum suggestions, stories and lessons learned, a real can do book. You will come away with a much greater understanding of leadership development, and be inspired in the process. "

KIMBERLY WEICHEL, former CEO of PeacexPeace