Yesterday, the Aaron’s Women’s Leadership Network (AWLN) hosted its second annual “Lead Like A Girl” program for 13 pre-teen/early teen girls from the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta’s Mimms Club (Cherokee County). The objective of the program is to expose young at-risk girls to subject matters and professional development to which they may not otherwise be exposed so that we proactively plant seeds on options they have for their futures.
They began with an icebreaker for introductions on how to reverse negative qualities into positive qualities, followed by Paige Mamula and Jill Young conducting a session on “Goal Setting,” showing the girls that long term goals are only a set of short-term goals away. They had a pizza party for lunch, followed by a tour of The Studio by Tracy Sackellares, and a session on Information Technology led by Sarah Countryman, David Nolan, and Tracy Sackellares. “We’ve already received an enormous amount of positive feedback from the girls, and the day was a true success,” shared Aaron’s Division Lead Counsel Heather A. Calhoun.

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