Posts Tagged ‘women in business’
Women Beyond The Tipping Point
Disrupting the status quo to drive gender parity and rid the workplace of gender inequities The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire. – Malcolm Gladwell In February 2016, I chronicled that we were reaching a tipping point for women’s issues in the…
Read MoreThe Man Code. It’s Real, And It’s Pervasive.
Is It Affecting Your Culture? You know it’s true and pervasive in our culture and organizations. Man up. Suck it up. Be tough. There is a man code that guides men’s actions, both in and out of the office. You know what these are. Masculine norms are certain behaviors that boys are taught as children…
Read MoreInterview with Jenna Wolfe: Women at the Tipping Point
Jenna Wolfe invited me to discuss “Women at the Tipping Point … is Corporate America Ready” on the Jenna Wolfe Show. Explain to us what exactly you perceive to be “the tipping point”? During the interview, we talked about the “the tipping point”, women’s rising voices and…
Read MoreThis Father’s Day Give Your Daughter A Gift
Women in the Workplace: 10 Things Fathers of Daughters Can Do to Advocate For Women Women’s leadership advancement is stuck. Real change with a sense of urgency will never take place until fathers of daughters realize the responsibility they have to be change agents. We can talk about the business case, strategies and talent initiatives…
Read MoreWhat Mad Men Teaches Us About Male Leaders
It’s going to be terrible to say good-bye to Mad Men, but let’s tip our hat to all the gruesome realities of the sixties and seventies’ workplace the show has exposed us to. Joan and Peggy may be outstanding female employees, but their journeys have been anything but smooth. Particularly Joan, whose bumpy ride through…
Read MoreCelebrating the Legacy of a Male Feminist: Dave Goldberg
By now we have all heard the sad news this week of the passing of Dave Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey and Sheryl Sandberg’s husband. Goldberg, 47, died unexpectedly Friday, after sustaining severe head injuries after falling off a treadmill, while on vacation with his family in Mexico. As tributes poured in from Silicon…
Read MoreConfession: Why I Wrote WHY WOMEN
Jeffery Tobias Halter’s book WHY WOMEN – The Leadership Imperative to Advancing Women and Engaging Men is available now on Amazon. I’m frequently asked, what are you hoping to achieve with your book WHY WOMEN? What are your goals? I wrote this book is to generate powerful conversations and drive a sense of urgency to change…
Read MoreMemo To Men: Just Do It for Your Daughter
Advocate for women in the workplace. Your daughter is counting on you. More and more, organizations are realizing the importance of male engagement in their efforts to advance their women’s leadership initiatives. Simply stated, women will never obtain gender parity without the active advocacy of men. The business case for women’s leadership is an easy…
Read More10 Tips from Highly Successful Women
Women’s History Month – Speaker As a prelude to Women’s History Month, I was invited to moderate a #VivaWomen panel on Navigating the Career Labyrinth at Razorfish Atlanta. VivaWomen is a global internal network for the women of Publicis Groupe. The goal is to unlock the full potential of women in the workplace, the marketplace,…
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