Posts Tagged ‘Women’s Leadership’
Fantasy Football, Women and Networking
FACT: Women now account for more than 20% of all fantasy football participants. On a recent flight, I was re-reading Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean-In, when I glanced at the women next to me and she was reading ESPN’s Fantasy Football Preview. We shared a laugh that she was reading about football and I was reading about…
Read MoreLessons From The PayPal Gender Equality Panel Debacle
3 things companies need to do to get serious about advancing women Let’s give PayPal an A for effort and a C- on execution on their women’s initiative. In case you missed it, late last month Paypal announced a Gender Equality and Inclusion in the Workforce Panel. Â The only problem was the panel consisted of…
Read MoreWhere Are All the Female MBA’s? (Part 2 of 2)
Where Career Aspiration, Advancement, and Talent Management Meet Reality An MBA is often seen as a critical element for leaders to move up to the C-Suite. In Part 1 of this series, I explored the role an MBA in the pipeline to C-Suite and also interviewed a typical high-potential woman who is seeking an MBA to…
Read MoreWhere Are All the Female MBA’s? (Part 1 of 2)
Alert: Women Business Leaders Missing in the Pipeline to the C-Suite I was recently asked to keynote a Women’s Leadership event for the Georgia Tech MBA Women’s Alumnae Network. Georgia Tech is an amazing institute, and from a full disclosure standpoint, I am the proud father of a graduate. In my work on advancing women and engaging…
Read MoreThe 4 Things Your Company Needs to Do to Advance Women (Part 4 of 4) – Have the Will!
Have the Will to Change. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi* In the past several months I have attended over 15 women’s leadership events and witnessed over 5,000 leaders (women and a number of…
Read MoreThe 4 Things Your Company Needs to Do to Advance Women (Part 3 of 4) – Lead!
Yes, there are only 4 things organizations need to do to advance women. “If you were told it would take over 50 years to achieve a business objective would you accept it?” – Ken Chenault, CEO and Chairman, American Express #womensforumny. This remark was one of the opening salvos of the New York Women’s Forum Breakfast…
Read MoreThe 4 Things Your Company Needs to Do to Advance Women (Part 1 of 4) – Listen!
Yes, there only 4 things organizations need to do to advance women. In the past few weeks, I have attended over 15 women’s leadership events and witnessed over 5,000 leaders (women and a few brave men) talking collectively about how to advance women. Big name companies such as The Coca-Cola Company and Walmart at the…
Read MoreAre You Really Listening to Your Biggest Customer – Women?!
Are Your Male Store Managers Gender Aware? I have been consulting with a very progressive international grocery chain to develop and implement a fully integrated women’s leadership strategy. Currently, our work is focused on the front lines of their business – the retail store manager. As part of the strategy, we created engagement groups for…
Read MoreWho Gets Women? Utah Does! Yes, Utah!
Utah Launches ElevateHER Challenge Earlier this month I had the pleasure of helping Utah launch the Women’s Leadership Institute’s ElevateHER Challenge – a joint government/business coalition to advance women’s Leadership and workplace equality. With this progressive move, Utah joins Massachusetts as only the second state in the country to launch such an initiative. The power…
Read MoreA Roundup of Upcoming Speaking Events
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks since my book WHY WOMEN – The Leadership Imperative to Advancing Women and Engaging Men came out and the response has been tremendous. Let’s keep the conversation going on what men need to do to advance women’s leadership in the workplace. I’ll be speaking in several cities over the…
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