Sally Helgesen, World’s premier expert on Women’s Leadership; Author

Sally Helgesen, World’s premier expert on Women’s Leadership; Author

• Sally Helgesen’s latest book, “How Women Rise,” co-authored with good friend and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, will be published in April 2018.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Follow TBCY RSS

Any institution, whether it is society or organization, in the present century cannot function effectively without women’s equal participation in leadership activities. Women create a perspective that brings to competition and collaboration to organizations and teams. Sally Helgesen, World’s premier expert on Women’s Leadership and Author, talks to us about women leadership.

00:34- About Sally Helgesen

• Sally Helgesen’s latest book, “How Women Rise,” co-authored with good friend and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, will be published in April 2018.
• As an author, speaker, and consultant, Sally’s mission has always been to help women recognize, articulate, and act on their greatest strengths.
• Her groundbreaking “The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations” was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership ever, and is credited with bringing the language of inclusion into business.
• In addition to delivering leadership programs and keynotes in corporations, universities, nonprofits, and associations around the world, Sally has consulted with the UN to build more inclusive country offices in Africa and Asia and led seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College.

01:07- When did you start working on women’s leadership issues?

• I started in 1988.
• I was in a corporate position at some very good company, but I noticed what a poor job they did of understanding the more strategic talents that women had.
• They are very good at giving them jobs and work to do.

05:18- Perspective on Inclusion

• The book, The Web of Inclusion, came out in 1995.
• It was the first place where the word inclusion was used in a business or organizational context.
• At the time, it was considered a real soft skill.
• As the nature of technology changes, organizations have become more reliant on the talent and brains of their people.

07:22- How can we start to make changes?

• In the work I do with organizations, there’s been a lot of focus on unconscious bias.
• In my experience, looking at behaviors is more effective than looking at biases.
• There are very deep and very difficult to root out.

RESOURCES:

You can connect with Sally Helgesen- LinkedIn

• Sally Helgesen’s latest book, “How Women Rise,” co-authored with good friend and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, will be published in April 2018.
• As an author, speaker, and consultant, Sally’s mission has always been to help women recognize, articulate, and act on their greatest strengths.