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Ranked as one of the top ranked “leadership gurus” in the world, Sally Helgesen is a pioneer researcher, speaker, and consultant on women’s styles of leadership and the unique contributions they make to the workplace. She focuses on honing women’s leadership styles, creating inclusive company cultures, and equipping men in senior positions to fully engage women’s talents and potential.
In her bestselling The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, Sally was the first to focus on what women have to contribute to organizations rather than how they need to change and adapt. She is also the author of the award-winning The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, and four other books, the most recent being The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work. Her work has been profiled by Fortune, The New York Times, Fast Company, and Business Week.
Sally has served as a consultant for The United Nations, where her pioneering studies on inclusive leadership and the increasing power of individuals in shaping their own work was the basis for the creation of a group of “Centers of Experimentation” that administer leadership programs in developing countries.
Sally Helgesen, an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and consultant, is ranked by Leadership Gurus as number 15 in its survey of the world’s most influential leadership experts and cited as one of the top 35 authorities in the field by Leadership Excellence magazine.
Sally is the author of six books, most recently The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, which breaks new ground by exploring how women’s strategic insights can strengthen their careers and benefit their organizations. Her best-selling The Female Advantage: Women′s Ways of Leadership, hailed as “the classic work” on women′s leadership styles, has been continuously in print for 22 years and was translated into 12 languages. 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 of all time.
Sally develops and delivers leadership programs to corporations, partnership firms, universities and associations around the world. Clients include Microsoft, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Prudential Financial, Pfizer, Textron, Hewlett Packard, The World Bank, The United Way, The West Point Military Academy, The Office of Public Management UK; The Global Forum on Women, Society and the Economy, Paris; Roschier LLP Helsinki, ING Amsterdam and The Distributed Education Network, Oslo. She has consulted with UNDP on building more inclusive country offices is Africa and Asia, led seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College, and been visiting scholar at Northwestern University and the Lauriston Institute in Melbourne AU.
Sally is a contributing editor to strategy + business magazine and a member of the International Women’s Forum. Articles about her work have been featured in Fortune, The New York Times, Fast Company, and Business Week. She lives in Chatham NY.
Drawing from 25 years of research and fieldwork focused on women leaders, Sally Helgesen presents trusted guidelines on developing a leadership style and managing women team members in a way that maximizing their talents. She navigates the audience through research that led to two “red hot” insights regarding the way women manage their careers and position themselves in their organizations.
Sally’s research was inspired by the lack of literature addressing how women could leverage their leadership styles: instead every paper she found stressed the need for women to change their leadership styles so that they would be more similar to men’s. “There was no acknowledgement that women might have something to contribute,” she recalls. “Or that what they might have to contribute could be valuable to organizations in helping them change and thrive in a rapidly changing environment.”
Sally Helgesen turns brilliant insights into effective practices. She breaks down decades of research on women’s leadership styles and walks the audience through road-tested tactics to fully engage women’s potential and create and manage a truly inclusive work environment. Audiences will leave with the leadership skills needed to cultivate and maintain competitive organizations in today’s VUCA environment – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.
Acting on the Female Vision For women’s leader ship conferences, retreats and events
Women′s distinctive vision— the power of what they notice, what they value, how they connect the dots– should be a competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace. Yet because women′s ways of seeing have not been recognized or understood, women’s potential to make strategic contributions is rarely fully engaged.
In this keynote, Sally draws on insights from two decades of groundbreaking research to help women use the power of what they see to position themselves as visionary leaders. Using vivid examples, she provides a clear blueprint that shows women how to:
Sally also shows how organizations can make better use of women’s visionary capacity to:
Participants will come away from this program with:
Acting on The Female Vision can be delivered in formats ranging from a 45 minute keynote to a half day seminar. The major practices also provide rich material for breakouts or workshops that follow on from a keynote.
Sally has delivered customized versions of this content for women in financial services, health care, technology, consumer products, legal and consulting firms, associations, media, education, the military and non-profits.
Leading in 24/7 Leading in an intense, demanding, 24/7 global environment requires a distinctive set of skills. In this seminar, Sally describes the forces that are transforming opportunities in the marketplace and defines skills leaders will need to take advantage of them.
Fast Forwarding The Female Advantage In this keynote or seminar, Sally shows why skills women bring to organizations are precisely what organizations need today. She also addresses the major challenges women still face as leaders: achieving visibility, building support, setting boundaries, and influencing up.
Leading from the Center of the Web Sally draws on her classic book, The Web of Inclusion, to show how leaders can leverage the power of internal and external webs to engage the talents and ideas of people at every level in the organization. By breaking down the industrial era divide between what people see and what they do, leaders can achieve extraordinary results.
From Diversity to Inclusion For diversity, inclusion and innovation conferences and employee resource group events
Diversity defines the talent base in organizations today—both demographic diversity and diversity of values. Yet organizations still struggle to engage the best talents of diverse employees in meeting core strategic and business needs. As a result, diversity efforts remain silo’d, internally focused and underleveraged.
In this keynote, Sally draws on 17 years of work with diverse teams around the globe to show how organizations can engage the full talents of all employees in meeting marketplace demands by creating the conditions in which inclusive leadership can thrive. Recognizing that inclusion is not an ideal but a practice, she demonstrates how to define, encourage, model, mentor, measure and reward inclusive behaviors.
“The feedback from participants was overwhelming — Sally packed a wallop with her insights.” Chris St.Clare, Partner & Women′s Advisory Board, KPMG
“Powerful and engaging.” Mary Howell, EVP, Textron Corp
“Sally strikes a raw nerve on the most pressing topic of the day. Full of practical solutions and great ideas.” Alicia Whitaker, MD Global HR, CreditSuisse
“Sally is provocative yet practical in offering proven strategies for leveraging the power of in the global marketplace.” Bill Mills, VP, Talent Management, United Way of America
“Great takeaways and plenty of aha′s.” J. Michael Keeling, President, ESOP Association
“Sally hit it out of the park! Her deep research and personal passion resonated immediately with our audience. Her insights were practical and actionable. A huge plus, highest rating.” Trudy Bourgeois, The Network of Executive Women’s Leader’s Forum
“Sally provided great insights on what makes women effective leaders. I find myself sharing what she said with colleagues male and female!”
Lynn B Nichols, President and CEO, Massachusetts Hospital Association
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Based on extensive research and workplace experience, The Female Vision demonstrates that what women perceive in organizations and beyond that goes unnoticed and unrewarded is exactly what so many companies need to succeed. Helgesen and Johnson delve deeply into the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies—although often they had to struggle not only against unresponsive organizations, peers, or others, but also against their own personal fears. They show how companies can create environments that welcome and encourage women to share what they notice, to the benefit not only of the women themselves but also, perhaps ironically, to the all important bottom line.
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Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work 24/7: Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Not long ago, the phrase might have been used to describe the challenges of being a working mother. But now, in the wired world of the new millennium, men as well as women struggle with a new way of life. More and more, work invades our home lives, and leisure time is often so regimented that it begins to seem like work. Our relationship to time is transformed by technologies that operate at a speed beyond conscious thought. And as the stages of our lives become less and less predictable, it becomes increasingly difficult to prepare for the future.
Sally Helgesen′s lucid new book will help readers restore their equilibrium. She both describes the 24/7 phenomenon and offer six strategies for dealing with it—strategies that anyone can master. She focuses especially on the ability to improvise, to be partners in change with our employers, to be open to innovation, and to “customize our lives.” And based upon hundreds of interviews with men and women adept at navigating the 24/7 world, as well as personal experience, she weaves in anecdotes that illustrate the strategies in action.
Thriving In 24/7 is an indispensable handbook for anyone who wants not merely to survive but to thrive in the new world of work.
Female Advantage: Women′s Ways of Leadership Now in Currency paperback — Sally Helgesen′s classic study of female leaders and how their strategies represent a highly successful revision of male leadership styles. Sixty thousand copies in print! In her bestselling 1990 book, Sally Helgesen discovered that men and women approach work in fundamentally different ways. Many of these differences hold distinct advantages for women, who excel at running organizations that foster creativity, cooperation, and intuitive decision-making power, necessities for companies of the twenty-first century.
Helgesen′s findings reveal that organizations run by women do not take the form of the traditional hierarchical pyranaid, but more closely resemble a web, where leaders reach out, not down, to form an interrelating matrix built around a central purpose. The strategy of the web concentrates power at the center by drawing others closer and by creating communities where information sharing is essential. She presents her findings through unique, closely detailed accounts of four successful women business leaders — Frances Hesselbein of Girl Scouts USA, Barbara Grogan of Western Industrial Contractors, Nancy Badore of Ford Motor Company′s Executive Development Center, and Dorothy Brunson of Brunson Communications. Helgesen observes their meetings, listens to their phone calls and conferences, and reads their correspondence. Her “diary studies” document how women leaders make decisions, schedule their days, gather and disperse information, motivate others, delegate tasks, structure their companies, hire, and fire. She chronicles how their experiences as women — wives, mothers, friends, sisters, daughters — contribute to their leadership style. Order Here
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