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Sally Helgesen, Internationally Acclaimed Speaker, Leadership Consultant, and Bestselling Author
Listen to this interview to learn:
- How senior leaders are looking to use women’s leadership more strategically.
- How technology allows customers and prospective employees to evaluate the opportunities for doing business with your organization.
- What a leading Scandinavian law firm changed in their business to allow people to make a greater contribution.
- The connection between diversity, openness to change, extraordinary customer experience, and the future of business.
Expert Bio
Sally Helgesen is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and consultant, and one of the world’s brand-name experts on women’s leadership. Her most recent book, The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, explores how women’s insights can transform organizations. She is also the author of the best-selling The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed as “the classic work” on women’s leadership style, translated into 11 languages, and continually in print for over twenty years. An earlier book, 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 for corporations, partnership firms, universities and non-profits around the globe. Clients have included Microsoft, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Prudential, KPMG, The World Bank, The United Way, the Council of Independent Colleges, West Point USMA, The Office of Public Management UK; The Global Forum on Women, Society and the Economy, Paris; The Center for Distributed Education, Oslo; and ING Amsterdam.
Sally has consulted with the United Nations Development Program on building more inclusive country offices and on strengthening women’s programs in Africa and Asia. She has 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 Australia. She is a contributing editor to the magazine strategy+business, and a member of the International Women’s Forum and Executive Networks. Articles about her work have been featured in Fortune, The New York Times, Fast Company, and Business Week. She contributes a weekly blog at Forbes.com.
For more information, visit Sally’s website.
Contact Info for Sally Helgesen
Web address: SallyHelgesen.com
Travels From: New York, NY
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