Inspiring keynotes on women in business and leadership
Inspiring keynotes on women in business and leadership
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Former senior advisor to Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign and motivator for women in business
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Speaker Betsy Myers’ experience spans the corporate, political and higher education arenas. As executive director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, she focused the center’s teaching and research around personal leadership and the fully integrated person.
Betsy Myers is a leadership expert, an author and an advocate. She is the founding director of the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University in Boston. Myers is also consulting, speaking and leading workshops around the world on the changing nature of leadership and talent with a special expertise around women and leadership. Her book, “Take the Lead — Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You,” was named the Washington Post’s Best Leadership Book that year in its release year.
A senior adviser to Presidents Clinton and Obama, Myers served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chair of Women for Obama during President Obama’s 2008 national presidential campaign. During the Clinton Administration, Myers launched, and was the first director of, the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. She also served as the director of the Office of Women’s Business Ownership at the SBA.
Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Myers spent six years building Myers Insurance and Financial Services in Los Angeles, specializing in the small business and women’s market.
See keynotes with Betsy MyersSo many people have a difficult time accepting the realities of their workplace today. The driving theme of this speech is that it’s irrelevant whether you like a boss, colleague, constituent or donor.
What is relevant, however, is navigating every situation to achieve the best possible outcome while preserving your integrity. This is the only way to prosper in your company. It all starts with you.
Each C-Level executive is tested at one point in his or her career by a failure, disappointment, loss, setback or betrayal. The difference between good and great organizational leaders is how resilient they are, how they deal with, and even embrace, these unexpected changes.
Indeed, our failures are the road map to our true selves; life and leadership is never a straight line but, instead, a curvy road with obstacles that challenge and stretch us. We cannot control change but we can manage how we react to it through our personal leadership.
Every company today is grappling with a staggering statistic — 50-70% of American workers are disengaged in the workplace. Clearly, the old model of command-and-control leadership is no longer effective in this new environment.
A new leadership model is necessary to recruit and retain engaged talent at all levels of the organization.
Most companies aren’t making real progress when it comes to gender equity today. Indeed, women’s issues often appear to be pushed to the side. Unfortunately, though, the old strategies and continuing lack of focus aren’t helping organizations recruit, retain and advance talented women.
Women currently hold just 10%-15% of the senior leadership (C-Suite) positions in corporate America, even though they hold 50% of the middle-management positions.
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