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In this webinar, Sally will draw on her best-seller How Women Rise, co-authored with legendary executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, to identify and address the habits most likely to get in women’s way as they seek to move to a higher level. These often include building rather than leveraging relationships, failing to enlist allies from day one, putting your job before your career, speaking while emotional, minimizing, ruminating, and letting your radar distract you. Continue reading...

In this webinar, we'll discuss best practices and common pitfalls in taking and returning from parental leave. In conjunction with Pregnant@Work and The Pregnant Scholar, three of our in-house experts will speak from their own experience as working mothers as much as from their research. Continue reading...

In this webinar, we’ll examine four workplace issues frequently faced by senior women. First, certain common patterns of gender bias actually increase as women get more senior—we will discuss these patterns and offer strategies for navigating them successfully. Second, many senior women begin to think about how to leave a legacy, and we will look at how to do so effectively. Third, we’ll examine generational conflicts that often arise between more senior women and more junior ones. Finally, research shows that women are more likely than senior men to retire early—we will discuss why this happens, what employers can do to retain valued employees, and how women who feel the need to do so can open up a new chapter in their lives.
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Why is it that so many organizations invest in diversity, but see little change? One reason is that D&I efforts are often detached from data and inconsistent with research. But for a growing number of companies, that's changing. From Airbnb and Google to Capital One and The New York Times, businesses across industries are taking a more data-driven approach to diversity. It's time to apply that same approach in all fields. In this session we'll share how organizations can use data to pinpoint the factors limiting diversity and inclusion, enabling them to embed effective changes, and sometimes even small tweaks, to move the needle successfully. Continue reading...

This webinar will review the legal framework governing sexual harassment at work and provide practical tools for addressing sexism/sexual harassment directed at you or at others. We’ll provide guidance to help you recognize and address harassment, and spot risk factors for harassment in your industry. We’ll talk about what allies can do to prevent and address sexual harassment at the individual and organizational level. We’ll also talk about how to address backlash and respond to calls for sex-segregated workplace relationships, with suggestions for how men and women can continue to work together and network in light of sexual harassment concerns.
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It is said that seeing is believing; but what about the things we don’t realize we are seeing? Despite all our good intentions and our desire to be fair and merit-based in our assessments of others, our unconscious biases create blind spots. Decades of research by social scientists make it clear that our brains take short cuts to conclusions without telling us. They rely heavily on schemas, ideas and things that go together to make evaluations. It can be an efficient system, but it can also be a faulty one, and cause us to misjudge and exclude people based on old societal stereotypes, preferences and our personal belief system. This is not because we are bad people, it’s because we are people.
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