Sally Helgesen is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and leadership development consultant. Her five books include The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time, and The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, hailed as “the classic work” on women's leadership styles, continually in print for eighteen years, and translated into 12 languages.
"The feedback from participants was overwhelming -- Sally packed a wallop with her insights."
—Chris St.Clare, Partner & Women's Advisory Board, KPMG
"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
"Powerful and engaging."
—Mary Howell, EVP, Textron Corp.
"Sally Helgesen is a brilliant thinker who can turn her great ideas into practical advice. No one can provide greater insight for women on seeking to be leaders or for organizations trying to develop talented women."
—Marshall Goldsmith, named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 executive coaches in the world and by Business Week, as one of the top 50 business thinkers of all time.
In this presentation, Sally shows why leadership in today's 24/7 global environment is different. She explores the revolution in human expectations that is altering the relationship between organizations and their stakeholders and sets forth the leadership capabilities best suited to this environment: leading people with different values, practicing inclusion and expecting expectations to be upended.
In this keynote, Sally draws upon what she has learned during twenty years of researching women leaders. She describes the skills women bring to organizations, shows why these skills are what organizations need today and addresses the major challenges women still face as leaders: achieving visibility, building support, and balancing conflicting demands. This address is hugely popular at women's conferences.
In this keynote, Sally explores how great organizations focus on building sustainability by leading external markets and creating an internal culture that supports continual self-renewal. She presents examples of sustainable leadership in sectors ranging from law enforcement to banking to education and sets forth a framework for building leaders focused on sustainable practice.
In this presentation, Sally draws on her classic book, The Web of Inclusion, to show how building powerful internal and external webs can help organizations adapt to an environment in which marketing is everything, front-line empowerment is essential, training must be integrated into the work of every day and outside alliances are the key to success.
To help corporations create knowledge more consciously, the author of Managing Flow draws on Western and Eastern philosophic traditions.
Despite a widespread recognition that human capital constitutes their primary resource and provides their key competitive advantage, companies are ambivalent about what human capital means and reluctant to commit resources to its development.
Workplaces today use more direct communication and less hierarchy. Women helped effect this change.