Sally Helgesen – Author of six books, most recently How Women Rise,  #15 on Leadership Gurus’s most influential leadership experts and one of the top 35 authorities by Leadership Excellence magazine.  

   

Sally Helgesen’s Speech Topics:

How Women Rise 

   Women’s distinctive strengths and behaviors provide them with many advantages. Yet the very habits that help them early in their careers can hold them back as they seek to rise.

   In this program, Sally draws on her work with #1 ranked executive coach and New York Times best-selling author Marshall Goldsmith to help women identify and address the habits most likely to get in their way as they seek to move to a higher level.

   These habits include: Reluctance to Claim Your Achievements, Expecting Others to Spontaneously Notice and Reward Your Hard Work, Overvaluing Expertise, Building Rather than Leveraging Relationships, Failing to Enlist Allies from Day One, Putting Your Job Before Your Career, The Disease to Please, The Quest to be Perfect, Speaking While Emotional, Minimizing, Ruminating, and Letting Your Radar Distract You.

    Using targeted questions, interactive exercises and vivid real-life examples that resonate and inspire, Sally will help participants:

• Identify the specific habits or (cluster of habits) most likely to hold them back
• Understand how these habits can hinder them at a higher level
• Initiate simple behavioral tweaks that can smooth their path going forward
• Hold themselves accountable for changes that can benefit them and their organizations
• Become a more powerful resource for other women seeking to rise

 

Participants will come away from this program with:

• An enhanced understanding of their individual strengths
• A clear-eyed recognition of their individual challenges
• An actionable template for addressing these challenges
• A proven means for strengthening their webs of support
• A program of action for engaging male champions in women’s ongoing development

 

Visionary, Connected, Intentional & Present: A Workshop for Women Leaders

A Workshop for Women Leaders: Visionary, Connected, Intentional & Present

    In this seminar or workshop, Sally offers concrete, actionable practices for women seeking to position themselves for the next level of leadership, strengthen their professional reputation, showcase their talents, increase their capacity to contribute to their organizations and diminish stress. Sally’s work with women leaders around the world has demonstrated that women who sustain power and influence share four characteristics. They are visionary, connected, intentional and present.

•    To be visionary means to concisely articulate a distinctive vision, passion, point of view or commitment based on what you authentically notice and to manifest it as part of your personal brand
•    To be connected means to confidently leverage internal and external networks in order to enlist support for your vision, based on the recognition that its benefits will be both worthwhile and reciprocal
•    To be intentional means being able to distinguish what to embrace and what to let go as you move to a higher level and assume more responsibility in the world
•    To be present means exhibiting leadership presence by being fully in the moment, a balancing act that requires setting policies around how you use time and technology in order to improve the quality of human interactions

This workshop for women is optimally delivered in two segments.

   The first segment is a 45-minute interactive presentation that shows how cultivating these capacities can help women at every level improve the quality of their lives at work. This session mixes original content, fresh research, brief case studies and lively Q&A.

   The second segment is a 90-120 minute workshop that gives participants a chance to explore and practice key capabilities and gain a clearer idea how specific techniques could benefit their career development. Skills explored include building a persuasive and memorable elevator speech, identifying and engaging a strong web of influence and support, leveraging the power of peer coaching in order to make specific practice improvements and holding space in order to cultivate presence under pressure.

• Specific objectives for the program include helping participants to:
• Articulate a clear, concise and authentic vision
• Frame what they see in the language of benefit
• Enlist allies who can assist them in acting on their vision
• Identify what behaviors they need to embrace and what behaviors they need to let go of to move to the next level
• Create a personal accountability system
• Build a stronger and more distinctive leadership presence
• Participants will come away from this presentation with:
• An enhanced understanding of what they have to contribute at a more senior level
• Practices that foster more intentional and productive career development
• A means for strengthening their personal webs
• Techniques for enhancing their leadership style
• Guidelines for protecting their creativity and maintaining morale

 

Leading in 24/7

For strategic leadership conferences

   Today’s volatile, complex, and highly pressured 24/7 global marketplace is upending what organizations expect from leaders. In this program, Sally offers a comprehensive picture of the forces driving this change.

   Drawing on her work in sectors ranging from military security to energy innovation, and on updated case studies for The Web of Inclusion and Thriving in 24/7, Sally shows how five intersecting trends are transforming organizations and helps leaders understand how to act on these insights.

Sally outlines the big 24/7 challenges leaders will face in the years ahead:

• The impact of “ubiquitous connected transparency” on how people operate and what they expect
• The erosion of traditional barriers that defined the industrial workplace
• The impact of ever-more targeted niche—in markets, but also internally
• The competition-driven demand to achieve more with less in increasingly urgent timeframes
• The need to build sustainability amid constant change and endemic uncertainty
• Sally identifies four practices that enable successful leaders to meet thrive in this environment and shows participants how to use them to strong advantage.
• Developing the capacity to “see around the corners” by drawing information from the broadest possible base
• Fostering the formation of internal webs that develop strategic information at every level
• Leading people with very different values, perceptions, goals and life experience in the pursuit of a common purpose
• Building self-renewing cultures that also help individuals to self-renew
• Participants in this program will:
• Gain valuable insights into how diversity, complexity, and speed impact their own experience and opportunities for leadership
• Learn specific behaviors and actions that can position them for leadership in a time of rapid change
• Develop ways of assessing information that lead to better decisions, increased contribution, greater visibility, and higher morale
• Learn to help foster a less frantic, more intentional working environment in their unit, division or company

 

Sally Helgensen’s Bio:

   Sally Helgesen is a best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership. For the last thirty years, her mission has been to help women leaders around the world recognize, articulate and act on their greatest strengths. She also works with senior teams seeking to build more inclusive cultures.

 

   Sally’s most recent book, How Women Rise, co-authored with coaching legend Marshall Goldsmith, became the top-selling title in its field within a week of publication. It explores the specific habits most likely to get in women’s way as they seek advancement. And it offers powerful practices to help women realize their full potential.

 

    Sally’s previous books include The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed as a classic and continuously in print since 1990, and The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, which explores how women’s strategic insights can strengthen their careers and their organizations. The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, published in 1995, was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time and credited with bringing the language of inclusion into business.

 

   In addition to delivering workshops and keynotes in corporations, partnership firms, universities and associations around the world, Sally has consulted with the UN on building more inclusive country offices in Africa and Asia and led seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College. She is a contributing editor for Strategy+Business magazine, a member of the MG Top 100 Coaches Network and the New York and International Women’s Forums. She lives in Chatham, NY.