Advancing Women Leaders

In this blog series, we’ll be sharing leadership advice from our 2018 Executive Impact Award recipients. Today, Chris Hause from Kaiser Permanente shares lessons to live and lead by—and why articulating who you want to be matters more than you think.

Drum roll, please! I’m thrilled to announce the 2018 recipients of Linkage’s Women in Leadership Executive Impact Award.

Eva Helén, founder and CEO of EQ Inspiration, shares her biggest challenge working as a woman leader in a male dominated industry, the downside to #metoo, inherent gender differences, and the noteworthy mission of her latest venture.

I’m really thrilled at how far Linkage has come. I have to admit that our appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday night was unequivocally a high point for me during my 20+ years here. For those of you who haven’t seen it, take a few minutes to watch the clip now.

We all have biases–conscious and unconscious. Both ways impact behavior. We automatically assume things about people born and raised in certain cities, countries, regions, etc. We judge people by how they look or present themselves to the world. We don’t do it on purpose, but we are all guilty of some sort of bias and judgment. Imagine if you unknowingly carry these thoughts into the workplace.

The reality is that bias—and the other hurdles in the workforce may be impacting us. The good news is that we can control these and they can actually help us advance. The behavior change starts with us.