Women Leaders Rising:
Actionable Strategies to Create Gender Equity in Your Organization
Designed for an audience of leaders or executives who are looking to better support women leaders.
Meaningfully engage and activate key audiences at your organizations through an accessible keynote on the state of women in the workplace.
What does it take for women to ascend to the highest levels of leadership, and how can you empower them on their journeys?
The impact of the last few years has been far-reaching, and women in the workplace have been disproportionately affected. As women navigate the hurdles to advancement after a crisis, career progression becomes even harder to achieve.
Developing your women leaders is more urgent now than ever before. Linkage’s decades-long research on the advancement of women leaders identifies the four critical areas organizations must address to meaningfully support women and create a strategy for achieving gender parity: Culture, People Systems & Processes, Focused Leadership Development, and Executive Action.
This keynote will equip key populations with a compelling and accessible story behind women’s advancement and prepares them to meaningfully support women in actionable ways.
In this session, you will:
- Understand the state of women in the workplace and the path to gender parity
- Learn how to measure and prioritize the critical areas to advance women leaders at all levels of your organization
- Recognize the seven hurdles women need to address to advance into positions of greater leadership at your organization and how you can help
- Learn how human resources leaders and organizational leaders can support a culture of women’s advancement and empower women on their leadership journeys
What’s Included:
- 1-hour keynote, virtual or in-person at your organization
- Facilitated by one of Linkage’s Advancing Women Leaders experts
- Collaboration with Linkage team to ensure the session best fits your talent development and organizational goals to ensure maximum impact
- Add–on measurement tools: Advancing Women Leaders 360° Assessment and Advancing Women Leaders Organizational Assessment
- Add-on programming: Advancing Women Leaders Digital Academy, Advancing Women Leaders Academy, Advancing Women Leaders Essentials, Advancing Women Leaders Virtual Sessions, Advancing Women Leaders Game Changer Negotiation Program, and Coaching
- Add-on material: IN HER OWN VOICE: A WOMAN’S RISE TO CEO by premier leadership expert and CEO of Linkage, Jennifer McCollum
Women are 24% less likely than men to receive advice from senior leaders. It’s time to understand the business case for the advancement of women leaders—and meaningfully support women at every organization.
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Keynote:
Changing the Game for Women in the Workplace
The personal impact of COVID-19 has been swift for many women leaders, and the UN warns that the impact of the pandemic could reverse decades of progress toward gender parity, while LeanIn finds that one in four women are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce due to COVID-19.
How can we change the game for women in the workplace?
Advancing your women leaders is more urgent now than ever before. Linkage’s decades-long research on the advancement of women leaders identifies the four critical areas organizations must address to meaningfully support women and create a strategy for achieving gender parity: Culture, Talent Systems, Focused Leadership Development, and Executive Action.
In this session, you will explore:
- The state of women in the workplace and the path to gender parity
- How to measure and prioritize the critical areas to advance women leaders at all levels of your organization
- The seven hurdles women need to address to advance into positions of greater leadership at your organization
What’s Included:
- 1-hour keynote, virtual or in person at your organization
- Facilitated by one of Linkage’s Advancing Women Leaders experts: Kristen Howe and Jennifer McCollum
- Add–on Measurement Tools: Advancing Women Leaders 360° Assessment and Advancing Women Leaders Organizational Assessment
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Multiply Your Impact
Looking for more ways to accelerate the development of high-potential women leaders at your organization? Pair the Keynote: Changing the Game for Women in the Workplace with additional leadership development programming to scale your strategy to advance women leaders.