Publisher Description
Empowering women empowers everyone. Women with confidence, equal pay, and leadership opportunity enrich workplace culture and help the whole organization. The first step is understanding that gender balance is not a zero-sum game. The Next Smart Step is a clear, assured guide to understanding the challenge of gender imbalance, implementing solutions, and equipping listeners with the tools we all need to ensure change that is positive and enduring. It is about all of us becoming leaders.
The Next Smart Step builds on a positive reality, helping listeners recognize and manage unconscious biases, see diversity as a twenty-first-century skill, and work towards equal partnerships in the workplace. It outlines strategies for flexibility, communication, openness, and mutual respect. Gender equity is not only the right thing to do—it makes life better, workplace culture more diverse, opportunity more widely available, and organizations more successful. The Next Smart Step will help everyone from new hires to corporate executives learn the personal leadership this important issue demands.
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About the Authors
Jodi Detjen is a Professor of Management at Suffolk University, Boston. Jodi writes about the organizational aspects related to living an integrated life. She is a principal partner of a boutique consulting firm, the InTrinsic Group. Jodi works with organizations to deliver outcome-focused leadership development, process improvement to match performance strategy, and coaching to foster effective performance. Prior to this, Jodi was as an international management consultant based in London, England working with Global 1000 clients focused on large-scale organizational change. Jodi received her MA in International Development Policy from Duke University and her B.Sc., from Virginia Tech in Management Science.
Kelly Watson is a former Technology Executive and now provides consulting services to a range of companies. She has implemented large-scale operations projects including e-commerce, Point-of-Sale systems, inventory control, Paperless Practice Medical software, and ERP systems. She has filled executive-level roles for her clients and has launched new businesses on their behalf. Kelly also has taught a popular MBA Business Consulting class at Loyola Marymount University. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada and an MBA from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she was recognized with high honors as a member of both Beta Gamma Sigma and Alpha Sigma Nu.
About Nan McNamara
Nan McNamara has performed on stage, television, film, and behind the microphone in voice-overs for over twenty years. Her passion is to tell good stories—no matter what the medium. Originally from St. Paul, Nan received a BA cum laude in theater.