Knowledge Center – Page 5 – Women's Leadership Edge

Leveling the Playing Field for First Generation Professionals: Tips for Individuals and Their Employers

Racial Equity, Skill building, Videos, Webinars

Too often in diversity contexts, programming is designed to help women, LGBTQ individuals, or people of color – but rarely tackle issues of class. Yet first-generation college students face particular, well documented challenges in professional workplaces. This webinar is designed to provide a toolkit to address those challenges. Class migrants—professionals from non-professional families—often find self-promotion […]

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Authentic Leadership as a Critical Pillar of Inclusive Work Environments

Gender Equity, Racial Equity, Skill building, Videos, Webinars

Overview: A growing body of research suggests that authenticity is a key ingredient for building inclusive environments. However, most corporate environments struggle with the idea of authenticity – professionals are taught to avoid differences rooted in culture, rather than leverage these differences for success, which in turn causes them to minimize their own differences in

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Leading Effective Teams

Gender Equity, Racial Equity, Videos, Webinars

Learn how to build effective and diverse teams by interrupting biases that creep in to everyday workplace situations. Joan will draw upon her years of research to discuss leveraging collective intelligence to increase team productivity and innovation, concrete strategies for identifying and interrupting diversity-related bias, and the value of well-managed, inclusive teams.

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Gender & Negotiation

Gender Equity, Skill building, Videos, Webinars

Women face unique obstacles at the negotiating table. Both male and female counterparts hold expectations that make it difficult for women to negotiate value and build relationships. This data-driven webinar shares recent research on how women can be effective despite the distinctive challenges we face at the negotiating table.

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An Ace Up The Poker Star’s Sleeve: The Surprising Upside Of Stereotypes

Audios, Gender Equity, Racial Equity

Annie Duke was often the only woman at the poker table, which influenced the way people saw her, and the way she saw herself. Feeling like an outsider can come at a cost, but also can be an advantage.

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Interrupting Bias in Performance Evaluations

Gender Equity, Racial Equity, Videos, Webinars

Studies show that subtle gender and racial biases often creep into performance evaluations. Learn how to design and fill out performance evaluations to avoid this. Research shows that women’s reviews are more likely to contain negative feedback, and women tend to receive different types of criticism than men. Men typically receive constructive suggestions related to

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Lean In | Expert Lecture Series ft Joan Williams

Gender Equity, Videos

Learn how to spot gender bias—and hear successful women’s strategies for navigating it. Four common patterns of gender bias shape today’s workplaces. This video series will help you: Spot all four patterns; and Learn proven strategies successful women use to navigate subtle bias.

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Katty Kay

Gender Equity, Thought Leaders, Videos

[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Katty Kay is the lead anchor of BBC World News America in Washington. She has authored The Confidence Code and Womenomics with Claire Shipman. She was the keynote speaker for day one of the Women’s Global Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. in 2013.

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Ashley Milne-Tyte

Audios, Gender Equity, Thought Leaders, Videos

[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Ashley Milne-Tyte is a journalist and the host of The Broad Experience, a podcast on women in the workplace. She is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Journalism School, teaching radio storytelling skills.

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Book Club Picks

Book Club

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Below are titles from our list of “must-read” books that deal with issues of women’s leadership, work/life balance, and gender equity at work and at home. We’ve included discussion questions designed by the author(s) of each book exclusively for WLE. Get together with your colleagues and host a book club.

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