Inclusive leadership is critical to help your organization become a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. With their words and actions, leaders influence company culture and set the tone for embracing diversity in the workplace. Unfortunately, when leaders rated their organization on key factors tied to advancing diversity, equity, and…

“Are you sure your leaders really know how to create an inclusive environment?” I find myself asking clients this question too many times to count. Usually, this conversation occurs after they’ve told me that they’re struggling to reach their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals. And it’s really hard to…

According to DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast (GLF) 2023 research, companies’ interest in manager coaching as a development method may be dwindling. Significantly fewer leaders than in the 2021 survey reported they want coaching from their manager as a means to develop. And the news story for coaching delves even further…

The best leaders are masters at delegation. Why? They know how to empower their teams to get work done. But it’s not only about getting work done or knowing how to share tasks in the best way. It’s also about creating an environment where employees are proud of their work…

I recently coached a senior leader who, over the course of his 20-year career, never failed to achieve his goals. Unfortunately, this run of success looked to be approaching its end when his team began hemorrhaging talent. To add some background context, his company had acquired a competitor, and so…

A challenge that every board faces is visibility. In their duty to provide governance and oversight of management, it can be a constant struggle to gain unfiltered access to what is actually happening inside the organization, without becoming over-involved to the point of obstruction. Nowhere does this challenge present itself…

As someone who has been living and working with an invisible disability for a decade, raising awareness for how to support people with an invisible disability in the workplace has long been a passion of mine. But this year, as I think about National Disabilities Awareness Month, the importance of…

When COVID-19 swept the streets of New York City a few years back, one major hospital scrambled to train their leaders to interview differently in a dramatically transformed labor market. The problem? They needed to accommodate leaders’ hectic schedules without losing peer-to-peer skill practice. So, what did they do? They…

While much of the advice about networking holds true for both men and women, women leaders need to take extra care to build their networks consciously. Even a brief conversation I had recently with a woman executive reveals the importance of a healthy network for a woman’s career success —…