If you look around conference rooms, corporate boardrooms, and leadership teams, it’s clear that despite continued lip service to diversity, most businesses today still prefer the status quo when it comes to senior leadership roles. Much of this can be traced back to comfort level: SHAMBAUGH has found that people often feel safer when surrounded […]
Demystifying Executive Presence
I’ve been on the road the last several weeks with the SHAMBAUGH team, working with our clients’ leadership and executive groups. A common theme has arisen in a number of my interactions regarding executive presence, which is a somewhat intangible attribute that can be subtle to define and awkward to discuss. No wonder it’s an […]
EVENT: May 23rd | Rebecca Shambaugh to Keynote WEST Event
No one can publicly argue against gender equity and its compelling business case and yet real progress is painfully slow – how can we get organizations moving in the right direction now? Most recently, some prominent companies, such as GE, have made ambitious pledges to rapidly transform their workplaces to achieve gender equity in a few years. […]
Why We Avoid Tough Talks—and How to Get Over It
A senior-level executive who I coached shared this story of the most difficult conversation she had ever had with an employee. This executive—let’s call her Mary—led an account team of junior managers, and the client asked for the removal of one of the managers—named “Mike”—from the account. When Mary tried to explain the situation to […]
Women’s Events Spark Shared Solutions for Gender Equality
Last week saw the latest in action-oriented events in what I and many others globally have dubbed the Year of the Woman. Like last January’s Women’s March, the International Women’s Day and “A Day Without a Woman” events (both held on March 8) played a vital role in galvanizing women and giving them a collective […]
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