There are many reasons to foster an Integrated Leadership culture—one that values, leverages, and blends the strengths of both women and men—in your organization. Gender-balanced leadership perspectives can lead to a wide range of benefits at the organizational, team, and individual levels. The latest research published at the end of 2015 in the Proceedings of […]

You don’t need to be a scientist to recognize that women think, act, and lead differently than men. Yet science can help us understand why this is so. Decades of research and studies have proven that male and female brains are structured differently. These structural variances are what determines how the two genders think, what […]

Not long ago, the CEO of a well-known IT company told me over coffee about losing a woman on his executive team who got hired away by another firm. The CEO (let’s call him Dan) explained that this female executive had been the “voice of the customer” for the leadership team, and had recently told […]

It was a familiar scene in Davos Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum took place in January: many men around the table and relatively few women. (Women represented only 18 percent of total delegates.) What was a bit different, though, was the focus on the increasingly urgent need to achieve gender parity in organizations worldwide. […]