Did you know recent polling has shown only 5% of women occupy the highest positions with the top 500 companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange? Even though women make up nearly half the workforce in the United States and hold over half of the country’s middle management positions, female CEO’s are still extremely rare. As an African-American woman who has served as VP for a Fortune 500 company, Deborah Smith Pegues has witnessed firsthand the importance of diversity in a business’s upper level leadership and wants to empower more women to embrace their potential as leaders and confidently break into a male-dominated world.
In her upcoming book, Lead Like a Woman, Deborah teaches women how to hone their natural gifts as well as sharpen other important leadership traits, such as developing a strong intuition, sharp interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate concisely. She also counsels women against habits that hold them back such as downplaying their abilities and competence, pursuing perfection to the detriment of their own success, and viewing female colleagues as rivals rather than teammates.
Deborah and I had fun. Listen in.
Links:
https://www.confrontingissues.com/
