How to make your firm's women leadership program shine

The struggles some businesses face in cultivating successful women’s leadership programs, says a highly accomplished woman leader, can be rectified.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 9:00 a.m. February 17, 2022
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St. Petersburg leadership consultant Audrey McGuckin says a billion-dollar manufacturing business CEO recently told her his efforts to promote and boost women in leadership roles were failing. And he had no idea why.

McGuckin knew.

The manufacturing CEO, most likely with the best of intentions, she says, was trying to “fix those women and mold them into the type of leaders he wanted. Most organizations will try and fix women leaders. But it’s not about fixing women leaders. We fix the system.

 

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