How do leaders get results today? This is one of the critical questions for 2022 — and beyond. We are faced with a global crisis in Ukraine, the fallout from a global pandemic along with unprecedented changes in how we think about work and life balance. These issues alongside generational shifts in our society are changing the way leaders think about leadership.
Today’s leaders must lead with a blend of both head and heart. They must harness data, facts, science, strategy, analysis and assertiveness with care, compassion, empathy and inclusiveness?
This session will discuss what it means to be an integrated head-and-heart leader. It will also touch upon the aspect of leadership of self and leadership of others using this approach along with powerful examples of leaders getting results. The session will include:
Why we need head & heart leadership today
How it works
Best roles models in this current time in history across the globe
What this leadership model might mean for you and your personal leadership
Opportunity to discuss and ask questions.
Speaker
Betsy Myers is a leadership expert, author and advocate. She was most recently the founding director of the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University. She consults and leads workshops around the world on the changing nature of leadership and talent with a special expertise around women and leadership. Her book, Take the Lead -- Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You, was released in September 2011 and named the Washington Post’s Best Leadership Book that year.
Myers’ experience spans the corporate, political and higher education arenas. As executive director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government from 2003-2007, she focused the center's teaching and research around personal leadership and the fully integrated person.
A senior adviser to Presidents Clinton and Obama, Myers served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chair of Women for Obama during President Obama’s 2008 national presidential campaign. During the Clinton Administration, Myers launched, and was the first director of the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach. She also served as the director of the Office of Women's Business Ownership at the SBA.
She received her Bachelor's Degree in business administration from the University of San Diego and her Master's Degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School, where she was also a Public Service Fellow.
This meeting is one of a series offered by the HKS New England Alumni/ae Association.