Join Suzan and NYU's Anne Weisberg as they discuss inclusive leadership, and how we can retain and advance talent inclusively.



January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 12: Inclusive Leadership, Anne Weisberg, NYU

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE

Anne Weisberg designs strategies that foster high performing, inclusive workplaces that deliver on the “S” in ESG. Her private sector experience has focused on talent strategies with a gender lens.

Most recently, Anne was the Women’s Initiative Director at the law firm Paul, Weiss, where she delivered a 40% increase in the number of women associates and created a Women’s Network that has 90% participation. At BlackRock, Anne created an award-winning women’s leadership program that is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. She joined BlackRock from Deloitte, where she co-authored Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace to Today’s Nontraditional Workforce (Harvard Business Press, 2007) that coined the phrase “corporate lattice.” 

Anne is a recognized thought leader on inclusive workplaces. She was asked to write the New York Times op-ed titled “The Workplace Culture That Flying Nannies Won’t Fix” about workplace culture and as a young mother, she co-authored Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know (Doubleday, 1994).

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KEY TAKEAWAY

Anne: “It's very important when you're doing leadership development programs for specific groups within your organization, that they don't feel like it's remedial, and that it's not perceived as like something is wrong with these people that we need to fix, but rather, we're investing in these people because it's good for our business.”

ADDITIONAL LINKS

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Anne’s LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneweisberg/

Take Anne’s Inclusive Leadership Course on March 27+28, 2023: 

https://execed.stern.nyu.edu/products/inclusive-leadership-a-competitive-advantage

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Join Suzan and Stanford's Matt Abrahams as they discuss tips on being a flexible and impactful presenter, even when anxiety presents itself.


January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 11: Speaking Up without Freaking Out with Matt Abrahams, Stanford University

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE

Matt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative and innovative educator and coach. He has published research articles on strategic communication, cognitive planning, persuasion, and interpersonal communication. Matt recently published the third edition of his book Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, a book written to help the millions of people who suffer from anxiety around speaking in public. 

Additionally, Matt developed a software package that provides instant, proscriptive feedback to presenters. Prior to teaching, Matt held senior leadership positions in several leading software companies, where he created and ran global learning and development organizations.

Matt is also founder and principal at TFTS Communications LLC, a presentation and communication skills company based in Silicon Valley that helps people improve their presentation skills. He is also the host of the Stanford GSB podcast called Think Fast Talk Smart: The Podcast, and curator of the NoFreakingSpeaking.com website.

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KEY TAKEAWAY

 “As our species was evolving where you were within your group, [that’s where] you hung out. It meant survival, it meant  food reproduction, et cetera. So anything that put your status at risk was something you should be very concerned about. And getting up in front of others and doing something embarrassing or wrong could negatively impact your status. And that's why we see anxiety around speaking in front of others across most cultures.” 

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Matt’s LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maabrahams/

No Freaking Speaking Website with resources to help improve your public speaking: https://nofreakingspeaking.com/

Think Fast Talk Smart: The Podcast:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast

Matt’s book: Speaking Without Freaking Out
https://nofreakingspeaking.com/thebook/

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Join Suzan and Northwestern's Chethana Achar as they discuss how understanding the moral DNA of your market should inform decisions about products at every stage.



January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 10:  Morality and Consumer Behavior with Chethana Achar, Northwestern

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE

Chethana Achar is currently an Assistant Professor Of Marketing at Northwestern University in the Kellogg School of Management. She studies social stigma and how it shapes consumer behavior, with a focus on public health marketing. Chethana investigates how stigmatization of health issues and risky behaviors shapes consumers' likelihood for seeking healthcare support for mental health issues, vaccinations, illness screenings, etc. She investigates a broad spectrum of beliefs about morality, including the strength of moral beliefs and variance in what people perceive to be moral and not moral. 

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KEY TAKEAWAY

 “We now,  in the last 10- 15 years or so, are seeing this sort of value-angle come up to business, where it's not just about defining the features of your product, it's also about what the product stands for and what the person that's selling the product stands for.  I think our society clearly has reached this point where moral beliefs and values that go behind a brand are an important feature of the brand itself.”

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Chethana’s LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chethana-achar-8192918/

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