S9-Ep11: Top Leadership Lessons for Women from a Senior White House Advisor

Guest: Betsy Myers, former Senior White House Advisor

We may gripe about the pandemic, but it gave us one very positive change for women in the workplace: flexibility. It also highlighted for everyone that old-school leadership won’t cut it anymore. Betsy Myers says head and heart leadership is the model for today’s leaders. It fuses data-driven strategies and decisiveness with qualities such as warmth, compassion, empathy, and collaboration. In short, the head sets the purpose for an organization, but the heart engages your people to follow and bring their best selves to the team.  Here's what Betsy covers with host Maureen Metcalf:

1. Change is inevitable…so successful leaders embrace it;
2. The impacts of holding on to an old-school leadership style (and why it’s the #1 cause of leadership failure!); and
3. What Head-and-Heart Leadership really means.

 

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

- Epic! The Women’s Power Playbook – with Carolyn Buck Luce

- ShEquity: A Refugee’s Path to Empowering Women & Their Businesses – with Pauline Koelbl

- Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations – with Amanda Ellis & Augusto Lopez-Claros

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RESOURCES:  

Betsy’s book, Take the Lead, is available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3lbMWv6. The Kindle version is at https://amzn.to/3YEb1Za. Her website is betsymyers.com.                     

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.

She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.

 

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Snow White & the Seven Robots by Louise Simonson & Jimena Sanchez

 

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OUR PODCAST TEAM:  

Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf

Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko

Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko

Taking the Lead (and the office doughnuts): Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson

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