Today is International Women’s Day, which “celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women.” The theme for International Women’s Day 2017 is #BeBoldForChange. There is a worldwide call “to help forge a better working world- a more inclusive, gender equal world.” To forge a better working world, we must care to break down remaining […]
A Place at the (Board) Table… for Women: One Year Later
Do you hear what I hear? “When women thrive, businesses thrive.” As reported by Grant Thornton, there is a significant opportunity cost associated with male-only boards: $655B for 1,050 companies across India, the UK and US. The same “group thinking” is opening a doorway to embrace diversity of thought to achieve business growth. Boards of […]
Diversity: the new uniformity
You may know that I’m an avid skier and golfer, and you can find me skiing at Big Sky, Montana, throughout the winter season, and golfing there in the summer. For the last year I have contributed a bi-weekly business column to Explore Big Sky. You’ll find my latest column below, and you can also […]
Diversity Quotas for Boards: What we should do.
In my earlier posts on this subject, I reviewed what’s happening around the world with board quotas right now and what the people I polled had to say on the topic. Today I want to talk specifically about a solution to the gender disparity problem on boards in North America since our governments have not […]
Diversity Quotas for Boards: What people are saying.
My previous two posts (here and here) offered a bit of an overview of what’s happening around the world with board quotas now. Today I’d like to share some of the insights I received when I conducted polls for both men and women on this subject. In order to get a better sense of the […]