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 […]
Boards: You Need Women.
2015 is unquestionably the time for the momentum to be created by both men and women for women to serve on all four types of boards (advisory, non-profit, private and public) and to be especially active in leadership roles in the Pivotal Leadership TrioTM (Board of Directors, CEO/Executive Director and Executive Team) within our private […]
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 […]
Diversity Quotas for Boards: Data from around the world.
In my post “Diversity Quotas for Boards: What’s happening now,” I shared some information about what different countries in Europe and North America are doing in regard to board quotas. I limited what I included there for the sake of brevity, but I did want to share more of this valuable data. Here’s an expanded […]