Gender Equity: Building an Inclusive Organization

A diverse workforce is a business imperative in an increasingly global economy. Without it, our work environment is likely to be unproductive and lack innovative thinking.

In today’s business world, women occupy only a minor portion of leadership. This is why it is critically important to develop a working environment that enables women to develop and improve their leadership skills.

Watch this webinar, led by Bernice Ledbetter, EdD of the Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School, as she focuses on the importance of advancing women in leadership through creating a culture of inclusion.

This session will cover:

   •   The benefits of inclusion;

   •   Ethical and moral dimensions of inclusion;

   •   Exclusion;

   •   Strategies for advancing gender equity.

Dr. Bernice Ledbetter serves as dean of students at the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School; she is the founding director of the Center for Women in Leadership (CWL) and serves as practitioner faculty of organizational theory and practice, where she teaches graduate-level courses in leadership across a range of leadership topics. She is an award-winning teacher and recipient of the “2019 TrailBlazer Award” from Leadership California, the Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence, and the George Award for Outstanding Faculty Member.

Dr. Ledbetter's professional background includes serving as a vice president at Right Management Consultants, an internationally known career transition and organizational consulting firm, and co-founding the De Pree Leadership Center dedicated to promoting values-based leadership. She is an active member of the International Leadership Association and regularly presents research at academic conferences. Her most recent book chapter (2020) “Women in leadership in Uganda” appears in Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration, Volume Three: A Global Perspective. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, edited by Margaret Weber and Kerri Cissna-Heath.