Seeing Around Corners: Leveraging Women’s Leadership Skills in Times of COVID-19

Everyone wants to know what the world will look like after the inflection point that is the COVID-19 crisis. The reality is that all of our assumptions about what was true six months ago have been utterly upended. We know that in discovering what the future holds, practices associated with women’s leadership are now seen as crucial to leaders of any kind.

Join us for a complimentary webinar with Rita McGrath, a globally recognized management thinker, long-time faculty member at Columbia Business School Executive Education, and the faculty director of our (now virtual) Women in Leadership program.

During this 30-minute webinar, Rita McGrath will offer:

• - Insights into the nature of strategic inflection points and how they can represent opportunities
• - Why the elements of women’s leadership style — creating webs of inclusion, distributing information widely, and giving tremendous autonomy to those with the best information — are so vital now
• - Why empathy, facilitation, shared consciousness, and trust are crucial to succeeding in the wake of the pandemic

Please note that this webinar is not just for women. There is something everyone can learn.

Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. Her ideas are widely used by leading organizations throughout the world, who describe her thinking as sometimes provocative, but unfailingly stimulating. She fosters a fresh approach to strategy amongst those with whom she works. Thinkers50 presented Rita with the #1 award for Strategy, the Distinguished Achievement Award, in 2013. Rita is in their top ten global list of management thinkers overall. She has also been inducted into the Strategic Management Society “Fellows” in recognition of her impact on the field.