Sally Helgesen

Featured Keynote Programs

Rising Together is a 60-90 minute interactive virtual keynote designed to help men become more skilled and informed bosses, mentors, sponsors, champions and colleagues for women. This is essential for organizations seeking to recruit, engage, retain and develop talented women.

Rather than looking for “unconscious biases,” Sally’s work focuses on identifying specific practices and behaviors that enable men to most effectively support women, thus benefitting their organizations, increasing women’s capacity to contribute and enhancing their own standing as leaders. She also works with common triggers that can cause both men and women to undervalue one another’s potential and achievements.

Using vivid, real-life examples that resonate and inspire, Sally will help participants:

• Understand the internal barriers most likely to hold women back
• Identify specific practices to diminish these barriers
• Communicate their intentions with accuracy and discernment
• Recognize habits and behaviors that could undermine their efforts
• Initiate simple behavioral tweaks to create more effective outcomes

Participants will come away from this program with:
• A more accurate means for assessing women’s potential
• An enhanced understanding of how to effectively support women’s ability to contribute at every level
• Tools for positioning themselves as inclusive leaders
• A means for holding themselves accountable for enhancing their organization’s culture

This program is recommended for leadership teams that are heavily male but have female participation.

Women’s distinctive strengths and behaviors provide them with many advantages. Yet the very habits that help them early in their careers can hold them back as they seek to rise.

In this keynote, Sally will on her work with legendary executive coach Marshall Goldsmith to help women identify the habits most likely to get in their way.
Using vivid real-life examples that resonate and inspire, Sally helps participants:
• Identify how specific habits may hinder them as they move to a higher level
• Initiate simple behavioral changes that can smooth their path going forward
• Hold themselves accountable for changes that can benefit them and their organizations
• Become a more powerful resource for other women seeking to rise

Participants will come away from this program with:
• An enhanced understanding of their individual strengths
• An actionable template for identifying and addressing challenges going forward
• A proven means for enlisting support
• Tools for enhancing their visibility and connections

Male participants report that attending this keynote helps them be more informed and effective supporters of female colleagues by giving them a better understanding of how to motivate and engage female employees.

This program will focus on 3 of the habits identified in the book How Women Rise that the WIN team identifies as most helpful for the group.