The Making of Future Women Leaders

Women’s and Leadership Programs, a new area at Leeds School of Business, is dedicated to gender parity and education and inspires a strong community of women at Leeds. Earlier this month, the program debuted its first-ever Women’s Leadership Symposium—an event to help women learn power skills, engage in pivotal conversations, and build community.

Diversity is only half the battle

Many workplaces have become significantly more diverse. More women and minorities than ever before have found executive positions in the business world. However, Professor Stefanie K. Johnson, author of the bestselling book, “Inclusify,” pointed out that diversity and inclusion are two very different things.

Andrea Silva, director of innovation success at Iterate.ai, agreed with Johnson and shared that it is impossible to be your most successful self if you cannot bring your full self to work. Zayo manager Essence Montgomery added that if you want to be an Inclusifier, “don’t let the person who says nothing continue to say nothing.”

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About the Author: DrStefanieKJohnson

Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is particularly interested in the effects of unconscious biases in the evaluation of women and minorities, with the goal of finding ways to mitigate those biases. Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN. Stefanie lives in the Boulder Bubble in Colorado with her Biology Professor husband, two young kiddos, and two old kitties.