Empowering Diversity, Growth, and Equality in Leadership: Match Marketing Group Launches Program in Celebration of International Women’s Day

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Match Marketing Group proudly announces the launch of their EDGE Leadership Group initiative, an effort to foster success, growth and learning opportunities for all. The program will launch in the Boulder office, and ultimately roll out to the full Match agency, including their Chicago, Connecticut, and Toronto offices.

EDGE – which stands for Empowering Diversity, Growth, and Equality in leadership – will provide an ongoing program for Match employees that develops leaders, fosters a spirit of collaboration and maximizes the power of diverse voices. Participants will engage in trainings, networking, forums, speakers, and career development resources, with the goal of cultivating a community that is both educational and empowering.

Each month will focus on specific leadership style or avenue, including topics such as “Neuroplasticity & The Leadership Mindset”, “Learning Leadership Styles from Outdoor Leadership”, and “Women’s Real Power At Work.” This month, the program will kick off with a workshop with Leeds School of Business Professor Dr. Stefanie Johnson on how to address unconscious bias. In addition, EDGE will collaborate to address policies and develop opportunities to better support a diverse workplace, such as Family Leave policies for men and women.

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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.