If your company doesn’t regularly glean insights from a female CEO, you are missing out on valuable perspective. Gone are the days when fashionable pumps were scarcely seen in the executive suite. Even though there’s been progress, let’s face it: In sheer numbers, male leaders still predominant in America’s top business slots.
Aside from the ideological notion that business leaders should have an equitable mix of men and women, some businesses – particularly those in manufacturing industries – lack the valuable input a female executive provides her colleagues.
One way to gain insight from female business leaders is to bring together a mix of male and female business professionals to a round-table format, where leaders from non-competing industry sectors can trade valuable advice.
As we all know, there is a constant tension between keeping proprietary information secure and yet feeling as though you are living in a silo, cut off from other business leaders, many of who are wrestling with similar decisions of great import. Wouldn’t it be great to have a safe place to trade shoptalk at the executive level?
Executives are becoming more aware of the immense value that comes from gleaning new perspectives. Leaders are open to learn new ways to best navigate through those business challenges common to many CEOs. Join us as we learn from each other.