Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

For leaders, this means a new urgency in targeting, nurturing, and advancing top talent in their organization. Leaders have long recognized that an inherently diverse workforce “matches the market” and confers a competitive edge by recognizing the unmet needs of consumers and clients like themselves. Create pathways for sponsorship.

EPS 12

EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Many employees are encouraged to “just be yourself,” only to find their authenticity — and their career ambitions — constrained by unwritten office rules about appearance, speech, and behavior. Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP).

EPS 8

EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

EPS 8

EPS Banking Diversity Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

I'm sure I asked this next question in the kind of holier-than-thou voice that only a 20-something can conjure: Why would I shift my career from Apple and GoLive (a hot web authoring software) to CAD, where innovation levels and growth were single digit? That CAD stuff, I asked? Ah-huh, he said. Why don't you just come talk to Carol?

EPS 15

EPS Strategy Reference Execution 15