006: Why Your Business Needs Diversity with Leadership Expert Loren Margolis - a podcast by Carol Cox
from 2017-03-13T09:00
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an executive, or a professional, you’re a leader, especially if you’re speaking in front of groups of people. It’s important to be aware of the diversity (or lack thereof) in our businesses and in our networks - it's good for us as people and it's good for our company's bottom line. As we sum up at the end, "It all starts with people."
We cover a lot in this conversation, from imposter syndrome to what it means to be approachable as a leader to how diversity of both people and ideas impacts your workplace and your business’s bottom line.
About my guest: Loren Margolis established her expertise at Columbia Business School in New York City as a leadership coach and career strategist for global leaders in Investment Banking, Management Consulting, Consumer Goods, and Technology.
Loren then led executive coaching and large-scale management development programs in the healthcare sector before launching her own company, Training & Leadership Success. She is a contributor for Forbes.com and themuse.com.
We talk about:
- The social media channel we use to connect with influencers
- What Loren was like as a little girl that led her to her profession
- The 3 pillars of career happiness
- Amy Cuddy’s work on body language, taking up space, and presence
- Imposter syndrome and “flexing” rather than “faking” til you make it
- How face-to-face interactions, including speaking in front of a group, builds trust
- What it means to be approachable as a leader
- How diversity of both people and ideas impacts your workplace and your business
- How businesses can really increase diversity and inclusion and not just pay lip service to it
- Why “blind” hiring and promotion is not the answer to increasing diversity
- Why we’ve seen a stagnation in getting more women and people of color into upper-level positions
- A way you can make your network more diverse
- With the increasing speed of technology, globalization and change, as a business you need diversity to be competitive and innovative
- Tips for public speaking from Loren
Links:
You can connect with Loren Margolis at:
LinkedIn = https://www.linkedin.com/in/talentdevelopmentexpert
Twitter = @LorenMargolis
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