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Sally Helgesen

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Thought-Leader-in-Residence, Global Talent & Inclusion Strategy Network

Sally Helgesen is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and consultant, and one of the world’s brand-name experts on women’s leadership. Her latest book, The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, is the first to make the strategic case for women leaders. She is also the author of the best-selling The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, hailed as “the classic work” on women's leadership style, translated into 12 languages, and continually in print for twenty years. An earlier book, The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time. Sally delivers keynotes and develops leadership programs for corporations, partnership firms, and non-profits around the globe. She has consulted with the United Nations Development Program on building more inclusive and decentralized country offices and on strengthening women’s programs in Africa and Asia. She has led seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College, and been visiting scholar at Northwestern University and Lauriston Institute in Melbourne Australia. Articles about Sally’s work have been featured in Fortune, The New York Times and Business Week, and she has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows. She is a contributing editor to the magazine Strategy+Business and is a member of the New York Women’s Forum.