Dr. Carol Vallone Mitchell is, without question, the most eclectic guest we’ve had on the Work in Progress our podcast. She’s a former molecular biologist – as Bill Maher would say, that’s my old job – a US Patent holder for research conducted while she was at DuPont, and is the cofounder of the leadership development consulting firm Talent Strategy Partners. Dr. Mitchell is the author of the new business book, Collaboration Code: How Men Lead Culture Change and Nurture Tomorrow’s Leaders.
Show Highlights:
- How Dr. Mitchell went from microbiology to her current work (developing leaders).
- We discuss the Women’s Leadership BlueprintTM, a gender-specific, research-based model describing the unique profile of behaviors that top leaders have in common, and the Men’s New Leadership BlueprintTM: how these two models compare – where they overlap and how they diverge.
- Carol’s recently published article, “Collaborative Leadership: A Cure for Corporate Crisis and Change.”
- Research indicates senior management teams with a higher representation of women outperform those with fewer women.Why is this the case?
- How she was “discovered” by Arianna Huffington.
Background on Dr. Mitchell:
Author of an Amazon bestseller, Breaking Through “Bitch”- How Women Can Shatter Stereotypes and Lead Fearlessly, which lays out a behavioral roadmap for women’s leadership success; praised by Annie McKee as taking emotional intelligence to the next level; reviewed by Fortune as “shedding some much needed light” on “how women avoid being called ‘the B-word’” and acclaimed by executive coaches and advisors as getting to the heart of issues women face.
Contributing editor for HuffPost at the personal request of Arianna Huffington, publishing numerous articles on issues for women in business that have trended on social media and been republished on other outlets such as USA Today, WorldNews, and Headline News. Published articles in Fast Company, Safari Books, The Globe and Mail. Featured on the Kathryn Zox Show, WBZ radio’s “Women’s Watch” and the Judith Regan show.
A go-to speaker for companies and professional associations including: Society of Human Resource Management, Healthcare Business Women’s Association, Wharton Women in Business, American Chemical Society, Villanova Women in Business, Forum of Executive Women, American Council on Education, IWLC, Accenture, Genex, GE, VWR.
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