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Workplace ForwardAuthor: Bright Arrow Coaching
The Workplace Forward Podcast is designed to empower perpetually busy, always overstretched senior leaders to prioritize professional development. We aim to answer the question: what behaviors, practices, beliefs, and skills must the future leader possess so that they can successfully lead systems that have changed (and will continue to) at warp speed? The Workplace Forward Podcast provides senior-level leaders and executives with essential insights they can use to navigate the future workplacealong with best practices on bringing out the more human side of leadership. The Podcast features Tegan's interviews with executives, experts, authors, and innovators about their leadership journeys. Tegan's conversations focus on workplace issues, business initiatives, and self-care solutions that will help executives take well-deserved time to learn, recharge, and stay ahead of the curve on emerging leadership ideas to gain peace of mind. Language: en Genres: Business, Careers, Management Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Creating Diverse Leadership Teams with Gotara Founder D Sangeeta
Episode 16
Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
Even if you're committed to making your organization and its C-suite leadership more diverse, your network tends to look like you. And as a result, you build a team of people like you. But if you seek out coworkers with complementary skills who are willing to challenge you, your team will perform better and have more fun doing it. So, what can we do as leaders to create a more diverse talent pipeline at work? D Sangeeta is Founder and CEO at Gotara, a career growth platform for women in STEM. Gotara provides mentoring and nano-learning programs based on the latest research with the goal of closing the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math. Sangeeta spent two decades in the corporate world, leading teams at Amazon, Nielson and GE Aviation before launching Gotara in June 2020. She has a PhD in Materials Chemistry from the University of Illinois, holds 26 patents and is the recipient of the Nielson CEO Award, the National Women of Color in Technology Award and the GE Latimer Innovation Award. On this episode of Workplace Forward, Sangeeta joins me to discuss what gets in the way of creating diverse leadership teams, challenging us to hold space for differing opinions and healthy conflict in our organizations. Sangeeta explains how to create more diverse talent pipelines and why it's good for business, describing the Ally Stars and North Star Program Gotara offers current executives and emerging female leaders. Listen in for Sangeeta's actionable advice on promoting diversity of thought at work and learn how Gotara can support you in building diverse leadership teams in your organization. Themes explored in this week's episode: What inspired Sangeeta to build a career growth platform for women in STEM What gets in the way of creating diverse leadership teams Growing your capacity to hold space for differing opinions and healthy conflict How to create a more diverse talent pipeline in your organization How a diverse leadership pipeline impacts top-line growth, productivity and net profit Gotara's Ally Stars program to help leaders remove bias and promote inclusivity How Sangeeta's North Star Program serves emerging female leaders What you can do from your seat today to promote diversity of thought at work Sangeeta's take on why leaders need to be willing to break the rules How Sangeeta's leadership has evolved through the volatility of the last 2 years Why leaders of the future need as much EQ as IQ and how women lead in crises Resources from this episode: Read along with this Workplace Forward Podcast episode's text transcript Connect with D Sangeeta and follow Gotara on LinkedIn Follow Gotara on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Learn more about Gotara at https://www.gotara.com/ Request a demo of Gotara's Ally or North Star Program Explore the research around women leaders in a crisis I would love to hear from you! Have an idea for a podcast or a question you want me to address? Interested in additional support, resources and workshops? Here are all the ways you can interact with me! Tweet me @TeganTrovato Email tegan@brightarrowcoaching.com Follow me on Facebook @BrightArrowCoaching Follow me on Instagram @TeganTrovato Connect with me on LinkedIn: Tegan Trovato Download free tools and sign up for my newsletter, coaching and workshops at https://www.brightarrowcoaching.com/
