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Women and Men: Leading Together
with Melissa Lamson
Melissa Lamson is one of the world’s foremost global business consultants. She works with top leaders to cultivate successful results and nancial wins by developing global mindset, bridging cultures, and collaborating across diverse teams. She’s worked in over 40 countries, across all industries, affording
her invaluable expertise in helping organizations expand globally, improve time-to-market, and increase pro ts. She has offered hundreds of companies the tools and insights to build successful leaders and effective teams in every corner of the world.
Melissa has authored ve books, including “#WomenAdvance,” “#BridgingCultures,” “#CulturalTransformation,” and “No Such Thing as Small Talk: 7 Keys for Understanding German Business Culture.”
McKinsey and Catalyst found that companies with higher performance had more women in top management. There is a direct ROI in leveraging gender diversity.
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Recognize the rewards that come when managers and leaders re ect on their own behaviors and adapt their communication
Understand and manage the needs of women and men to guarantee company success
Uncover hidden biases to radically change the way men and women communicate, leading to a transformed culture