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Here’s a list of terrific women leaders with smart ideas and experiences to share on the topics of self-management, the future of work, new models of leadership, responsive organizations, and new ways of working. (Don’t tell us you can’t find any women to speak at your conference or join your panel.)
- Anne-Marie Slaughter (New America, author of Unfinished Business)
- Martha Lane-Fox (UK Govt Digital Champion)
- Amy C. Edmondson (Harvard Business School, author of Teaming)
- Alexis Gonzales-Black (Thoughtful Org, formerly @ Zappos)
- Debra France, Ed.D. (W.L. Gore)
- Irene Au (Kholsa Ventures)
- Margaret Stewart (Facebook)
- Jennifer Dulski (President Change.org)
- Tiffany Jana (Co-Founder & CEO at TMI Consulting)
- Polly LaBarre (Management Innovation Exchange)
- Alexa Clay (author of The Misfit Economy)
- Kappie Farrington (Founding Member, August)
- Erica Seldin (Founding Member, August)
- Alix Zacharias (Founding Member, August)
- Alanna Krause (Loomio and Enspiral, writes about bossless leadership)
- Lucy Blair Chung (UsTwo, Nobl)
- Lindsay McGregor (Vega Factor, co-author of Primed to Perform)
- Christina Bowen (Sageland)
- Anne McCrossan (Visceral Business)
- Amandah Wood (Ways We Work)
- Laura James (http://lbj.org.uk/)
- Beth Viner (Interbrand)
- Melanie Schmid (NetCentric)
- Susan Basterfield (Open To Grow)
- Katy Langstaff (Autopoiesis)
- Céline Schillinger (Change Agents Worldwide)
- Pamela Morgan (Graceful Systems)
- Emer Coleman (Dsrptn)
- Naureen Manekia Seyal (Medium)
- Leanne Wong (ItBit)
- Shireen Yates (Co-founder 6sensorlabs)
- Cari Caldwell (Future Considerations)
- Laura-Jane Parker (Postshift)
- Cerys Hearsey (Postshift)
- Rebecca Kemp (UK Trade & Investments)
- Anna Zanghi (MasterCard)
- Zofia Ciechowska (Spotify)
- Vivienne Ming (Socos)
- Rebecca Colwell (Ten Directions – Integral Facilitator)
- Deldelp Medina (Avion Ventures)
- Karin Klein (Bloomberg Beta)
- Mukara Meredith (Matrixworks: Enlightened Feminine Leadership)
- Michelle Zaffino (Founder, In the Stacks & the Librarian Brain database)
- Minda Aguhob (Peakfoqus, TEDxBushwick)
- Servane Mouazan (Founder and CEO Ogunte CIC for Women Social Entrepreneurs)
- Silke Helfrich (Founding Member of Commons Strategies Group)
- Traci Fenton (Founder of WorldBlu)
- Margaret Wheatley (author of Leadership and the New Science)
- Peggy Holman (Exec. Dir. of Journalism That Matters, and author of Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity)
- Juanita Brown, Ph.D. (Co-founder of The World Café)
- Emily Axelrod (Co-Founder of The Axelrod Group)
- Diana Whitney (President Corp. for Positive Change)
- Lani Morris (author of The Map of Meaning)
- Rosie Siman Yakob (Co-founder of Genius Steals)
- Julia Roy (Founder of Work Hacks)
- Nicole D’Alonzo (Founder of Victory Rituals)
- danah boyd (Microsoft Research Labs and author of It’s Complicated)
- Karilen Mays (Partner at HolacracyOne)
- Jenni Lloyd (creator/curator of Meaning Conference)
- Zoe Scaman (ex Undercurrent / ex Adidas)
- Jessie Punia (ex IBM, ex UC)
- Catherine Shinners (Merced Group and Change Agents Worldwide)
- Carrie Basham Young (Co-Founder of Socialcast, Principal of Talk Social To Me)
- Tash Wong (Co-Founder of Coastermatic)
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Darshita Gillies, Future Considerations
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Celine McKeown, Future Considerations
I have recently become an Associate at Future Considerations and these three people should definitely be on your list.
Love the idea behind this. Recently saw on FB the post with a photo of the world leaders and then the same photo without the male world leaders. Wah! It shocked me (again)!
Am wondering what is wanting to happen from the creation of this list??
Thank you Jackie for your comment and question.
it’s not my list, but a public list created by an amazing self-managing company called August http://aug.co/#home . As I understand, anybody can add names to it here, but the list owner has to approve it.
Catarina Tully, who attended our last Teal Community of practice (UK) meeting called my attentin to a more exrensive database of women experts available in the Women’s Room.
Hi all,
Suggesting Nina Sochon, CEO Transformed Teams – a leading authority in Australia and New Zealand on the strategy and implementation of remote work and distributed teams.
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Many more from the non-English-speaking world that the editors might not know or be able to verify online…