Elisabeth Debold sur le leadership féminin à Paris

Dr Elisabeth Debold

Elisabeth Debold, donnera une conférence à Paris le 27 juin prochain sur le leadership féminin.
Elisabeth Debold a notamment co-fondé avec Carol Gilligan (connue notamment pour ses travaux sur le "Care") le Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls Development. 

interview d'Elisabeth lors de sa venue

Présentation de la conférence

Bio D'Elisabeth Debold:

Elizabeth Debold, Ed.D., bestselling author, transformative educator, keynote speaker and consultant, has worked at the forefront of gender and cultural evolution for over three decades. Her lifelong pursuit of a higher order freedom, creativity, and equality between the sexes has taken her from door-to-door activism for the Equal Rights Amendment to groundbreaking research on gender development at Harvard University to an evolutionary collective of women at EnlightenNext, whose mission is to forge a new consciousness and culture between women.

After serving two elected terms as VP-Programs in the National Organization for Women, New York City, she joined Dr. Carol Gilligan at Harvard University as a founding member of the Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development. Dr. Debold received her doctorate in human development and psychology in 1996. Her groundbreaking research with the Harvard Project earned her an international reputation as a leading developmental theorist. Her bestselling book, Mother Daughter Revolution: From Good Girls to Great Women, was heralded by Gloria Steinem and Dr. Gilligan as “the book women have been waiting for.”

Realizing that girls’ lives will not be different unless women change culture, Dr. Debold undertook to experiment with her own life and self to discover the next step forward. Since the late 1990s, in collaboration with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, she has been a core member of an “evolutionary incubator” dedicated to evolving culture through the spiritual liberation of women. She now is a Senior Fellow at Cohen’s nonprofit, EnlightenNext, where she served from 2002-2011 as Senior Editor of EnlightenNext (formerly What Is Enlightenment?) Magazine. She is a Senior Teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment.

Dr. Debold has developed a reputation for the transformational power of her programs. She created and directed the Ms. Foundation for Women’s Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women, which funded cutting-edge programs for girls nation-wide. She has developed groundbreaking women’s courses and seminars at EnlightenNext and served as Academic Director of the Master of Arts program in Conscious Evolution at The Graduate Institute. She has also taught at Harvard University and the New School for Social Research.

Dr. Debold has been sought as an expert on girls, women, and the evolution of culture by major media outlets in the U.S. and abroad and has lectured in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She has consulted to numerous films and television programs, as well as to foundations, nonprofit educational organizations, corporate law firms, and businesses. Her work has appeared in academic publications, popular media, and international anthologies as well as in EnlightenNext magazine. She has made multiple appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, and NPR, and was featured in a major Lifetime documentary on girls’ development. Her most recent film, A Seat at the Table, based on her work with girls at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, will be released in Spring, 2012. She lives in Lenox, Massacusetts.

Portrait d' Anne Lauvergeon sur France 5

Anne Lauvergeon

A ne pas manquer: la rediffusion du dernier épisode de la série Empreinte consacrée à Anne Lauvergeon...ils ne sont pas si nombreux les portraits de dirigeantes d'entreprises. Celui-ci est un vrai régal même si mon préféré demeure le portrait de Gisèle Halimi

Voir le documentaire sur Pluzz - France 5

Quand l'entreprise nous permet d'être nous-mêmes

Michel Landel, CEO Sodexo

Lorsqu'une entreprise s'engage activement pour développer la diversité en son sein, ses managers développent-ils un leadership plus authentique ( i.e. plus proche de leur identité et talents véritables) ?

C'est la question qu'explorera l'un de mes prochains projets de recherche mené en partenariat avec le groupe Sodexo, et en collaboration avec Sarah Saint-Michel, Chercheur à Paris I.

Le groupe Sodexo se distingue aujourd'hui par sa politique active en faveur de la diversité et plus particulièrement de la mixité H/F. Les résultats en termes de partage du pouvoir chez Sodexo sont déja là, mais qu'en est-il des effets sur le leadership des managers?

Dans cette nouvelle étude, Sarah et moi-même étudierons comment un contexte positif en matière de mixité (i.e. une entreprise qui investit positivement et fortement cet enjeu) permet aux managers de développer un leadership authentique, en particulier les managers femmes (mais pas seulement).

Le leadership authentique est une nouvelle théorie du leadership (Gardner, et al, 2011) qui postule que l’authenticité (i.e. la connaissance de soi et la capacité à agir de façon consistante ou cohérente avec le meilleur de ce soi) est le socle de tout style de leadership et assure sa moralité en même temps que sa durabilité. Le Leadership authentique est mesuré via une échelle comportementale en 16 points.

Les travaux de recherche ont montré que le leadership authentique est source de satisfaction, de bien-être et de performance pour les équipes, mais également d’éthique et de capacité transformationnelle chez le leader.

Mais, les travaux de recherche (Eagly, 2010, 2005) suggèrent également, qu’il est parfois difficile pour une femme de faire preuve de leadership authentique dans la mesure où cette authenticité va de paire avec l’expression de sa « différence » et ce faisant l’éloigne du stéréotype du leader (qui est un homme avec des traits masculins).

Nous aimerions montrer comment un climat organisationnel positif (i.e. qui favorise la diversité) permet de surmonter cet obstacle qui se pose à tous ceux qui ne correspondent pas à la conception étroite (et faiblement productive) que le sens commun a du leader.

Notre conviction, basée sur les travaux antérieurs, est que la performance de l’entreprise repose sur la diversité de ses talents et notamment ceux des leaders de l’entreprise. Cette diversité, dépend elle-même de la capacité de l’organisation et des individus à développer un leadership authentique, i.e. au plus proche de la singularité de chacun et au service du collectif.

L'enquête débutera à la rentrée, les premiers résultats seront communiqués à l'été 2013...


Lire l'interview de Michel Landel sur la mixité

BEST OF DAY 2012 EPWN le 15 juin prochain

Retrouvez-moi le 15 juin prochain pour la journée organisée par EPWN France

j'y animerai un atelier sur les styles de leadership.

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Présentations de la journée (EPWN)

There are at least ten Reasons Why You Can’t Afford To Miss Best Of! 2012. This event is open to members and non-members. Register Now!

Members can register before May 15^th at the early bird rate. Invite your male friends and colleagues to join us.

Non-members go to http://www.europeanpwn.net/paris then click on “Paris” then “Calendar” or directly to http://epwn.etheryl.net/events/3885

There will be men. You say you’ve had enough of men and that was not the purpose of joining EuropeanPWN? Think again. Let me assure you that the men who will be participating in this event are VERY BRAVE. And they have a genuine interest in advancing gender diversity. We need their help to empower women in the workplace.

You will come away more knowledgeable. This year we have invited speakers from the academic world: Françoise Milewski from Science-Po and Pascal Picq from College de France. Françoise leads the Presage program at Science Po, the first gender study department in France to offer this topic in all curriculums. She will present the evolution of women in the workforce since the 1950’s. Paléoantropologue, Pascal Picq will explain evolutionist theories, how they apply to the economy and work environment and, more importantly, what they tell us about gender diversity

You will renew your hope that men and women can collaborate. The morning panel on entrepreneurs, male and female, will be led by Denis Jaquet, CEO of Yateo and President of Parrainer la croissance. At the afternoon plenary, Françoise Gri, President of Manpower France, and Gérald Karsenti, President of HP France, will share their experiences of men and women working together in the corporate world. Once colleagues at IBM, they are now in different companies.

You will learn how to become a board member. Marie-Claude Peyrache, co-leader of the BoardWomen Partners initiative in the session Men and Women on Boards will be joined by a consultant from an executive search firm and board members of both sexes to discuss what works and what doesn’t, where the obstacles lie and offer some advice. You can also register for personal speed coaching sessions by the EuropeanPWN Women on Boards Club.

You will discover hidden gender stereotypes. You can’t put your finger on it but you always thought there is something bizarre about the term women in leadership? Valérie Petit, Professor at Edhec business school, will explain why during a morning session about the assumptions we make regarding leadership and gender attributes and why these assumptions can prevent women from moving up the ladder. Aude Bohu, an executive coach at Talentis will identify the stereotypes that we have about gender without being aware of it.

You will appreciate social networking at its true value. André Dan, Fadhila Brahimi, Jean-François Ruiz and Yann Gourvennec, all heavy users of social networks, will explain how they use the networks and why. Careful, you may become addicted. You will certainly want to follow up in the afternoon workshop led by Andre Mechaly and Stéphane Lapeyrade, social network experts from Alcatel-Lucent.  You will also learn how to twit on the EuropeanPWN social network! 

Fine tune your personal branding, gain assertiveness and adopt body posture to match. You are the best ever, but do others see that? LinkedIn, a Gold Sponsor for the BestOf! 2012, will lead a workshop on personal branding. Laurence DiLouya CEO of Arret sur Image will lead a workshop that will give you tips on how to develop your assertiveness. Véronique Schapiro Chatenay will demonstrate the best body postures for exuding confidence through simple exercises. La totale for presenting a new, unbeatable you!

You will gain political savvy. Maybe you don’t like office politics but you sometimes get the impression you missed something? Valérie Rocoplan, CEO of Talentis, will lead the workshop on Political Savvy so you can learn to play the game in a smart way.

You can get a new photo to project the new you. Tired of the picture of you on Linkedin and want to convey something different? The conference’s tradeshow offers a free make-up session and professional photo shoot for your linkedIn account.

You will have a good time. None of us can afford to waste time. That’s why we have put so much effort into building a strong agenda set in a bucolic venue for this year’s Best Of! The rest is up to you, participants, who will ensure the success of this event through your enthusiasm and active participation.