Giving Voice to Your Values: The "How" of Values-Driven Leadership
How can you effectively stand up for your values when pressured by your boss, colleagues, customers, or shareholders to do the opposite? Many of us want to act on our values, but lack the tools and the strategies to be successful within our teams and organizations. On this webinar, Dr. Mary Gentile will share a ground-breaking new approach to prepare business managers and leaders for values-driven action. Hear real experiences of business practitioners, and walk away with a new approach to values-driven leadership and be inspired to act on your values.
Mary C. Gentile, PhD, is Creator/Director of Giving Voice to Values, Senior Research Scholar at Babson College, Senior Advisor at Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, and consultant on management education and leadership development. Among numerous other awards, Gentile was named as one of the ”Top Thought Leaders in Trust: 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners” by Trust Across America-Trust Around the World, January 2015.
Giving Voice to Values, a pioneering business curriculum for values-driven leadership, has been featured in Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, McKinsey Quarterly, etc. and piloted in over 780 business schools and organizations globally. The award-winning book is Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right(www.MaryGentile.com), with translations in Chinese, Spanish and forthcoming in Korean. Gentile has authored numerous books and articles and partnered with Nomadic.fm in 2014 to launch six online interactive social cohort-based modules around Giving Voice To Values (http://nomadic.fm/ProgDetailGivingVoiceToValues.html ).
From 1985 --95, Gentile was faculty member and manager of case research at Harvard Business School and one of the principal architects of HBS’s Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility curriculum. She co-authored Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at Harvard Business School and was Content Expert for the award-winning interactive CD-ROM, Managing Across Differences (HBS Publishing).
Gentile earned her Bachelor’s degree from The College of William and Mary and her MA and PhD from State University of New York-Buffalo.