As women make cracks in the glass ceiling, they challenge our ideas of what good leadership can and should look like.
With an estimated 50-75% leadership failure rate, leadership needs a makeover. Join leadership expert Kelsey Medeiros, PhD, as she draws on COVID-era lessons from some of the most powerful women in the world and reimagines what it means to be a leader.
About the speaker
Kelsey Medeiros, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) where she researches workplace troublemakers. She spends her days studying those who behave unethically, push past boundaries in pursuit of creative solutions, commit and report sexual harassment, and the women who break down gender norms and stereotypes to pursue leadership roles.
Kelsey is currently working on her first solo-authored book focused on lessons learned from women in global leadership positions. She is also co-author of the book, Ethics Training for Managers: Best Practices and Techniques. In addition to sharing research through writing, Kelsey also consults with organizations to provide science-based solutions to organizational issues.
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As I’ve spent time in the academic and popular literatures, which is my job – to read, I quickly realized that our foundational understanding of what it means to be an effective leader has not adapted as the demographic topography of leadership has shifted. This is holding us all back from reaching our potential and success.
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