Guest: Bonnie St. John, founder Blue Circle Leadership
Despite having her right leg amputated at age five, Bonnie St. John became the first African-American ever to win medals in Winter Olympic competition, taking home a silver and two bronze medals at the 1984 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Today, Bonnie St. John travels the globe as a keynote speaker, Fortune 100 leadership expert, and the bestselling author of seven books. Bonnie graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and served in the White House as a Director of the National Economic Council during the Clinton administration. She has been featured extensively in both national and international media. NBC Nightly News called Bonnie, “One of the five most inspiring women in America.”
For over 25 years, Blue Circle Leadership has partnered with innovative companies and organizations of all sizes to support leaders who are at the forefront of business transformations. They equip their Fortune 500 clients with unique tools and techniques to help them create a culture within their organizations that can sustain rapid growth, increase resilience, and thus generate breakthrough performance that transfers to bottom-line business results. Based on decades of experience plus expertise in academic research, instructional design, marketing, and business communication, they design customized, interactive, engaging, just-in-time solutions that guarantee the most efficient and actionable development experiences possible.
We have partnered with Bonnie on several research projects and she has been an annual speaker at Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Excellence Conference and Women and Leadership Summits over the last 5 years.
This year has been a challenging time for everyone with have to endure the pandemic, economic uncertainty and social injustices rising to our forefront. Leaders are struggling with how to lead, communicate as well as balance their personal home responsibilities and so in one of our discussions we thought it would be great to do a webinar together and share some of the research and case studies that Brandon Hall Group has gathered along with the work Bonnie is doing with her team at Blue Circle Leadership.
Rachel Cooke joins Fortune 100 leadership consultant Bonnie St. John for a lively dialogue around the key challenges facing top executives today. As an expert on resilience, Bonnie helps frame both the triggers and the solutions for leaders and their teams in these difficult times. These two successful women in business discuss their observations and suggestions about pivoting to the new paradigm of work-at-home teams. Bonnie also shares the concerns she is hearing from non-Black leaders who are struggling to navigate the racially charged events unfolding both domestically and around the world. You’ll hear her thoughts on behind-the-scenes conversions she’s having with women and minorities who are pressured to step up as leaders in this environment — which can be a blessing or a curse — and how to help their companies and families stay on track.
Topics and questions include:
- COVID-19’s impact on the workplace and diversity
- Insights from Bonnie’s personal journey
- Social injustice in the workplace
- Why ‘Politically Correct’ isn’t working
- Six steps to transform uncomfortable situations into opportunities to build relationships
- Making sense of today’s world
- Home work and the challenges of diversity
- Conversations about leadership with minorities
- And more!
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Please join our webinar on August 19th at 1:00PM – Courageous Humility: Leading with Resilience In these Challenging Times
Please join our webinar on August 19th at 1:00 PM — Courageous Humility: Leading with Resilience in these Challenging Times
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