Mentorship? It’s all about Executive Sponsorship! Empower Your Executives to Become Inclusion Champions
In the next five years, 84% of organizations expect to have a shortfall of leaders—and this trend has worsened as women and other underrepresented groups continue to opt down or out of the workforce all together.
It is more important than ever to create the next generation of ready-now, diverse leaders.
But how? Join Kristen Howe, Chief Product Officer at Linkage, a SHRM company, to learn how you can turn your executive leaders into inclusion champions who serve as formal Executive Sponsors of key talent.
This session will empower you to begin a critical conversation about Executive Sponsorship at your organization and will help you identify four common pitfalls Human Resources professionals should avoid as they create and implement an Executive Sponsorship strategy at their organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore how Executive Sponsorship differs from informal mentorship and understand how it can drive meaningful impact in your DEI metrics.
- Discover four common pitfalls to avoid as you develop and implement an Executive Sponsorship strategy and program for your talent.
- Learn best practices for adding Executive Sponsorship to your DEI toolkit and gain next steps you can immediately take to begin a critical conversation at your organization.
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Kristen Howe
Kristen Howe is the Chief Product Officer at Linkage, where she oversees Product Management and Product Development. She has over 20 years of experience building and leading businesses in the leadership and development space, with a focus on leadership development, sales, coaching and facilitation.
Kristen is passionate about building products that foster inclusive behavior, positive corporate performance and business outcomes. She strives to create products that help global organizations develop key segments of their business, in both live settings and through digital platforms. She empowers teams by developing smart and efficient processes designed to utilize the individual skills of every team member, all while optimizing overall performance.
Kristen is a highly sought-after leadership consultant and speaker, with a deep expertise in Advancing Women Leaders and Inclusive Leadership. She has delivered programs and keynotes to thousands of leaders globally at organizations such as the Chief HR Officer Exchange, The Chief Learning Officer Exchange, Constellation Brands, The Tata Group, Western Union, and Texas Instruments, among others. She is also an emcee at Linkage’s Women in Leadership Institute™, an immersive experience which attracts more than 1,400 women leaders across the globe each year.
Background & Experience:
Prior to joining Linkage, Kristen spent the last decade growing businesses within Corporate Executive Board (CEB), now Gartner. During her time there, she led multiple teams across the Talent Solutions business, focusing on conceptualizing, building, selling and delivering talent solutions based on CEB data. She also ran CEB’s Leadership Academies business, which developed more than 30,000 professionals at 2,100 companies throughout 50 countries; Kristen was consistently recognized as one of the top managers and coaches across the entire firm.
Education & Training:
Kristen previously served in a variety of roles including global facilitator, consultant and engineer. She has a Master of Business Administration from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University.