Learning From Senior Women Leaders

The Future of Leadership – Women and Men That Lead Like Them

Karl MooreAssociate Professor, McGill University

Associate Fellow Green Templeton College, Oxford University

A presentation give to + 80 managers at BombardierFriday, April 25, 2014 for more information email meat karl.moore@mcgill.ca

Generals Fight the Battles of Their Youth

Lessons to Trash

Information is power, hold it to your chest

Google…

Credentials matter Contribution matters Leaders are extroverts

Emerging Models

Millennial Leaders

Introverted Leaders

Women Leaders

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Learning From Senior Women Leaders

Research Base+ 300 interviews with C Suite Executives in North America,

Europe and Asia

Sir Richard Branson, General Martin Dempsey, Muhammad Yunus, Calin Rovinescu, Dick Evans, Pierre Beaudoin, Robert Brown, Michael Sabia, Robert Dutton, Moya Greene, Kevin Lynch, Pierre Lortie, Robert Milton, Arthur Porter, Mike Roach, Paul Tellier, Caryn Lerner, Robert Rabinovitch, Andre Navarra, Sheila Fraser, etc..

+ Co-teaching a MBA course, Role of the CEO with Dick Evans, just retired CEO of Alcan and Paul Tellier, Bombardier, CN, Clerk and last two year’s Zoe Yujnovich, CEO Iron Ore Company of Canada

+ Shadowing 15 senior women leaders

Research Limitations Generalizability

Qualified by:◦ Certain Generation◦ Senior Women Leaders – mainly CEOs

◦ DNA vs Socialization

The Future of Leadership – Women and Men that lead

like them

Collaboration

Empathy

Listening

Multitasking

Key Gold Standard Academic Research Findings

I tell a number of stories from my days shadowing women leaders

A key point is to encourage men to observe women leaders and to learn from them

“It’s not about being a great women leader, or male leader, these characteristics are about being an excellent leader.”

Shadowing Women Leaders

In general, however, older men tend to have lower testosterone levels than do younger men. Testosterone levels gradually decline throughout adulthood — about 1 percent a year after age 30 on average. - Mayo Clinic

Men often achieve new levels of maturity in their 40s and 50s and become more like women in some ways.

Changes over time

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