Want More Diverse Senior Leadership? Sponsor Junior Talent.

Herminia Ibarra and Nana von Bernuth Leadership HBR

Sponsorship is emerging as a valuable tool for increasing diversity in an organization’s senior ranks. The authors define sponsorship as “a helping relationship in which seHernior, powerful people use their personal clout to talk up, advocate for, and place a more junior person in a key role.” In this piece, they define a number of specific do’s and don’t’s that …

The questions every corporate innovation leader asks about culture, answered

Thomas Brown, Herminia Ibarra Leadership Sifted

In part four of #FutureProofonCulture, we put some of the most common culture questions to a renowned expert in organisational behaviour BY THOMAS BROWN / 30 NOVEMBER 2021 Creating an innovation culture is a complex task of orchestrating people, teams and mindsets, and no matter how many management books you read it is always unpredictable.  There are certain aspects that seem to …

The 3 Phases of Making a Major Life Change

Herminia Ibarra Leadership HBR

The lockdown that we’ve all just lived through created a period during which a lot of people had the opportunity to reflect on plans for a career change. But reflection alone doesn’t get people very far. Those who are mostly likely to act during this kind of period are those who actively engage in a three-part cycle of transition — …