New Book Release Co-Authored by
Andersen Alumnus Janet
Foutty: Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating
Leadership
Author:
Janet Foutty, Former consultant in Arthur Andersen
Consulting, currently Executive Chair of the Board for Deloitte US.
There
is a big difference –especially for women leaders – between being in a position
of leadership and thriving in a position of leadership. Because, for far too
long, women leaders have had to focus on survival. After all, women comprise
less than a quarter of middle level managers, and that number shrinks even
further at each rung of the corporate ladder. Even women who rise all the way to
CEO experience higher turnover than their male counterparts do. But surviving
as a leader is the floor, not the ceiling.
So, what does it take to not only
reach the top, but truly thrive there?
Arrive
and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership
is a timely and practice-driven guide to empower women leaders to excel as they
rise to positions of greater responsibility, risk, and reward—and to lead
others along the way. It offers insights from a unique trio of women leaders
from different spheres—Janet Foutty, the first woman to be named CEO of
Deloitte’s Consulting business, and now chair of the Deloitte U.S. Board; Lynn
Perry Wooten, Ph.D., the first African American to lead Simmons University; and
Susan MacKenty Brady, globally renowned Leadership Wellbeing Expert and CEO of
the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership.
The authors also draw on knowledge
and advice from 24 of the world’s most successful leaders to identify the seven
key practices to thriving as a leader:
- Invest in your best self.
This entails getting to know yourself when you’re at your best and leading
from that place.
- Cultivate courage
by committing to action and overcoming your fear of doing so.
- Foster resilience
to enable you to overcome setbacks and lead more powerfully.
- Inspire a bold vision
by discovering what needs to change and creating a future that does not
yet exist.
- Create a healthy team
environment that personifies your
organization’s values and is supportive and collaborative.
- Lead inclusively
by modeling it for others and creating a culture of equity.
- Embrace authenticity
and bringing your whole self to work.
By
adopting these practices, women leaders can enact change for themselves,
their team and their community. They’ll have the confidence to “hit reset” on the way we work in order to create more
equitable organizations that promote leading while living.
Learn more at arriveandthrive.com