NEW! Leadership Strategies for Effective Allyship
Rayona shares how being an ally can have a lasting impact, especially when allies implement the 3 P’s: Push, Promote and Protect. “In today’s world, allies need to really pour on the attention and have a weekly conversation, be diligent and authentic.” (18 min.)
The Power of Engaging Men as Allies
Rayona keynotes the American Institute of CPAs Global Women’s Leadership Summit. She makes a forceful argument for why women need men to help businesses achieve gender equality. She also suggests how women can partner with men in new ways, inside their profession and for their client companies, to create a strong business case for gender partnership. (50 min.)
Gender Partnership: It’s a Two-Way Street
Rayona, speaking at the Better Man Conference, explores what it will take to create true Gender Partnership in the workplace. She makes the dual points that women need to heal THEIR bias against men for having had decades of privilege, and men need to release their desire to hang onto the benefits of that privilege — which exists at the cost of women’s equality. (12 min., 30 sec)
Cracking the Code of Gender Partnership
Rayona talks Gender Partnership during a keynote speech to a gathering of Diversity and Inclusion managers: “It’s really important for us to see that in 30,000 years of human history, to be at this moment makes what you’re doing the most important work on the planet.” (4 min.)
Faculty member Chris Steely on Confronting Unconscious Bias and Sexism in Five Minutes
Chris Steely addresses a diverse audience in this rapid-fire rundown of the key points on how individual leaders can tackle unconscious bias at their companies. (5 min.)
Gender Partnership: a 21st Century Economic Imperative
Rayona addresses an audience of San Francisco Bay Area business and public sector leaders on the vital importance of using 100 percent of the talent and brain power available to them. (16 min.)
Gender Partnership: More Crucial Now Than Ever Before
Rayona, in a keynote address to the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association in 2016, talks about why we need Gender Partnership to guarantee the future of our society. She says, “I think we are entering an era of intractable, complex difficulties… and it’s going to take both of us (men and women) to solve this. It hasn’t been this way since the beginning of recorded time. How are we going to be the ones we’ve been waiting for?” (50 min.)
Advancing Women as Leaders – Rayona Sharpnack
Rayona addresses the Bay Area Council Economic Institute on the value of women’s leadership. (2 min.)
Five Steps to Great Leadership
In this taped interview, Rayona introduces the key points in her book, Trade Up! 4 min, 18 sec
Radio Interviews and Podcasts with Rayona Sharpnack
“How Women Leaders Find Their Best Selves”
–Women’s Leadership Success podcast radio show: Listen or download MP3
“The Secrets of High Performance”
–Management Craft interviews Rayona
Creating Success interviews Rayona about “Trade Up!”
–Scroll down to the 7th interview on the page
Rayona’s Interview on Good Company with Michael Connor
—Part 1 | Part 2 Broadcast on Lime Radio, Sirius Satellite Channel 114