The Leaders You Need: How to Create Diverse Leadership Teams for a More Dynamic, Resilient Future
An innovative, field-tested framework for leaders and managers on how to create more diverse leadership and management teams.


We need the strength that comes from diversity more now than we ever have in our collective memory. Without leadership teams that reflect the full range of humanity, for-profit and nonprofit organizations alike will find it more difficult to confront today’s challenges and are unlikely to thrive in the long term. But no two organizations have the same need for greater diversity in leadership nor the same path to achieving it. In The Leaders You Need, Karen Brown offers an innovative, field-tested ABCD Framework that will help readers to discover the hidden leadership and management talent in their organizations—and how to harness it.

Karen Brown shares the approach she has used to guide organizations from small nonprofits to the Global 500 on their journey to greater diversity in leadership and management. Her framework consists of four pillars:
• How to align diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts with business priorities
• How to build strong partnerships with stakeholders
• How to cultivate a culture of role models
• How to define objectives and outcomes with data
Readers will learn how to use the framework to identify and dismantle the barriers to greater leadership and management diversity in their organizations. What’s more, they will get practical advice on how to become inclusive leaders who create opportunities for everyone on their teams to learn, grow, and fulfill their potential.
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The Leaders You Need: How to Create Diverse Leadership Teams for a More Dynamic, Resilient Future
An innovative, field-tested framework for leaders and managers on how to create more diverse leadership and management teams.


We need the strength that comes from diversity more now than we ever have in our collective memory. Without leadership teams that reflect the full range of humanity, for-profit and nonprofit organizations alike will find it more difficult to confront today’s challenges and are unlikely to thrive in the long term. But no two organizations have the same need for greater diversity in leadership nor the same path to achieving it. In The Leaders You Need, Karen Brown offers an innovative, field-tested ABCD Framework that will help readers to discover the hidden leadership and management talent in their organizations—and how to harness it.

Karen Brown shares the approach she has used to guide organizations from small nonprofits to the Global 500 on their journey to greater diversity in leadership and management. Her framework consists of four pillars:
• How to align diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts with business priorities
• How to build strong partnerships with stakeholders
• How to cultivate a culture of role models
• How to define objectives and outcomes with data
Readers will learn how to use the framework to identify and dismantle the barriers to greater leadership and management diversity in their organizations. What’s more, they will get practical advice on how to become inclusive leaders who create opportunities for everyone on their teams to learn, grow, and fulfill their potential.
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The Leaders You Need: How to Create Diverse Leadership Teams for a More Dynamic, Resilient Future

The Leaders You Need: How to Create Diverse Leadership Teams for a More Dynamic, Resilient Future

by Karen Brown
The Leaders You Need: How to Create Diverse Leadership Teams for a More Dynamic, Resilient Future

The Leaders You Need: How to Create Diverse Leadership Teams for a More Dynamic, Resilient Future

by Karen Brown

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An innovative, field-tested framework for leaders and managers on how to create more diverse leadership and management teams.


We need the strength that comes from diversity more now than we ever have in our collective memory. Without leadership teams that reflect the full range of humanity, for-profit and nonprofit organizations alike will find it more difficult to confront today’s challenges and are unlikely to thrive in the long term. But no two organizations have the same need for greater diversity in leadership nor the same path to achieving it. In The Leaders You Need, Karen Brown offers an innovative, field-tested ABCD Framework that will help readers to discover the hidden leadership and management talent in their organizations—and how to harness it.

Karen Brown shares the approach she has used to guide organizations from small nonprofits to the Global 500 on their journey to greater diversity in leadership and management. Her framework consists of four pillars:
• How to align diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts with business priorities
• How to build strong partnerships with stakeholders
• How to cultivate a culture of role models
• How to define objectives and outcomes with data
Readers will learn how to use the framework to identify and dismantle the barriers to greater leadership and management diversity in their organizations. What’s more, they will get practical advice on how to become inclusive leaders who create opportunities for everyone on their teams to learn, grow, and fulfill their potential.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262049085
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/15/2024
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 238,414
Product dimensions: 6.31(w) x 9.31(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Karen Brown is a management consultant with 35 years of experience as a leader in corporate operations and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her work has been published in Building and Encouraging Law Firm Diversity, Chicago Tribune, and Harvard Business Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A New Framework for Greater Diversity in Leadership
Chapter 1 Why Diversity Programs Don't Work—And What Does
The ABCD Framework
Chapter 2 Pillar A: How to Align Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Business Priorities
Chapter 3 Pillar B: How to Build Strong Partnerships with Stakeholders
Chapter 4 Pillar C: How to Cultivate a Culture with Role Models
Chapter 5 Pillar D: How to Define Objectives and Outcomes with Data
Using the ABCD Framework
Chapter 6 How to Use the ABCD Framework to Break Down Barriers
Chapter 7 How to Become an Inclusive Leader
Chapter 8 A Call to Action for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Leadership
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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From the Publisher

“Brown upends stale diversity, equity, and inclusion models that have generated backlash, instead offering an innovative and accessible framework focused ‘less on counting heads and more on making heads count.’ It’s a must-read for corporations and universities.”
—John Blaxland, Director, Australian National University North America Liaison Office; coauthor of Revealing Secrets
 
“As someone who has had the great fortune of learning the lessons in The Leaders You Need firsthand from the author throughout my career, I am thrilled to endorse this brilliant work. It underscores the role and responsibility of diverse leaders in inspiring those around them toward morally elevating purposes, driving organizational success.”
—Byron Slosar, CEO and Founder, hellohive
 
“An essential guide for leaders seeking to align diversity, equity, and inclusion with business priorities. This book provides a robust framework for identifying and dismantling barriers to greater leadership and management diversity, cultivating a culture of role models, and defining actionable objectives with data. A transformative resource for any organization committed to true inclusion and sustainable success.”
—Hege Sollie-Zetlmayer, Chief Human Resources Officer, PTC Therapeutics
 
“Karen Brown inspires us to reposition our focus from measuring diversity to elevating diverse leaders, so all employees can experience a collective sense of belonging and, at the same time, feel valued for their individual attributes.”
—Guy Pacitti, Director, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Bose Corporation 

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