Good leadership is not about having the most knowledge or power but about how you make others feel.
Betsy Myers
Good leadership is not about having the most knowledge or power but about how you make others feel.
Betsy Myers
Betsy Myers
Betsy incorporates these key topics into any available format
We brought Betsy into our workplace as part of a pilot employee networking program, and she facilitated a well-attended session. The feedback we received was overwhelmingly positive and our team is already using the strategies they learned to break down silos and create better employee alignment and job satisfaction.
— Theresa E. Sciarappa
Leading with Both Head and Heart
Ignite your potential and transform your team
Is your team actively engaged, committed, and passionate about your mission and purpose?
Are you struggling with attracting and retaining top talent?
Head and Heart Leadership is key to moving toward your organization’s goals. Be inspired and motivated by real-world stories and examples of successful leaders, as Betsy guides your leadership team through a journey of self-discovery and growth.
Explore the wisdom of head and heart leadership:
- Uncover and analyze your leadership style and tackle the behaviors that impede personal and organizational success
- Strengthen your self-leadership to build the foundation upon which you lead others
- Learn how to foster a sense of community, connection, and caring in your organization, where employees can bring their authentic selves to work
Applying the wisdom of head and heart leadership energizes leaders to:
- champion your organization’s purpose with a well-developed strategy
- firmly grasp current data and trends
- lead with the compassion and emotional intelligence needed to connect with your team and your customers
Advancing Women Leaders
Changing the game for women in the workplace
Is advancing women a strategic priority in your organization?
Are you building a culture where women leaders can excel and flourish?
Do the women in your company feel valued and supported, so they can grow as individuals and leaders?
Gender parity isn’t a women’s issue – it’s a business issue.
50% of organizations have no clear strategy to advance women leaders. Nearly half of those that do have a plan do not address barriers faced by women, such as corporate culture. Last year, 45% more women than men left jobs in the top growth sectors, citing culture as the primary reason.
What is genuinely getting results?
The good news is that there are success stories and new ideas gaining traction, making a difference in retention, advancement, and engagement of women talent and women as customers.
Women leaders at all levels stay at their companies longer and excel in their careers when organizations address four key areas:
- Culture of inclusion, where the human aspect is present in every decision.
- Executive commitment and deliberate action to make women’s advancement a strategic priority.
- Focused and intentional leadership development programs, initiatives, and policies.
- Individual development opportunities for women to uncover behaviors and beliefs that create barriers to success.
The Individual Woman Leader
Taking charge of our own success
What does success look like at work and home?
When the stakes are high, organizational politics are at play, and your emotions are triggered, do you act consciously and strategically?
Are you waiting for someone to notice your efforts and good work?
Are you caught in a to-do list of demands, keeping you from getting to what matters in your life?
Every woman is a leader. It is our personal responsibility to be the leader of our life, and understand our strengths, weaknesses and what might be holding us back.
The hardest person we will ever manage is ourselves, but we must start there. The key is a commitment to self-awareness and self- knowledge. Looking outside ourselves for our value, or waiting for someone to notice our greatness, is a dead end. We must instead take the reins of our careers and our lives. We cannot lead others before we understand ourselves. Our willingness to lead ourselves is where our true power lies, and how we will achieve the results we desire in our personal and professional lives.
Work with Betsy to examine the key aspects of self-leadership:
- Self-awareness: Knowing your strengths, weaknesses, values, beliefs, and emotions. The willingness to understand what gives you energy and what might be holding you back
- Self-motivation: Being clear about your why and what success looks like for you professionally and personally. Combining discipline, the willingness to seek support and mentorship, and building the confidence muscle to move toward your goals, even when faced with challenges
- Social awareness: Being aware of the social context around you and understanding how others perceive, hear, and interact with you. Being your authentic self while also strategic, to succeed in the role you have chosen
Learn tools and action steps to support your own objectives, and create a strategy to become the leader of yourself.
Women and Worthiness
The root of success
Is fear of taking risks holding you back from reaching for what you want?
Do you often feel you must work harder and contribute more than your share at work and home to prove your worth?
Does your own success come with anxiety, because your self-doubt makes you sometimes feel like you’re a fraud?
Standing in the way of women’s advancement is their often overlooked relationship with worthiness.
Wherever you are on your personal leadership journey, Betsy’s insights, along with The Worthy Meter©, can empower you with a new understanding of how to build your self-worth muscle.
- Explore where our sense of worthiness comes from, what it is influenced by, including our family of origin, societal and cultural messages and norms, and life’s circumstances
- Examine how many issues - among them lack of confidence, fear of taking risks, setting poor boundaries, people-pleasing, or choosing unhealthy relationships - stem from our struggles with self-worth
- Learn about imposter syndrome - what it is and how it may be affecting your ability to embrace your success
The Worthy Meter©
Betsy has developed a powerful tool to help participants examine their relationship with self worth. The Worthy Meter© serves as a guide to shining a light on beliefs and habits that exacerbate unworthiness. The Worthy Meter© teaches how to be alert to unproductive behaviors—and a road map to choose differently.
This session offers a supportive space to explore self-worth and how it may be holding many women back.
Great job Betsy! Our survey results after your September speech were extremely positive. 97% of women thought the content was relevant and something that they could apply to their own jobs. Well done and extremely effective. Thank you again.