Women who seek to rise, take note! This is your essential go-to guide. Also highly recommended for men who work with, for, or around women.
Pick up this book. Scan the 12 habits. Circle the top three that make you say 'that's me!' Read those chapters, commit to one of the suggestions, and you're on your way. The authors know their material!
founderof Career Systems International and co-auth Beverly Kaye
Extraordinary real-life stories of women who wait to be asked to the party, get stuck in their comfort zone, seek perfection, and assume their hard work will be recognized. Sally and Marshall show us how to get unstuck and to 'stand out' so women can move forward in more purposeful, powerful, and productive careers. This is a must read with great actionable advice!
Chief Executive Officer of Chadick Ellig and one o Janice Reals Ellig
I am broadly distributing Marshall's new book, How Women Rise , to our leaders across Best Buy, to help our women leaders achieve their career goals and mentor their female colleagues, and to help men better work with and support the development of their female colleagues.
Women suffer from gender bias and when they rise further, also from the general difficulties of leadership. When women approach the top of organizations, they can also bring their own strengths that may unfairly be seen as weaknesses. Sally Helgesen's expertise and Marshall Goldsmith's wisdom bring these insights to light, so that women and men and can do better together at reaching their goals for us all to move forward. This is a powerful and timely book.
Sally and Marshall give new meaning to the term 'dream team.' Together they have produced a masterpiece, an over-the-moon but magnificently down-to-earth leadership book for the ages.
bestselling author of In Search of Excellence: Tom Peters
The habits and beliefs in How Women Rise provide a wonderful and positive opportunity for women to be self-aware. Sally and Marshall show women how to make tangible and crisp changes that will help them be even more successful and fulfilled at work and at home.
SeniorVice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Aicha Evans
How Women Rise is absolutely the right book at the right time by the ideal authors. Sally and Marshall's experiences and perspectives in leadership development, career success, and professional and personal satisfaction are each world-class in their own right. But taken together, they are magnificently complementary, creating an inspiring and actionable guide that will change the careers and lives of women leaders everywhere.
leader of Spencer Stuart's CEO Practice and a James M. Citrin
The most powerful thing you can do for your career is to change what's in your control. Together, Marshall and Sally help women understand what they can change about their own behavior today to make greater contributions tomorrow. How Women Rise is a how-to guide for any woman seeking her next success.
A myth-busting "how to" for the next generation of women leaders, and those who want to see them succeed. These ideas will transform our workplaces, our careers, and our lives.
professor at Columbia BusinessSchool and a Thinker Rita McGrath
It's easy to find oneself in the pages of How Women Rise . Sally and Marshall teach us how to shift out of auto-pilot, jettison our success-inhibiting habits, and actively steer for the career destination we desire.
critically-acclaimed author of DisruptYourself Whitney Johnson
A gem and a revelation. If you lead women, work with women, are a woman or know any women, you must read this book. Its sage and sane wisdom points the way to a life of genuine purpose and meaning.
Whether you are just starting out in your career or a top executive, ample case studies, research, and wisdom make this engaging and actionable read a must read!
This is a must read for women aiming to get to the next level in their careers. It gives insights into challenges and practical tools to address them.
Compelling, practical and highly engaging. Women seeking to make a career in law can benefit greatly from reading How Women Rise .
The top 3 reasons why I loved Sally and Marshall's book How Women Rise ? 1) It's incredibly helpful to women, those with female colleagues or direct reports, and the healthy minority of men who are also more self-effacing than aggrandizing. 2) The book is filled with news you can use. It's has helped me, my C-level clients and will help you too. 3) The pages turn themselves. As a scientist as well as coach I can see the psychological and business sophistication behind the 12 habits. Start practicing today.
Harvard Medical School and Founder/Executive Direc CarolKauffman
Women leaders will be driving forces in twenty-first century organizations. Practically and persuasively, Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith map out how this can and must happen.
Founders of Thinkers50 Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove
Fast forward your career with one powerful book from two of the world's most brilliant coaches! Marshall's famous strategies for behavior change combined with Sally's profound expertise on women will change your life from the first chapter. Start reading this book now!
Founderand President Emeritus of Working Mother Me Carol Evans
How Women Rise is a great read for any woman who wants to identify self-defeating behaviors that are holding her back, gain insight into why she engages in those behaviors, and develop skills to confidently achieve her goals.
[An] insightful book.... [Helgesen and Goldsmith's] push for women to do a better job of claiming their achievements is a must-read.
A smart and well-researched handbook for women trying to make the next step in their careers.... Helgesen and Goldsmith offer much more than just insights into the what of habits that constrain. They provide detailed tutoring on how to replace them with behaviors that produce excellent results.
Sally and Marshall have written a practical and entertaining career guide tailored to help women ascend to senior leadership roles in business, government, and not-for-profits.
Chairmanand Founder of ghSMART and bestselling aut Geoff Smart
Sally and Marshall enable leaders who are women to move from where they are to where they want to be by sharing a blueprint for challenging the status-quo and shining a light on leading change.
Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Frances Hesselbein
Sally and Marshall's observations are brilliant-informed by both personal experience and deep scholarship. The behaviors they recommend are pragmatic and achievable; it is a book that will enhance women's effectiveness and ultimately their power.
Many of the behaviors most prized in women socially are exactly the same behaviors that hold them back professionally. That paradox provokes huge amounts of conflict, anger, pain and frustration at work. But Sally and Marshall are here to help: identifying how and when to reconcile competing demands and motivators, without losing their identity, professionalism or power.
CEO and author of Willful Blindness Margaret Heffernan
02/20/2023
This perceptive program by leadership coach Helgesen (How Women Rise ) offers guidance on how executives can create a workplace that fosters productive relationships among employees from diverse backgrounds. Companies, she contends, need to help workers collaborate across racial, gender, ethnic, and generational divides by addressing the “eight common triggers that undermine our ability to connect.” These include offensive attempts at humor, as well as issues of visibility (employees might resent colleagues “who are good at getting noticed”), miscommunication (people from different backgrounds bring different assumptions and perspectives), and networking (affiliating only with people like oneself makes one oblivious to the concerns of others). Stories from Helgesen’s clients illustrate the proposed remedies, as when the author tells of an employee passed over for a promotion who had to humble herself, which allowed her to get over her resentment and work with her supervisor to plan her career trajectory at the company. Helgesen demonstrates a keen eye for workplace dynamics, and her concrete suggestions—which include recommendations for business leaders to ensure their employees feel heard by building on what they say and asking them “what skills they don’t get a chance to use”—offer pragmatic means to promote inclusivity. Executives will find this a boon. (Feb.)
"What so often gets left out of the conversation on diversity is the how. By focusing on inclusive behaviors, Sally Helgesen provides it. Rising Together is a much-needed guide to going from awareness to action.”—Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global “Sally Helgesen has been highly influential in my career. When I first started on Wall Street, her books The Female Advantage and The Web of Inclusion were revelatory. How Women Rise and Rising Together are equally so. Elegant, enlightened, powerful and sage.”—Whitney Johnson, Top #10 Management Thinker and WSJ bestselling author of Smart Growth “Sally Helgesen has been the architect of my awakening on the importance of women’s leadership and the pressing need for inclusive leadership. With Rising Together , she shows how it’s done.”—Tom Peters, author of The Excellence Dividend and The Compact Guide to Excellence "Sally Helgesen is a legendary thinker in women's leadership, and a premier advocate for the importance of creating inclusive workplaces. In Rising Together , she offers a blueprint for how we can do so."—Dorie Clark, WSJ bestselling author of The Long Game “Sally Helgesen has been one of my book heroes since I read The Female Advantage back in the ‘90s. In Rising Together , she brilliantly combines compelling stories with practical wisdom to have a major impact. The behavioral tweaks she shares for cultivating the power of we are key to creating more inclusive cultures.”—Stefanie Johnson, bestselling author of Inclusify “Sally Helgesen is betting that the future of inclusive leadership lies in giving one another the benefit of the doubt in order to focus on behaviors that foster solidarity rather than division. In Rising Together, she lays out the how of inclusive practice, tying it to engagement, satisfaction, and performance.”—Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Lunch Alone and Connecting in the New World of Work “I personally used key insights from How Women Rise to help foster diversity when I was CEO of Best Buy. Now Sally has done it again, providing an indispensable guide for changing behaviors in a way that helps everyone rise. A must read for every leader.”—Hubert Joly, former Best Buy CEO, author The Heart of Business, senior lecturer Harvard Business School “Rising Together is the perfect guide to building equitable, safe, and diverse workspaces today. In her signature conversational voice, Sally helps us gain greater awareness of the triggers and the habits that hold us back so we can build relationships that can help us all rise. A must-read for veterans and newcomers in business!"—Sanyin Siang, CEO Coach, Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker, and author of The Launch Book “If you want to be an inclusive leader, Rising Together is your GPS. Sally Helgesen will help you elevate your inclusion game, foster team trust at a faster rate, and build a new generation of leaders.”—Erica Dhawan, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Digital Body Language “Sally Helgesen has spent 35 years working with women around the world to advance their careers. With Rising Together, she draws on this rich experience to show how all of us can most effectively support colleagues across a range of boundaries.”—Minda Harts, author of The Memo and You Are More Than Magic “As women become vitally important throughout the workforce, it’s time to look at the mindset, behaviors, and habits that create inclusivity. Sally’s book, based on her decades of research, helps us pinpoint opportunities for individuals and organizations to truly ‘Rise Together.’"—Josh Bersin, Global HR Industry Analyst "This hands-on manual is for everyone who acknowledges diversity is a reality, not an aspiration and that developing a meaningful range of relationships is essential. .. Helgesen, a leadership coach and author, draws on real scenarios and offers practical examples and exercises to help us build a broad, resilient and diverse web of relationships."—Financial Times “Helgesen has done it again with Rising Together , in which she offers new ways for how companies and employees should approach the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) Gordian knot. By focusing on the how, she provides an extremely insightful and concrete pathway that is more effective than most current DEI approaches.”—Susan Fader , Quirk Magazine " Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Rising Together will be of particular and practical value to readers with an interest in workplace culture."—Midwest Book Review Praise for How Women Rise "A myth-busting "how to" for the next generation of women leaders, and those who want to see them succeed. These ideas will transform our workplaces, our careers, and our lives."—Rita McGrath, professor at Columbia BusinessSchool and a Thinkers50 Top Ten Business Thinker "How Women Rise is a great read for any woman who wants to identify self-defeating behaviors that are holding her back, gain insight into why she engages in those behaviors, and develop skills to confidently achieve her goals."—Lois P. Frankel,Ph.D., author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office and See JaneLead "The most powerful thing you can do for your career is to change what's in your control. Together, Marshall and Sally help women understand what they can change about their own behavior today to make greater contributions tomorrow. How Women Rise is a how-to guide for any woman seeking her next success."—Deanna Mulligan, CEO,Guardian Life "Sally and Marshall give new meaning to the term 'dream team.' Together they have produced a masterpiece, an over-the-moon but magnificently down-to-earth leadership book for the ages."—Tom Peters,bestselling author of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America'sBest-Run Companies "Women suffer from gender bias and when they rise further, also from the general difficulties of leadership. When women approach the top of organizations, they can also bring their own strengths that may unfairly be seen as weaknesses. Sally Helgesen's expertise and Marshall Goldsmith's wisdom bring these insights to light, so that women and men and can do better together at reaching their goals for us all to move forward. This is a powerful and timely book."—Dr. Anthony Marx, President, New York PublicLibrary "Women leaders will be driving forces in twenty-first century organizations. Practically and persuasively, Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith map out how this can and must happen."—Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove, Founders of Thinkers50 "Many of the behaviors most prized in women socially are exactly the same behaviors that hold them back professionally. That paradox provokes huge amounts of conflict, anger, pain and frustration at work. But Sally and Marshall are here to help: identifying how and when to reconcile competing demands and motivators, without losing their identity, professionalism or power."—Margaret Heffernan,CEO and author of Willful Blindness "Pick up this book. Scan the 12 habits. Circle the top three that make you say 'that's me!' Read those chapters, commit to one of the suggestions, and you're on your way. The authors know their material!"—Beverly Kaye, founderof Career Systems International and co-author of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em:Getting Good People to Stay "Women who seek to rise, take note! This is your essential go-to guide. Also highly recommended for men who work with, for, or around women."—Liz Smith, CEO,Bloomin' Brands "This is a must read for women aiming to get to the next level in their careers. It gives insights into challenges and practical tools to address them."—Michelle R.Clayman, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, New Amsterdam Partners andChair, Advisory Council, of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for GenderResearch at Stanford University "Fast forward your career with one powerful book from two of the world's most brilliant coaches! Marshall's famous strategies for behavior change combined with Sally's profound expertise on women will change your life from the first chapter. Start reading this book now!"—Carol Evans, Founderand President Emeritus of Working Mother Media "The habits and beliefs in How Women Rise provide a wonderful and positive opportunity for women to be self-aware. Sally and Marshall show women how to make tangible and crisp changes that will help them be even more successful and fulfilled at work and at home."—Aicha Evans, SeniorVice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation and a Fortunemagazine Top Future Women Leaders in America "A gem and a revelation. If you lead women, work with women, are a woman or know any women, you must read this book. Its sage and sane wisdom points the way to a life of genuine purpose and meaning."—Richard Leider,international bestselling author of The Power of Purpose, RepackingYour Bags, and Life Reimagined