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Betsy Myers
Betsy Myers is a leadership expert, author and advocate with extensive experience across business, politics and higher education.
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3 experiences you get with Betsy Myers
- Extensive leadership experience: Betsy Myers brings perspectives from entrepreneurship, higher education, presidential campaigns and the White House.
- A strong focus on women and leadership: She explores how organizations can develop talent and create opportunities for women to lead and succeed.
- Insight backed by experience: Betsy combines research and leadership insights with lessons gained from working hands-on across business and politics.
Non-binding request for Betsy Myers
Leadership expert and advocate for women in business with experience from the White House, higher education and entrepreneurship
Betsy Myers brings together extensive experience from the corporate, political and higher education arenas to explore leadership, talent and the role of women in business. An author, entrepreneur and advocate for women in leadership, she has served as a senior adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and held leadership positions in both presidential politics and the White House. Betsy has also worked at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and founded the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University. Through keynotes and workshops, she shares insights into the changing nature of leadership and how individuals and organizations can bring out the best in themselves and the people around them.
Leadership shaped across different worlds
Speaker Betsy Myers has built a career spanning business, politics and higher education, giving her a distinctive perspective on what leadership looks like in very different environments. Her work focuses particularly on leadership, talent and the advancement of women in business, including women entrepreneurs and women-led organizations.
Before entering government, Betsy spent six years building Myers Insurance and Financial Services in Los Angeles. Her company specialized in serving small businesses and the women's market, giving her first-hand experience with entrepreneurship and the opportunities and challenges faced by business owners.
That practical business background became one part of a career that would eventually take Betsy into the White House, presidential campaigning and some of the United States' prominent academic institutions. Today, she draws on those experiences when speaking and leading workshops around the world.
From the White House to presidential campaigns
Betsy Myers has worked closely with two U.S. presidents. During the Clinton Administration, she launched and became the first director of the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach. She also served as director of the Office of Women's Business Ownership at the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Her work placed women, entrepreneurship and leadership at the center of her professional life and gave her experience with how institutions can engage, develop and support women in business.
Betsy later became a senior adviser during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, serving as Chief Operating Officer and Chair of Women for Obama. Her responsibilities gave her experience at the heart of a national presidential campaign and added another dimension to her understanding of leadership, organizational culture and talent.
For audiences, these experiences provide concrete perspectives from environments where communication, relationships, organizational effectiveness and leadership matter every day.
Women in business and leadership
A central theme throughout Betsy Myers' career has been the advancement of women. She is an advocate for women in leadership, women entrepreneurs and women-led businesses, and her expertise explores how the nature of leadership and talent continues to evolve.
Betsy was the founding director of the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University in Boston. The center reflects a focus that has followed her throughout her career: understanding how women can thrive professionally and how organizations can create environments where talent has the opportunity to develop.
Her keynotes combine her hands-on experience with research and insights into leadership. Rather than approaching leadership purely as a title or position, Betsy explores the personal dimensions that influence how people lead, motivate others and contribute to an organization.
Audiences can expect perspectives on areas including:
- Women in leadership, entrepreneurship and business
- The changing nature of leadership and talent
- Developing and bringing out the best in people
- Personal leadership and professional development
- Organizational environments in which women can succeed
Leadership and the fully integrated person
Betsy Myers' work in higher education has further shaped her approach. As executive director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, she focused the center's teaching and research around personal leadership and the concept of the fully integrated person.
This emphasis connects leadership with the individual behind the role. Betsy's work examines how people can understand themselves, motivate others and create the conditions that allow individuals and teams to perform at their best.
She has continued to explore these ideas through consulting, speaking engagements and workshops around the world. Her particular expertise in women and leadership allows her to address questions that are increasingly relevant to organizations looking to understand talent, leadership development and women's role in business.
Betsy is also the author of Take the Lead – Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You. In its release year, the book was named the Washington Post's Best Leadership Book of the year. Its themes reflect Betsy's broader work: leadership starts with understanding people and creating the conditions that enable them to contribute at their best.
Book Betsy Myers for your event
Booking Betsy Myers for your event brings an experienced leadership voice to conversations about women in business, entrepreneurship, talent and organizational leadership. Her background is unusually varied: she has built her own company, worked in a presidential administration, held senior positions in a national presidential campaign and led initiatives at respected higher education institutions.
That breadth allows Betsy to connect ideas about leadership with situations she has encountered personally. She understands entrepreneurship from building Myers Insurance and Financial Services, public leadership from her roles during the Clinton Administration, campaign leadership from her work with Barack Obama, and leadership education from her time at Harvard and Bentley University.
Betsy fully immerses herself in the subjects she addresses and brings a strong passion for business, women's empowerment and leadership. Her combination of practical experience, research and long-standing advocacy makes her keynotes relevant for organizations and audiences interested in how leadership is changing, how talent can be developed and how women can continue to strengthen their place in the business world.
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Betsy Myers:
The Leader in You -- How to Be Your Authentic Self While Also Being Strategic to Get Results
So many people have a difficult time accepting the realities of their workplace today. The driving theme of this speech is that it’s irrelevant whether you like a boss, colleague, constituent or donor.
What is relevant, however, is navigating every situation to achieve the best possible outcome while preserving your integrity. This is the only way to prosper in your company. It all starts with you.
When true leadership is when you step into who you really are, when you discover, understand and embrace your own personal story.
When being your true self, successful leadership is also learning about the people around you and what they need.
Combination effect enables leaders to create an environment and culture in which people offer their best selves to a team, partnership or relationship in order to achieve desired results.
This speech will share strategies, examples and best practices that will help you become an authentic leader who establishes meaningful relationships in order to drive your career forward.
What is relevant, however, is navigating every situation to achieve the best possible outcome while preserving your integrity. This is the only way to prosper in your company. It all starts with you.
When true leadership is when you step into who you really are, when you discover, understand and embrace your own personal story.
When being your true self, successful leadership is also learning about the people around you and what they need.
Combination effect enables leaders to create an environment and culture in which people offer their best selves to a team, partnership or relationship in order to achieve desired results.
This speech will share strategies, examples and best practices that will help you become an authentic leader who establishes meaningful relationships in order to drive your career forward.
Keynote by speaker Betsy Myers:
Disruptive World
Each C-Level executive is tested at one point in his or her career by a failure, disappointment, loss, setback or betrayal. The difference between good and great organizational leaders is how resilient they are, how they deal with, and even embrace, these unexpected changes.
Indeed, our failures are the road map to our true selves; life and leadership is never a straight line but, instead, a curvy road with obstacles that challenge and stretch us. We cannot control change but we can manage how we react to it through our personal leadership.
Offer a host of critical strategies that will help leaders navigate and stay steady under disruption
How to think about change differently, how failure builds our resiliency muscle
How to deal with crisis in the middle of the storm
How resilience is our path for discovering and aligning with our life’s purpose and passion; and how, in the face of unwanted change, we discover our true character.
Emerging stronger, wiser and more self- confident even after the most challenging situations.
Indeed, our failures are the road map to our true selves; life and leadership is never a straight line but, instead, a curvy road with obstacles that challenge and stretch us. We cannot control change but we can manage how we react to it through our personal leadership.
Offer a host of critical strategies that will help leaders navigate and stay steady under disruption
How to think about change differently, how failure builds our resiliency muscle
How to deal with crisis in the middle of the storm
How resilience is our path for discovering and aligning with our life’s purpose and passion; and how, in the face of unwanted change, we discover our true character.
Emerging stronger, wiser and more self- confident even after the most challenging situations.
Keynote by speaker Betsy Myers:
Leadership Creates a Feeling -- How to Create a Modern Workforce for the 21st Century
Every company today is grappling with a staggering statistic -- 50-70% of American workers are disengaged in the workplace. Clearly, the old model of command-and-control leadership is no longer effective in this new environment.
A new leadership model is necessary to recruit and retain engaged talent at all levels of the organization.
How leaders must be conscious about their behavior and its impact on others.
Why they must be self-reflective and try to understand their strengths and weaknesses.
Why leaders must ask questions, not just provide answers, in order to build relationships and facilitate teamwork and collaboration.
How leaders must bring out the productive feelings in the people around them.
Examples of when people feel valued, supported, appreciated and understood, they do their best work.
Based on Betsy Myers’ book, “Take the Lead: Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You,” this speech will explain what leaders must do if they want a workforce that is both happy and profit-driven.
A new leadership model is necessary to recruit and retain engaged talent at all levels of the organization.
How leaders must be conscious about their behavior and its impact on others.
Why they must be self-reflective and try to understand their strengths and weaknesses.
Why leaders must ask questions, not just provide answers, in order to build relationships and facilitate teamwork and collaboration.
How leaders must bring out the productive feelings in the people around them.
Examples of when people feel valued, supported, appreciated and understood, they do their best work.
Based on Betsy Myers’ book, “Take the Lead: Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You,” this speech will explain what leaders must do if they want a workforce that is both happy and profit-driven.
Keynote by speaker Betsy Myers:
Engaging Men-- The Way Forward for Women in Business
Most companies aren’t making real progress when it comes to gender equity today. Indeed, women’s issues often appear to be pushed to the side. Unfortunately, though, the old strategies and continuing lack of focus aren’t helping organizations recruit, retain and advance talented women.
Women currently hold just 10%-15% of the senior leadership (C-Suite) positions in corporate America, even though they hold 50% of the middle-management positions.
This speech offers a sweeping new approach for boosting gender equity in US companies -- engaging men on behalf of women.
In addition to offering strategies that will help men effectively mentor women, the speech will also show how to establish trust-based professional relationships between men and women that will lead us to a gender progress that has been elusive for so many years.
Women currently hold just 10%-15% of the senior leadership (C-Suite) positions in corporate America, even though they hold 50% of the middle-management positions.
This speech offers a sweeping new approach for boosting gender equity in US companies -- engaging men on behalf of women.
In addition to offering strategies that will help men effectively mentor women, the speech will also show how to establish trust-based professional relationships between men and women that will lead us to a gender progress that has been elusive for so many years.
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