The Next Smart Step

How to Overcome Gender Stereotypes and Build a Stronger Organization

By: Kelly Watson, Jodi Detjen

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Empowering women empowers everyone. Women with confidence, equal pay, and leadership opportunity enrich workplace culture and help the whole organization. The first step is understanding that gender balance is not a zero-sum game. The Next Smart Step is a clear, assured guide to understanding the challenge of gender imbalance, implementing solutions, and equipping listeners with the tools we all need to ensure change that is positive and enduring. It is about all of us becoming leaders.

The Next Smart Step builds on a positive reality, helping listeners recognize and manage unconscious biases, see diversity as a 21st century skill, and work towards equal partnerships in the workplace. It outlines strategies for flexibility, communication, openness, and mutual respect. Gender equity is not only the right thing to do - it makes life better, workplace culture more diverse, opportunity more widely available, and organizations more successful. The Next Smart Step will help everyone from new hires to corporate executives learn the personal leadership this important issue demands.

©2021 Kelly Watson and Jodi Ecker Detjen (P)2021 Ascent Audio