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INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative partners with Sodexo and Centre for Work-Life Policy to Host a Panel discussion on Leadership

Video interview of Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Herminia Ibarra

INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative organises, in partnership with Sodexo and the Centre for Work-Life Policy, on 8 January 2010 in Paris a breakfast discussion on how to engage organisations’ leadership during difficult economic times. Panellists will identify how organisations can better support and motivate top talent to survive the current downturn and emerge stronger during the recovery.

The panel will feature Herminia Ibarra, the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning and Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD; Michel Landel, CEO of Sodexo; and Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding President of The Centre of Work-Life Policy and author of the recently published book ‘Top Talent: How to Keep Performance Up When Business is Down.’

With organisations’ morale at all time lows, and loyalty and trust fleeting qualities among employees, the panellists will discuss strategies on how to:

• Think locally and focus on team leaders;
• Give employees meaningful non-monetary rewards;
• Develop a fair restructuring process;
• Retain female leaders;
• Show that top leadership cares and;
• Recreate pride, purpose and direction in organisations