Topic: Women in Leadership: How is that glass ceiling coming?
Summary: In 1987, Ann Morrison and Randy White published Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach The Top Of America’s Largest Corporations? More than 25 years later, the question is still relevant. In recent years, the percentage of women holding senior and C-Suite roles in organizations has increased. However, breaking through the glass ceiling remains a very real challenge for most women—and organizations that want to retain and leverage their talent—to overcome. This is evidenced by the drop in the percentage of women from 28 percent at the mid-level leader range to just 17 percent at the senior executive level.
Korn Ferry recently studied women leaders’ competencies, experiences, drivers, and traits to understand the underlying dynamics, yielding insights that individuals, their managers, organizational leaders, and HR teams can act on.
In this session, you will learn:
- Differences between men and women in drivers, experiences, and competencies identified in our recent research.
- Actionable insights that women can apply to facilitate their professional development and advancement, and that managers and mentors can use to better support the success of women professionals
- Strategies that leaders and human resources departments can leverage to drive widespread change for women in leadership throughout the organization
Joy Hazucha, Ph.D.
Global Vice President, Korn Ferry Institute
Joy Hazucha is Global Vice President, for the Korn Ferry Institute, based in the Firm’s Minneapolis office. The Korn Ferry Institute helps realize the goal of cultivating greatness in our clients by providing innovative IP for all parts of the enterprise, including Futurestep, Leadership and Talent Consulting, and the Global Products Group.
Ms. Hazucha has more than thirty years of experience in talent management, with extensive experience in executive roles in business development, international leadership and growth, acquisition integration, C-suite assessment, cross-cultural leadership, and leadership development research. She regularly presents at professional conferences and has published articles and a chapter in the Handbook of Industrial Organizational Psychology and two chapters in Advances in Global Leadership.
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Hazucha was a Senior Vice President, Leadership Research and Analytics for PDI Ninth House, now a Korn Ferry company. Having joined PDI Ninth House in 1983, she held various roles at the Managing Director, Director, and Vice President levels that supported the Firm’s strategic growth, including launching the organization’s European business in 1993, building the French market for PDI Ninth House, and leading expansion and growth into nine European countries from 1997 to 2000.
Ms. Hazucha earned her doctoral degree in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in psychology and Biblical studies from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. She is fluent in English and French.