The IAM Leadership Alliance Council is building out the leadership webinar series to start back up after the busy summer peak season. The council is dedicated to identifying topics to help your business navigate a continually changing environment in which shifting demographics and other societal trends are requiring organizations to adapt to remain relevant.

Pre-pandemic, companies were making progress in gender balance and in recruiting more diverse groups of people into key roles. While many organizations have been forced to work from home, it’s critical for leaders to continue to mentor and sponsor even though they are not seeing their staff members all the time. Leaders need to be deliberate in their check-in approach, both to maintain the interpersonal balance for their employees, but also to keep including those employees in key meetings to foster professional development and networking opportunities. When you have worked so hard to recruit talented staff, you do not want to lose them.

The organizations that will successfully emerge post-COVID will be the ones who were nimble in the face of a generational pandemic, inspired by leaders who took care of their customers because they took care of their staff. They listened, they communicated, and they showed empathy, modifying their approach to meet their employees’ varying needs. These leaders are creating the blueprint for future leadership excellence.

We’re pleased to feature shining examples of this leadership in the next webinar in our leadership series, which will be held on August 25. Based on the book, Good Guys, How Men Can Be Better Allies For Women in the Workplace, workplace experts David G. Smith, PhD, and W. Brad Johnson, PhD, show why and how men have a crucial role to play in promoting gender equality at work. A sociologist and a clinical psychologist, they are professors and former naval officers with a mission to help men become more effective allies, accomplices, mentors, and collaborators with women to create a more inclusive workplace.

According to Dr. Smith and Dr. Johnson, “research shows that when men are deliberately engaged in gender-inclusion programs, 96 percent of women in those organizations perceive real progress in gender equality, compared with only 30 percent of women in organizations without strong male engagement.”

The co-authors will be joined by Hall of Honor inductee Georgia Angell, Principal of Trellis Vine Consulting, LLC and Tim Helenthal, Chairman and CEO of National Van Lines Inc. for the first of two sessions on this topic. The second session will be held during the annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, on October 14, and will be open to in-person and virtual attendees. For the second session, the authors will take a deeper dive into the actual tactics described in the first session.

Register today through IAM Learning. To stay connected with the IAM Leadership Alliance Council, join our LinkedIn page.

Many thanks to our generous sponsors for making this session possible: Daycos, Dewitt Move Worldwide, Enterprise Database Corporation (EDC), Interstate International, Inc., National Van Lines, The Pasha Group, Total Military Management, and Yembo.