To support #PressForProgress here today, I was excited to catch up with Stacey Engle, Executive Vice President of Fierce Conversations. As an organization that is women-owned with strong women leadership, Fierce provides the tools for having effective conversations in the workplace that are needed to support women, and all employees, to live up to their full potential. She has over ten years’ experience helping build businesses through go-to market and innovative people strategies, and is driven by the impact that Fierce Conversations has on building relationships, and ultimately improving success for their clients. Here’s what Stacey shares about women, growth and the fierce conversations needed to accelerate that growth:Kathy Caprino: Stacey, from your perspective at Fierce, what holds so many organizations back from recognizing and encouraging powerful women to take the lead? While it can be tempting to point fingers, authoritative leadership conversations explore issues “with” people, not “at” them.

Source: Forbes March 08, 2018 16:41 UTC