Rebecca Shambaugh - Make Room for Her: Why Companies Need an Integrated Leadership Model to Achieve Extraordinary Results

Praise for Make Room for Her

Make Room for Her expertly guides the reader through a changing business environment and effectively builds out an exciting new leadership model that should be adopted by organizations seeking to reassess their commitment to the advancement of women in leadership and effectively move the needle to garner stronger results.

Paul LaPiana, Senior Vice President, MetLife

Make Room for Her in its title and in every paragraph delivers the essential message of Integrated Leadership to leaders at every level of every organization in all three sectors. This new and indispensable handbook delivers a new model for the organization of the future.

Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO, The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute

Rebecca Shambaughs extremely informative, entertaining, and insightful new book, Make Room for Her, is aimed at both a male and female audience. It succinctly describes business leadership models that drive top performance in organizations, as well as proactive steps female executives can take to assume responsibility for their careers and become a significant part of the leadership equation.

Karen Bechtel, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Diversity is about more than values and cultureits also about taking action. Shambaugh provides a road map to cultural change with practical stops along the way for employees of both genders.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Economist and CEO, Center for Talent Innovation

Make room to read Rebecca Shambaughs new book on Integrated Leadership. It will cause you to rethink the leadership model your organization follows and provide you with clear strategies for integrating the best of both men and women leaders to drive performance.

Dottie Brienza, Chief Diversity Officer and Executive Talent Leader, Merck

In todays dynamic marketplace, every business needs a diversity of ideas and new perspectives to help them solve problems and seize opportunities. Actively sponsoring women for leadership opportunities is more than just the right thing to doits an essential part of winning the best talent and building a competitive edge. Rebecca Shambaughs years of strategic leadership development, her extensive study of current business trends, and her real-world interactions with industry leaders have given her extraordinary insight into the importance of increasing womens senior leadership roles.

John B. Veihmeyer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, KPMG LLP

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HAVING SERVED as an executive for three Fortune 500 companies and running my own leadership development company for the past 20 years, I feel qualified to say that the one constant in business is change! But even though constant change has become the norm, I am amazed at the tremendous impact it still has on all of us. Never before have I seen so many business leaders, across all business sectors and industries, work so hard to juggle so many challenges and opportunities. Shifting market conditions, higher customer expectations, ever-evolving workforce demographics, new business processes, constant advances in technology, and rapid social changes are causing many business leaders to rethink the kind of leadership that is needed to be successful now and in the future.

Furthermore, many futurists have said that our world is in a time of dramatic change and that we will continue to experience unresolved complexities that will call for all of us to adapt to a new way of thinking and leadingone that does not fight the new realities but adapts and flows with the new external forces that are impacting us today.

All this evidence indicates that we are on the brink of a significant change in how we lead our organizations. What we need is a sustainable approach for developing the best leadership for success in todays economy. Integrated Leadership harnesses the collective human intelligence available to us on gender-balanced teams. Theres strength in each gender, just as theres strength in a diversity of life experiences, age experiences, racial experiences, ethnicity, culture, and so many other aspects of life that make us who we are.

If the issue of leadership is important to youas an executive trying to develop the next generation of leaders, a leader wanting to improve your teams effectiveness, or someone looking to join the ranks of leadership in your organizationthis book is for you. While it addresses the lack of women in senior leadership, let me be clear that it is not a book about the need for diversity or the need to do a better job of promoting women. Nor is it another self-help book for women in business. In fact, many of these types of books are based on the premise that the reason women are not advancing is that the system is stacked against them or there is something wrong with the system. I disagree.