Jennifer Broerman Spencer, Lenovo's Director of Global Diversity and Inclusion, shares the journey and strategies behind promoting more women into leadership roles at Lenovo. She highlights the critical role of confidence and inclusion in leadership and outlines two core strategies: supporting women's unique challenges in career advancement and setting clear goals for female representation at the executive level.
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Dr. Nicole Whitehead
Dr. Whitehead, a certified SHRM and diversity practitioner is a versatile and award-winning senior leader, speaker, strategist, mediator, mentor and coach with over 25 years’ experience in building high performing, inclusive teams. Dr. Whitehead has excelled at "people" work across industries, leading strategic organizational change as well as providing consulting expertise to corporate, non-profit and higher education sectors. Dr. Whitehead has been called a “inclusionist” due to her unique approach to systemic humanity throughout the employee life cycle. Honing her lens of systemic humanity as the “willful interrogation of every element of our “system” of being, acting, communicating and providing access to resources that reflect the foundational belief that all people hold value that is solely connected to their humanity” has helped her “meet employees at all levels, where they are”. A John Maxwell certified coach and leader; Nicole holds several degrees and certifications, however her passion for utilizing her experiences to evolve culture and climate through transformative leadership.
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