Women Leaders on the Move - by HerCsuite® Radio

Mentorship is one of the most important ways to accelerate your career.  Take a listen to this conversation with Alan Berkson and host Natalie Benamou, as they discuss How to Get The Most out of Mentoring.

Alan Berkson is a member and Ally of HerCsuite™ and the Coupa Empower Cross-Organization mentorship program. Alan is the asker of questions and host of the podcast, Cosmic Street Corner. He is also the Director of Thought Leadership at FreshWorks where he sets the strategy and creates an industry leading through leadership platform that will elevate the perceptions of FreshWorks as a trusted partner.

Wherever you are in your career, having more than one mentor over the arc of your professional life will add to your ability to find career fulfillment.

How to Work with a Mentor:

• Share what you need and where the mentor can be most helpful for you.
• Mentors are looking for the mentee to follow through and take action.
• As a mentee, you will gain the most success by sharing what worked and where you got stuck.

Three Ways Mentors Help Mentees:

1. Find out who you are and your purpose.
2. Discover what is going to be a meaningful next step in their career.
3. Build trust with clear expectations.

How to Get the Most out of Mentoring:

• Do the work your mentor asks of you.
• Take your mentor's advice.
• Follow through, be prepared and share what has changed since your last conversation.

"Nobody is successful in life without mentors." - Alan Berkson

Alan Berkson | LinkedIn | Twitter

HerCsuite™ offers customized mentorship programs including the Coupa Empower's Cross Corporate Mentorship Program where mentors and mentees were matched 1:1 across four organizations, Coupa, Commvault, Freshworks and Greif.  Organizations like Terumo BCT are using HerCsuite™ platform as a mentorship circle hub and mentors were matched to groups of mentees for their women's ERG.  Find out more about how your organization can develop and keep more female talent with mentoring at HerCsuite™ Solutions and Schedule a Demo

Natalie Benamou is the Founder of HerCsuite™ providing organizations a framework to keep and develop more female talent at every career phase with mentorship programs, turnkey speaker programs and masterminds for women leaders. Our DEI Council is a cross organization peer-to-peer learning circle providing strategic insights to link initiatives to the business goals. Check out the Newest Leadership Circle HerCsuite™ NEXT for Women over 50. 

At HerCsuite™ we believe You Belong Here.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou | HerPower2 Lead | HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by HerCsuite™ Events.  Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!

In today's episode, special guest Christine Rose and host Natalie Benamou discuss how you can transform a new rule set for change. Learn how you as a leader can have the right conversations with your team to create better, safer workplaces.

About Our Guest:

Christine Rose is a world changer, internationally best-selling author, speaker, and coach a Forbes coach council member certified value builder advisor certified core values, coach and certified psychological safety coach featured on Forbes, public interest, radio, and national business radio. She coaches CEOs to grow leadership, effective teams and high value companies.

Connect with Christine Rose:

• Website
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Instagram

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

Take a listen to this conversation today Christine Rose and host Natalie Benamou, Founder of HerCsuite™ and  as they discuss how you can transform a new rule set for change.

Christine Rose is a world changer, internationally best-selling author, speaker, and coach a Forbes coach council member certified value builder advisor certified core values, coach and certified psychological safety coach featured on Forbes, public interest, radio, and national business radio. She coaches CEOs to grow leadership, effective teams and high value companies.

When your culture is struggling, if you have failures and breakdowns, if your execution is less than up to par, sometimes teams may perceive an executive unfavorably. The leader may not now why, because they're not having the right conversations.

Coaching Benefits

· It's a proven tool.

· It effectively helps you to develop as a leader.

· Accelerate results when working with a coach

Empowering Questions to Ask Yourself in Challenging Situations

1. What is it that determines whether you have a voice?
2. What would feeling like you have a voice look like?
3. In the situation that you're in, what's the outcome that you would like to see?
4. What would line up with what you care about and with what the organization cares about?

Inspiration for 'Life Beyond #MeToo: Creating a Safer World for Our Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Friends'

"We've created this moment in the culture where radical transformation is now possible because of a whole new level of awareness that a lot of people were not able to see before. There's a new way of looking at things. And in that moment, it created an opportunity to craft a new rule set for how we live and how we get along as people in the world." - Christine Rose

Find Christine Rose Here: Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Instagram

About HerCsuite™  We help organizations keep and develop more female talent at every career phase.  Our new DEI Council provides strategic insights to link initiatives to the business.  HerCsuite™ provides mentoring, turnkey events and masterminds all designed to help members feel valued inside our supportive and inclusive network community.

Natalie Benamou is the Founder of HerCsuite™ ready-made customizable solutions for Employee Resource Groups, Membership Organizations, and Individual Women Leaders.  Check out our Newest Mastermind HerCsuite™ NEXT for Women over 50.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou | HerPower2 Lead | HerCsuite™ 

This podcast is sponsored by HerCsuite™ Events.  Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!

In today's episode, host Natalie Benamou shares relatable stories about being on the "super highway to success" only to realize the fast lane isn't all it was cut out to be. She offers advice on tackling burnout and feeling overwhelmed.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Karen Brown, CEO and Founder of Bridge Arrow, sits down with host Natalie Benamou discuss how to transform employee resource groups into business resource groups. Learn what business resource groups can do for you.

About Our Guest:

Karen is the author of the Harvard Business Review article, “To Retain Employees, Focus on Inclusion, not Just Diversity”. She founded Bridge Arrow to ensure businesses are more profitable by focusing on return on equity for investors, shareholders, and employees, with an understanding born of over 25 years in the corporate world. Karen advises global companies about how to drive growth and profitability by promoting diversity and inclusion in their organizations. She has served as a global keynote speaker and panel moderator at conferences hosted by the US military academy and the Chicago council on Global Affairs among others. Karen is a compelling storyteller whose presentations spark conversation and spur action.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

How can you transform your employee resource group into a business resource group? Take a listen to this interview with Karen Brown, CEO and Founder of Bridge Arrow.  Karen is the author of the Harvard Business Review article, “To Retain Employees, Focus on Inclusion, not Just Diversity”. She founded Bridge Arrow to ensure businesses are more profitable by focusing on return on equity for investors, shareholders, and employees, with an understanding born of over 25 years in the corporate world. Karen advises global companies about how to drive growth and profitability by promoting diversity and inclusion in their organizations. She has served as a global keynote speaker and panel moderator at conferences hosted by the US military academy and the Chicago council on Global Affairs among others. Karen is a compelling storyteller whose presentations spark conversation and spur action.

Transform Employee Resource Groups Into Business Resource Groups:
>> Create business resource groups to meet the needs of your members.
>> Recognize members both formally and informally.
>> Survey members and listen and share insights.

Karen shares how she empowers DEI leaders to win stake holder buy-in.
Example from her time at Monsanto and leading DEI.
>> Prepare them on how and when to engage with stakeholders.

Five Strategies for Business Resource Groups:

1. Ask for input when designing the strategy to report progress on a regular basis throughout the year.
2. Support and host regular quarterly meetings with key stakeholder groups.
3. Share a progress report to the executive sponsors, managers of the employee group leaders and HR leaders who were assigned to these employee groups.
4. Create an executive DEI council and share out results.
5. Host an employee resource group conference that brings together the entire executive team, DEI council, managers of the employee leaders, HR sponsors, and the heads of the employee groups.

"It is a huge missed opportunity for a business and C-suite executives to not recognize the qualities in the leaders of employee groups, to tap into them and to position them as incubators of talent for the leadership of the organization overall."- Karen Brown

Find Karen Brown on LinkedIn | Bridge Arrow | email: [email protected]

Natalie Benamou is the Founder of HerCsuite™, HerCsuite™ all-in-one platform is a SaaS private network hub is designed for organizations to retain and engage female talent. Our simplified user interface makes it easy for women to achieve success in every level of their careers. It is a ready-made customizable solution for Employee Resource Groups, Membership Organizations, and Individual Women Leaders.  Check out our Newest Mastermind HerCsuite™ NEXT for Women over 50.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou | HerPower2 Lead | HerCsuite™

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Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!

In today's episode, special guest Deepa Purushothaman and host Natalie Benamou sit down to discuss her new book, The First, The Few, The Only. Deepa shares how she interviewed over 500 women of color for this book. She highlights both individual stories as well as the numerous commonalities she has observed from having these discussions.

About Our Guest:

Deepa Purushothaman is a co-founder of nFormation, which provides a brave, safe, and new space for professional women of color. She is a Women and Public Policy Program Leader in Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to this, Deepa spent more than twenty years at Deloitte and was the first Indian American woman to make partner in the company’s history. Deepa was also Deloitte’s national WIN (Women’s Initiative) leader, the firm’s renowned program to recruit, retain, and advance women.

Connect with Deepa Purushothaman:

• THE FIRST, THE FEW, THE ONLY: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America
• LinkedIn
• DeepaPuru.com
• TEDx Talk
• HBR Article: Leaders, Stop Rewarding Toxic Rockstars

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

What does it feel like to be the First, the Few and the Only? Today's guest is Deepa Purushothaman, co-founder of nFormation which provides brave, safe, new space for professional women of color and a Women and Public Policy Program Leader in Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to this, Deepa spent more than twenty years at Deloitte and was the first Indian American woman to make partner in the company’s history. Deepa was also Deloitte’s national WIN (Women’s Initiative) leader, the firm’s renowned program to recruit, retain, and advance women.  Join host Natalie Benamou and Deepa Purushothaman for this special conversation about her new book: THE FIRST, THE FEW, THE ONLY: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America.

Deepa shares how she interviewed over 500 women of color for this book. She highlights both individual stories as well as the numerous commonalities she has observed from having these discussions. Her personal stories and actionable takeaways in the book will resonate with a wide range of readers, from CEOs and HR teams to managers and employees.

"There are these amazing women who have been first, but we don't spend enough time talking about the barriers that they overcome and how much extra work there is and how difficult it is." - Deepa Purushothaman

In this special discussion, Deepa describes:

• The extra burdens and excess work WOC take on for companies in the name of culture building.
•  Pushing back against toxic messaging—including the things we tell ourselves.
• Embracing the valuable cultural viewpoints and experiences that give us unique perspectives at work.

Two Surprising Discoveries From The Book:

1. "Many of the women of color I interviewed were actually sick with mysterious illnesses."

2. "Women shared with me that they felt other women didn't support them in the workplace." 

"I want women and women of color to be in full voice when they get to the seat at the table. So they can actually show up, with all their super powers, and all the things that they bring to the table."- Deepa Purushothaman

Find Deepa Purushothaman on LinkedIn | DeepaPuru.com TEDx Talk HBR Article: Leaders, Stop Rewarding Toxic Rockstars

Natalie Benamou is the Founder of HerCsuite™, HerCsuite™ all-in-one platform is a SaaS private network hub is designed for organizations to retain and engage female talent. Our simplified user interface makes it easy for women to achieve success in every level of their careers. It is a ready-made customizable solution for Employee Resource Groups, Membership Organizations, and Individual Women Leaders.  Check out our Newest Mastermind HerCsuite™ NEXT for Women over 50.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou | HerPower2 Lead | HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos. Listeners can get your free 30-day trial here.

Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!

In today's episode, host Natalie Benamou discusses how many women are feeling overwhelmed and leaving the workforce. She shares the secret to retaining and engaging female talent.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

If I was to ask you: " How many of you feel overwhelmed?" The answer according to a Deloitte Study, is 77%.

During the pandemic, a record 5.4 million women left the workforce. There are a lot of articles that talk about the great resignation, the great retirement, the great hiring--but few focus on the cause, the overwhelm.  If we apply the 77% statistic to the total number of women who left their jobs,  4,158,000 felt overwhelmed.

Take a break today and listen to host and Founder of HerCsuite™ Natalie Benamou, as she shares the secret to retaining and engaging female talent.

4 Ways To Increase Retention and Engagement:

1. Provide a mentoring program.  Focus on meeting the needs of women in your organization. Offer a service like Made For You Mentoring by HerCsuite™ and include an easy mentor to mentee match system and hosting kickoff events.

2. Remove overwhelm by offering curated events. Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are made up of volunteers.  Offer the leaders in your ERG support to execute an event, so they can focus on leadership development instead of logistics.

3. Invite leaders to participate.  When women see a leader engaged in a mentoring program, they feel valued and appreciated.  

4. Keep it simple.  The best way to encourage participation is by making access to events, meetings and communication easy for all participants.

Two Mentoring Made For You Programs:

1. Cross Organization Mentorship Programs like Coupa Empower's program.  Check out the Press Release on how four organizations were matched across their employee resource groups 1:1 and have a private Mentoring Hub inside HerCsuite™.

2. Internal Mentoring Programs: Mentors are matched to a group of mentees like Terumo BCT's program. “HerCsuite™ platform is so much easier to use and
create connections. Now more than ever, people are so busy, ease of use is really important.” - Melanie Neal, Vice President, Terumo BCT 

We are focused on the 77% of you who feel overwhelmed and offer women and organizations a framework to reduce stress and achieve success at every career level.

Are you planning for retirement?  HerCsuite™ NEXT is a new mastermind program designed to support women 50 and over who are looking to retire.  Join HerCsuite™ Mastermind Circle program and save on annual subscriptions.

Natalie Benamou is the Founder of HerCsuite™, transforming the way organizations retain and engage female talent. Visit HerCsuite™ and schedule a demo to learn more about our mentoring made easy, curated events and SaaS platform.  Reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™ or send a text to 224-209-6424.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou | HerCsuite™  This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv. Listeners can get your free 30-day trial here. Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!