Sally Helgesen

Sally Helgesen is an author, speaker, and leadership consultant. Her most recent book, The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, explores how women’s strategic insights can strengthen their careers and benefit their organizations. Her best-selling The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, hailed as “the classic work” on women's leadership styles, has been continuously in print for 25 years and translated into 12 languages. The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time. Sally develops and delivers leadership programs for corporations, partnership firms, universities, and associations around the world, has consulted with the United Nations Development Programme on building more inclusive country offices in Africa and Asia, and led seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College. She is a contributing editor to Strategy+Business magazine and lives in Chatham, N.Y.