Think Leadership. Think Female.
Tammy Heermann is an award-winning leadership expert sought out by some of the world’s top companies for her programs that accelerate women’s advancement. In 2021, she published 'Reframe Your Story: Real Talk for Women Who Want to Let Go, Do Less and Be More-Together', urging women to challenge the current narratives reinforced by society, systems, and those of their own making. For over twenty years, she has helped change thousands of mindsets around what it takes to lead, both self and others. While having an impact in the C-suite, nothing makes her happier than pushing up-and-coming leaders to break through organizational and self-imposed barriers to reach their potential. Tammy transforms her audiences with alternating moments of humor and heartache as she shares stories of her own journey from senior consultant to senior vice president. She is a perennial mentor with Women in Communications and Technology and is also addicted to Peloton, Pilates, and perogies. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Tammy Heermann’s leadership development career history
How Tammy became inspired to promote the advancement of women
Her moment of revelation about wanting to become an entrepreneur
Where Canada falls on the gender pay gap scale
Why the “think manager, think male” mindset needs to change
How the skill of empathy in women is often misinterpreted
What the chapter in Tammy’s book about “rule that meeting” is about
How changing mindsets can lead to success and advancement
Tammy’s number-one go-to reference book
In this episode…
Tammy Heermann has spent twenty-five years in leadership development, from her start as a software trainer to working with a global consulting firm, before she became a leadership entrepreneur. Tammy’s passion and focus is on empowering women within organizations. She wants women to reframe their power and accelerate their development.
Tammy explains how 1970s research spurred the stereotype “think manager, think male” which tended to match leadership characteristics with masculine traits. She is on a mission to remove that stereotype and change thinking to “think leadership, think female”. She details how perceptions about women’s traits lead them to tend to be penalized. Such as for their empathy, as an example, but that empathy skill is actually a key strategic crisis management skill.
In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and Tammy Heermann discuss all the ways in which women’s behavior is seen to undermine their strength, male assertiveness drowns out women’s voices, and how mastering mindset is key to reframing the power imbalance. Tammy shares advice from her book and her research on how women can unlock their potential in this vital episode.
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