Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016, rose from humble beginnings to become the first Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. In this interview with HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius, she talks candidly about the frequent challenges and occasional advantages of being "the only" and explains why organizations needs to do a better job of promoting bo ... Show More
Yesterday
Purpose-Driven Leadership in an Era of Polarization
Even in difficult times, leadership must be about empathy, authenticity, fairness and service. That's according to Darren Walker, the outgoing CEO of the Ford Foundation, a nonprofit with an endowment of billions of dollars and a charge to reduce poverty and injustice. Drawing on ... Show More
31m 15s
Nov 2022
S1 E3: Ursula Burns: The powerhouse CEO
Ursula Burns is an American success story. From growing up in a deprived and dangerous area of New York, she became the first black woman to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Xerox, later becoming its president and chairwoman. She’s sat on the Board of Directors of Diageo, Uber, A ... Show More
41m 20s
Nov 2020
#34: How I Became Brave Enough: My First Steps as an Entrepreneur feat. Sasha Shillcutt, MD, MS
<p>Dr. Sasha Shillcutt is the CEO & Founder of Brave Enough, a company that empowers and teaches professional women to lead. She is a well published researcher in cardiac anesthesiology and gender equity, author, and international speaker.</p> <p>In 2016, she was awarded the nati ... Show More
28m 17s
Feb 2021
Developing Resilience on the Path to Becoming a CEO
As a Black female CEO, Shellye Archambeau is no stranger to adversity. Now she faces her most critical leadership decision. The software company she leads, MetricStream, is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash, and struggling to make payroll. Harvard Business School professor Tsed ... Show More
29m 41s
Sep 2021
Saved from the Nazis, she started a unicorn software company in the 1960s staffed with only women and just £6 - Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley
Dame Stephanie Shirley, known as ‘Steve’ for reasons explained in the podcast, escaped Nazi persecution before founding a software startup in 1962 with just £6 which provided employment to hundreds of women when they weren’t taken seriously in the workplace. “I remember selling a ... Show More
48m 43s
Dec 2020
ZigZag: Arlan Hamilton says capitalism is still the great equalizer
<p>"Today we're sharing an episode from another TED podcast: ZigZag, hosted by Manoush Zomorodi. </p><p>In 2018, Backstage Capital's Arlan Hamilton was on the cover of Fast Company magazine. The headline was irresistible: homeless, gay, Black woman becomes hot-shot Silicon Valley ... Show More
43m 3s
Jun 2024
685: The New Rules of Persuasion (with Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane)
Welcome to an interview with an award-winning marketer, TEDx speaker and authority in harnessing the instinctive mind to accelerate brand and business growth, founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. Leslie is the author of The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in ... Show More
46m 45s
Dec 2020
Renting the Pandemic Runway & Diversify, or Delist: the Nasdaq’s New Rule with Ursula Burns & Darren Walker
<p>The Nasdaq has proposed a new rule to require its 3,000+ listed companies to disclose Board of Directors demographics. Ursula Burns, former Xerox CEO and board member at Uber, Nestle, and ExxonMobil, joins Ford Foundation president Darren Walker in a discussion about diversity ... Show More
33m 13s