Talent, Technology and Humanity: Building New Leadership Capability. We are in the midst of unprecedented change and unpredictability and many leaders are feeling challenged, anxious, and ill-equipped to deal with this change. With the anticipated widespread use of AI and other technology, new questions about leadership have emerged:

• What skills and attributes do leaders need?
• What is innate and what can be learned?”

Believing that AI can never replace human interaction, collaboration, companionship, and touch, Ginny Clarke looks at the intersection of technology, workers, and our humanity to outline how accountability measures, competency-based talent assessment, and tapping into the human capacity for self-awareness, empathy, and compassion can help leaders integrate AI and other emerging technologies in ways that engage their workforce and enhance organizational effectiveness.

Navigating Uncertainty Begins with Conscious Leadership Today. As we navigate uncharted waters, leaders are being called to do more and be more. The onus is on them to position their organizations and their people for success in the workplace during such a transformative period and beyond. Bringing a holistic perspective from inside some of the world’s leading organizations, Ginny Clarke shares her sought-after insights and wisdom on the ways conscious, effective leaders can get the best out of their people and, in turn, create high-performing teams for the future. In this talk, she outlines the importance of beginning with organizational health when guiding your workforce into the future — paying special attention to how to assess, attract, and hire the best talent, and establish a culture rooted in accountability, trust, integrity, and inclusion. Ginny goes beyond ideas and instead offers leaders practical tactics and processes for optimizing talent, resources, productivity, and profitability to create a disruption-proof workplace that is equipped for the long run.

The Great Workplace Transformation: Are You Ready? The rise in gig workers, remote team members, and interim management and leadership has led to a dramatic transformation in the workplace — a transformation for which organizations must prepare their leaders. Ginny Clarke takes a look at some of these new work models and explores the need for leaders to be able to effectively manage and lead highly diverse and geographically dispersed teams. Meanwhile, the leaders themselves could be new, even temporary, to the organization given the upswing in interim management. The uniqueness of these circumstances, and possible short-term strategy changes, means managers and leaders with the requisite skills are called in to bridge staffing or skill gaps. This transformed workforce and workplace will likely have to reflect workers’ expectations for their employers to prioritize purpose and well-being. Such a commitment will surely drive company growth, employee satisfaction, and a healthy culture.

Defining Your Culture Through Leadership. Through her extensive work with leadership assessment and hiring, Ginny has experienced and witnessed the impact — both positive and negative — that leaders’ behaviors can have on an organization’s culture. Concluding that organizational culture is largely an amalgam of the behaviors of senior leaders, she shines a light on some critical leadership responsibilities, such as managing conflict; decision-making; dealing with ambiguity, that when handled poorly, have unintended consequences. These consequences include diminished leadership credibility, low employee morale, weakened financial performance, and a toxic workplace and culture. In this talk, she offers personal stories, case studies, and valuable wisdom for getting a successful start and remediating troubled situations. 

You Don’t Have a Diversity Problem, You Have a Leadership Problem. Ginny Clarke brings her unique perspective on leadership having recently led diversity, internal mobility, and non-tech recruiting for Google’s executive recruiting function — as well as having co-founded the Diversity Practice for global search firm, Spencer Stuart. She has been in corporate boardrooms and C-suites assessing and advising leaders for nearly 25 years and has a deep understanding of how to fairly assess all talent and build that capability in your organization. She takes the provocative view that leaders can be the ailment or the remedy for Corporate America’s “Diversity Problem” and suggests that we are not getting to root causes and that amounts to “Organizational Malpractice,” which can leave the organization weaker than before the treatment started. In this “no-holds-barred” talk, she offers solutions to the root causes that have led to a lack of diversity in our organizations. 

Claiming Your Success: Leading From Where You Are. Operating inside of, and with, highly competitive and complex organizations, Ginny Clarke had to develop her own principles to be and remain a strong and effective leader, while maintaining her physical, mental, and emotional health. She shares her mindset of “Free Agency” — the idea that you own your career, as well as her commitment to personal mastery, and her approach to getting what she needed from her employers — all in the name of moving the organization forward and being a healthy, happy and successful leader — on her terms. Her insights can be adapted and applied by anyone who is determined to lead as their most authentic self.

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