Published in 2017
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Kathryn Heath is a founding partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership. She serves as a developer of leadership programs, a coach, and a training designer.
Jill Flynn is a founding partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership. She specializes in creating and implementing company-specific pipelines for high-potential women.
Mary Davis Holt a senior consultant at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership (FHHL) – whose goal is to move women leaders forward, faster. She is an executive coach and keynote speaker on business, women, and leadership. As an in-demand voice, Mary shares her hard-won insights and promotes FHHL’s new rules for success to a wide range of audiences. Prior to joining FHHL, Mary held executive positions at Time Warner with oversight that ranged from finance to information technology, marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and distribution. She held a number of leadership roles in the publishing group including Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Time Life, Inc. Among her many career highlights, Mary led the management of worldwide manufacturing distribution for all of Time Inc.’s magazines (e.g., Time, Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated). She also served as president of Time Life Books and Time Life Kids. Mary earned a B.A. from Salem College and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Graduate Business School. Like her partners, she serves on a number of corporate and non-profit boards. Mary is based in the Washington, DC area
Diana Faison, M.Ed., is a Partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership (FHHL) whose goal is to move women leaders forward faster. With over twenty years of expertise in the fields of leadership training, executive coaching, and performance consulting, Diana has designed and facilitated over 600 workshops for both corporate and non-profit groups. Before becoming a Partner in 2013, Diana worked with FHHL for ten years as a consultant. She began her career at Queens University and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte as a Dean in Student Affairs and a teacher of Leadership Development studies. Over the span of her career, she has coached clients in a wide range of industries, including professional services, global real estate, financial services, software development, and healthcare. Diana has authored articles for Success and Lead Change Group, and is co-author of the book, The Influence Effect: A New Path to Power for Women Leaders (2017). She is a sought-after keynote speaker on business leadership topics such as political savvy, strategic planning, brand, personal power, authentic leadership, influence, and well-being, and she has spoken to groups for clients including Deloitte, Premier Inc. (healthcare), Fifth Third Bank, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Hill-Rom (medical equipment).
Anna Crowe is a voiceover artist and audiobook narrator. While her professional career includes co-owning a successful advertising and marketing agency that caters to television studios and networks, she has always been a storyteller and communicator first and foremost. She provides voiceover for a number of commercial clients and audiobook publishers around the country and lives in Burbank, California with her husband, Ron, and their dog, Samantha.
What is this book about?
It’s pure myth that women need to be more aggressive to succeed. Since the time when Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In was first published in 2013, one thing has become strikingly clear: leaning in simply isn’t enough to turn the tide. To the contrary, studies show that imitating male behavior doesn’t translate to professional advancement for women. The distinctive missing link is influence.
In every industry, from private equity investing to network television, women are underrepresented at the top and underpaid across the board and throughout their careers. The gap in the literature about what puts women ahead is influence – the capacity to have an impact on agendas and outcomes. Influence is more important to the women we work with than power itself.
The Influence Effect focuses on building influence that will enable women to gain traction in their careers and to achieve the advancement they deserve. The tools in this book are geared to help women rise above the politics of business and succeed on their own terms by achieving greater influence. Women have goals they want to achieve and ideas they can champion through change, and influence is the currency they need to make that happen.
