Betsy Myers

Women’s Business and Leadership Expert, Author, Former Senior Political Advisor

With deep experience in the corporate, political, and higher education arena, Betsy Myers served as a senior advisor to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign. A top political keynote speaker, she joined the campaign in January 2007 as the Chief Operating Officer tasked with the challenge of building a $100,000,000 organization and established the campaign with a business operational model and customer service mentality.

  • Betsy Myers Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Massachusetts, USA

  • Betsy Myers Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Massachusetts, USA

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Leading With Both Head and Heart: Unlocking the Potential of Modern Leadership

Is  your team actively engaged, committed, and passionate about your mission and purpose? Are you struggling with attracting and retaining top talent? Head and Heart Leadership may be a key to moving toward your organization’s goals. Be inspired and motivated ...

Is  your team actively engaged, committed, and passionate about your mission and purpose?

Are you struggling with attracting and retaining top talent?

Head and Heart Leadership may be a key to moving toward your organization’s goals. Be inspired and motivated by real-world stories and examples of successful leaders, as Betsy guides your leadership team through a journey of self-discovery and growth.

Explore the principles of head and heart leadership and why it is needed in today’s mdoern organization.

  • Uncover and analyze your authentic leadership style and tackle the behaviors that impede personal and organizational success.
  • Strengthen your self-leadership to build the foundation upon which you lead others.
  • Learn how to foster a sense of community, connection, and caring in your organization that brings out everyone’s best selves.

Applying the wisdom of head and heart leadership energizes leaders to:

  • champion your organization’s purpose with a well-developed strategy.
  • firmly grasp current data and trends.
  • lead with the compassion and emotional intelligence needed to connect with your team and your customers.

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Advancing Women Leaders: Changing the Game for Women in the Workplace

Is advancing women a strategic priority in your organization? Are you building a culture where women leaders can excel and flourish? Do the women in your company feel valued and supported, that they can grow as individuals and leaders? Gender parity isn’...

Is advancing women a strategic priority in your organization?

Are you building a culture where women leaders can excel and flourish?

Do the women in your company feel valued and supported, that they can grow as individuals and leaders?

Gender parity isn’t a women’s issue- it’s a business issue.

At a time when it’s never been more important, 50% of organizations have no clear strategy to advance women leaders. Nearly half of those that do have a plan do not address barriers faced by women, such as corporate culture. Last year, 45% more women than men left jobs in the top growth sectors, citing culture as the primary reason.

The good news is that there are success stories and new ideas gaining traction, making a difference in retention, advancement, and engagement of women talent and women as customers.

What is genuinely getting results?
Women leaders at all levels stay at their companies longer and excel in their careers when organizations address four key areas:

  • Culture of inclusion, where the human aspect is present in every decision.
  • Executive commitment and deliberate action to make women’s advancement a strategic priority.
  • Focused and intentional leadership development programs, initiatives, and policies.
  • Individual development opportunities for women to uncover behaviors and beliefs that create barriers to success.

Explore with Betsy how you can increase your success around women’s
leadership. We can tailor a program for your organization that will create significant progress in the support, advancement, and retention of this valuable resource.

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The Individual Women Leader: Taking Charge of Our Own Success

What does success look like at work and home? When the stakes are high, organizational politics are at play, and your emotions are triggered, do you act consciously and strategically? Are you waiting for someone to notice your efforts and good work? Are ...

What does success look like at work and home?

When the stakes are high, organizational politics are at play, and your emotions are triggered, do you act consciously and strategically?

Are you waiting for someone to notice your efforts and good work?

Are you caught in a to-do list of demands, keeping you from getting to what really matters in your life?

Every woman is a leader. It is our personal responsibility to be the leader of our life, and understand our strengths, weaknesses and what might be holding us back.

The hardest person we will ever manage is ourselves, but we must start there. The key is a commitment to self-awareness and self- knowledge. Looking outside ourselves for our value, or waiting for someone to notice our greatness, is a dead end. We must instead take the reins of our careers and our lives. Our true power lies in our willingness to lead ourselves. We cannot lead others before we learn ourselves. That is where our true power lies and how we will achieve the results we desire in our personal and professional lives.

Work with Betsy to examine the key aspects of self-leadership:

  • Self-awareness: Knowing your strengths, weaknesses, values, beliefs, and emotions. The willingness to understand what gives you energy and what might be holding you back.
  • Self-motivation: Being clear about your why and what success looks like for you professionally and personally. Combining discipline, the willingness to seek support and mentorship, and building the confidence muscle to move toward your goals, even when faced with challenges.
  • Social awareness: Being aware of the social context around you and understanding how others perceive, hear, and interact with you. It is the ability to be your authentic self while also being strategic to succeed in the role that you hold and have chosen.

Learn tools and action steps to support today’s women leaders, personally and professionally, while diving deep into reflections that will inform our personal leadership objectives and create a strategy to become our best selves.

 

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Women and worthiness: the root of success

Is fear of taking risks holding you back from reaching for what you really want? Do you often feel you must work harder and contribute more than your share at work and home to prove or earn your worth? Does your own success come with anxiety, because your self-...

Is fear of taking risks holding you back from reaching for what you really want?

Do you often feel you must work harder and contribute more than your share at work and home to prove or earn your worth?

Does your own success come with anxiety, because your self-doubt makes you sometimes feel like you’re a fraud?

The Worthy Meter

Betsy has developed a powerful tool to help participants examine their relationship with self worth. The Worthy Meter© serves as a guide to shining a light on beliefs and habits that exacerbate unworthiness. The Worthy Meter© teaches how to be alert to unproductive behaviors—and the road map to choose differently.

Wherever you are on your personal leadership journey, Betsy’s insights, along with The Worthy Meter©, can empower you with a new understanding of how to build your self-worth muscle.

  • Explore where our sense of worthiness comes from, what it is influenced by, including our family of origin, societal and cultural messages and norms, and life’s circumstances
  • Examine how many issues – among them lack of confidence, fear of taking risks, setting poor boundaries, people-pleasing, or choosing unhealthy relationships – stem from our struggles with self-worth.
  • Learn about imposter syndrome – what it is and how it may be affecting your ability to embrace your success.

This session offers a supportive space to explore the concept of worthiness and how it may be holding women back.

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About Keynote Speaker Betsy Myers

Betsy Myers is on a mission to improve leadership by developing leaders and teams who infuse passion and purpose into their organizations by leading from both the head and the heart.

Betsy’s insightful keynotes and workshops have inspired and offered practical guidance to executives and managers around the world who want to level up their leadership, retain top talent, and achieve results in the modern workplace.

With over three decades as a researcher, writer, speaker, and consultant, Betsy is a renowned expert on emerging leadership trends and women’s leadership. Her extensive experience includes the corporate world, government settings, and in higher education. She is the author of Take the Lead: Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You.

Previously, Betsy was founding director of the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University, a repository of best practices for corporations to recruit and retain women leaders. She was Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, focusing the Center’s teaching and research around authentic inner leadership. She held leadership roles in the U.S. Small Business Administration, including as the Director of the Office of Women’s Business Ownership at the SBA where she was an advocate for the 9.4 million women entrepreneurs in our country.

A senior adviser to two U.S. presidents, Betsy served as President Clinton’s Advisor on Women’s Issues, was the first Director of the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach, and was Chief Operating Officer of President Obama’s 2008 National Presidential Campaign.

A Public Service Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Betsy has a Masters in Public Administration. She currently serves on the Council on Advancing Women in Business for the Export-Import Bank of the United States. When not traveling, across the country and around the world, to teach and inspire leaders, Betsy resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

Testimonials

“Betsy’s wealth of leadership experience combined with her authentic delivery was extremely impactful to our leaders.  She has an uncanny ability to connect with her audience through real life examples of success and struggles.  Betsy is a tremendous talent and her impact has been felt throughout our leadership team.”

Elizabeth Bryant

Talent Development,Southwest Airlines

“If you want someone to motivate you, to teach you how to move a project from A to B, to help you understand how to get a job done, done right and done on time, there’s no one better than Betsy Myers.”

Erskine Bowles

Former White House Chief of Staff & Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton

“Betsy Myers — with her intellect, power and presence — is able to connect with an audience in a way that is intimate and personal allowing each participant to feel empowered.”

Linda Clemons

CEO, Sisterpreneur, Inc

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