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Biases and Talent Decisions
March 20, 2020by Erik PesnerWe are all prone to biases that can skew our thinking and reduce the quality of our decision making. These biases are often present when...

3 Secrets to Building Virtual High-Performing Teams
March 16, 2020By Stephen Garcia, Ed.D. & Tony Susa, Ph.D.As Covid-19 forces us to work from home, the importance of building and maintaining effective virtual t...

5 Ways Women Leaders Cultivate Their Power Source
March 11, 2020Chelsea Mitamura, Ph.D.International Women’s Day made us think deeply about our fervor for empowering women leaders. CLA is committed to helping women...

Overcoming the ‘Resistance to Change’ Mindset
January 31, 2020Every textbook on organizational change has as a central tenet the idea of “resistance to change.” The premise is that people have a predi...

Gender and Power: The Inequality in Sexual Advances at Work
March 29, 2019CLA’s affiliated Institute for Contemporary Leadership recently conducted a study on the factors that impact men’s and women’s career advancement. The...

Skip the Scotch: Women are 2X More Likely Than Men to Be Excluded From Informal Networks at Work
December 11, 2018Contemporary Leadership Advisors’ affiliated Institute for Contemporary Leadership recently conducted a study on the commonalities and differences in ...

Women in Leadership: Designing and Developing Your Personal Power Source
October 28, 2018There is little question that traditional gender stereotypes do not typically associate women with “power” in the workplace. Here, we use power to mea...

Dan Fisher, Managing Partner at CLA, Joins Board of Non-Profit Row New York
March 13, 2017NEW YORK, NY, 2017 – Dan Fisher, Managing Partner with Contemporary Leadership Advisors (CLA), has been named to the board of directors for Row New Yo...

Five Ideas for Increasing Your Digital Leadership
March 9, 2017Advances in digital technologies (e.g. social, mobile, cloud, big data, etc.) are dramatically improving how businesses operate. MIT’s Center for Dig...