Speaker Spotlight: Herminia Ibarra

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Ready to lead with authenticity and impact? In this learning path, Herminia Ibarra shares powerful insights on stepping up as a leader, mastering situational leadership, and collaborating with confidence to inspire your team and drive results.

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Working Identity, Updated Edition

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Whether you’re pursuing a career change out of self-fulfillment or you’re forced into it by outside circumstances, making the transition can be fraught with stress and uncertainty. In the updated edition of Working Identity, leadership expert Herminia Ibarra offers an insightful framework for making this transition easier, more rewarding, and more successful. Based on the principle that changing careers involves changing yourself, Ibarra champions an unconventional, action-based approach to career change. As her many real-life examples illustrate, there’s no one prescribed step-by-step met…

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Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader: Updated Edition

Book Summary | Herminia Ibarra

Harvard Business School Publishing

First published in 2015, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader was at the forefront of leadership thought, particularly in coaching leaders to learn through action and experiment with new ways of being. In the updated edition, leadership expert Herminia Ibarra reemphasizes these important lessons, advocating for you to be a “learn it all” and an agent of change who can help others thrive through disruption, uncertainty, and adaptive challenges. She highlights five strategies you can adopt today to be the leader you and others need for the road ahead.

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Working Identity

Book Summary | Herminia Ibarra

Harvard Business School Publishing

When contemplating a career change, you may question how well you know yourself or the right direction for your future. You will likely cycle through periods of deep introspection and assessment, and be unable to make decisions until your path is clear. This conventional approach to change can encourage you to think and then act, but career changes often do not follow this sequential model. In Working Identity, Herminia Ibarra encourages you to escape the theoretical and learn who you really are by taking concrete steps forward.

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Putting Situational Leadership into Practice

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Your leadership style may need to vary depending on the situation you are faced with or the people you are persuading. Herminia Ibarra reveals how to avoid overusing one particular leadership style and instead develop flexibility and range.

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How to Have a Career Conversation with Your People

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Your conversations with those you lead should not just be about their current skills or job descriptions. Herminia Ibarra talks about the importance of having career conversations with your people.

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How to Become a Collaborative Leader

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Most of us started out in the workplace as solo players, not collaborative teammates, but collaborative leadership is becoming vital in today’s business world. Herminia Ibarra shares 2 steps you can take to become a more collaborative leader.

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How Do You Know You Are in a Competency Trap?

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Doing something well can cause you to become stuck in a competency trap. Herminia Ibarra explains how to build a bridge from your competency to other, more relevant ones.

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Being an Authentic Leader: The Authenticity Paradox

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As you move into different and more challenging roles, you may feel less like your authentic self. Herminia Ibarra discusses how you can take steps to be a more authentic leader.

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Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

Book Summary | Herminia Ibarra

Harvard Business School Publishing

Many business professionals desire to enhance their leadership abilities and lead with greater impact. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Herminia Ibarra explains how people can step up to leadership roles and gain valuable new perspectives by redefining their jobs, diversifying their networks, and becoming more playful with their self-concepts. This will help professionals transform how they think about how they spend their time, the quality of their professional relationships, and what kinds of leaders they want to become. By making a series of small but crucial changes in their …

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Developing the Next Generation of Leaders

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Thinkers50 member Herminia Ibarra stresses the importance of developing the next generation of leaders. She offers an effective strategy on how to do so.

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How Women Can Advance to Senior Roles

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Many women are not given mission-critical assignments early in their careers. Thinkers50 member Herminia Ibarra identifies steps women can take to overcome barriers and reach senior roles in their organizations.

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How to Develop Your Strategic Network

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Thinkers50 member Herminia Ibarra identifies 3 different networks we all use. She provides tips on how to develop your strategic network in order to add value to your organization.

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Authentic Leadership: How to Become the New You

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How do you find your future authentic self? Thinkers50 member Herminia Ibarra reveals the steps you should take to avoid repeating the past and stretch to become the new, authentic you.

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To Step Up as a Leader, You Have to Step Out

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It is vital for leaders to step out of their comfort zones. Thinkers50 member Herminia Ibarra offers advice on how you can break free and step out of your immediate area of expertise.

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How to Think Strategically

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Thinking strategically requires thinking long term and systemically. Thinkers50 member Herminia Ibarra shares an important step you must take to become a strategic thinker.

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