Anna Klingseisen

Enhancing the women's leadership pipeline at all levels within a Fortune 1000 company is critical. By ensuring that women are represented throughout the organization, companies can leverage a wider range of experiences and perspectives to enhance the overall effectiveness of the organization.

This research examined strategies to remove institutional barriers to women’s advancement into leadership roles. The key finding is that leaders influence women’s career development, with qualitative analysis identifying factors that both hinder and support women’s workplace progress. This presentation describes methods for leaders to identify, cultivate and promote women's leadership potential and details key themes relating to the leader's role in influencing the leadership pipeline.

Advisor: Kabo Yang