Best Team Ever with David Burkus Friday, May 3, 2024

Dr. Wanda Wallace is President and CEO of Leadership Forum. LF helps organizations improve the quality of their conversations to enable them to get what they want and keep it, from leadership and talent to strategic thinking, enabling leaders to deliver better results through better thinking, execution, leadership, teams and diversity.

In her coaching, writing and public speaking, she emphasizes the challenges of building and sustaining effective relationships at all levels in the global corporate context.

Wanda is passionate about helping women get the roles they want, stick with the organization and thrive, as well as engaging managers in the diversity agenda. Broadening the message from that work, Wanda also focuses on the trap for men and women who are expert executors in her latest book “You Can’t Know it All”.

Dr. Wallace has forged close relationships with a number of blue-chip clients. As a consultant and educator who is equally at ease in the distinct worlds of business and education, she has designed a number of highly rated programs that have been enthusiastically received around the world.

She is the author of “You Can’t Know it All: Leading in the age of deep expertise” about navigating the path from an expert leader to a spanning leader. Wanda has also written “Reaching the Top, Factors that Impact the Careers and Retention of Senior Women Leaders” along with two co-authored publications with Corporate Research Forum entitled “Diversity and Business Performance” (2011) and “Developing and Broadening Specialists” (2012). Wanda is also a regular contributing author for Strategy & Business Magazine and Talent Quarterly.

In 2020 Wanda launched a brand new multi-tier subscription membership package to provide practical ways to implement the material learnt in her podcasts to enhance people’s careers. The Membership package delivers diverse special guest appearances and downloadable resources.