Dr. Karen Morley

Dr. Karen Morley, principal at Karen Morley & Associates, is an authority on the benefits of gender balanced leadership and how to help women to succeed at work. She helps leaders understand the value of inclusive leadership to organisational as well as social outcomes. She is the author of Beat Gender Bias: How to play a better part in a more inclusive world; Lead like a Coach: How to Make the Most of Any Team; and Gender-Balanced Leadership: An Executive Guide. Dr. Karen Morley is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Follow her on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.

CEO Journal

How to make the right career choices in a dream labour market

CEO JournalDr. Karen Morley

Right now it's a hot job market, which makes helping others to manage their careers even more important. One (more) of the challenges of the increased pace and amount of work that mystifyingly continues post-COVID is finding the time to help others do this, and yet it couldn’t be a...

CEO Journal

Making sure workers have a good day gives companies a competitive advantage

CEO JournalDr. Karen Morley

Despite the dizzying pace of innovation and digitization over the past couple of years, many senior business leaders say their digital strategy is outpaced by business demands. The need for digital solutions and innovations is already transforming how we work (and live), yet there remains a gap between what we...

CEO Insider

Why are we still overloaded with meetings when we know they don’t work?

CEO InsiderDr. Karen Morley

Do you know how many of your leaders are getting up at 4am in order to ‘get their work done’ before the day’s meeting frenzy begins? It’s likely to be more than you think. Or perhaps not – perhaps you’re also trying this tactic to get on top of your...

CEO Insider

He chased females around the office – 6 ways to deal with gender bias in the workplace

CEO InsiderDr. Karen Morley

When the revelations of #metoo caused a storm in Hollywood, and raised the lid on the mind-numbing extent of sexual harassment women experience at work, I caught myself thinking how lucky I was. At no time during my career had I been asked to have sex in return for work....

Lifestyle and Travel

How To Be An Ally By Calling Out Your Own Bias And That Of Others

Lifestyle and TravelDr. Karen Morley

It can be threatening for people who feel excluded to speak up about their different experiences and needs. When women ‘raise the gender card’ they may well be greeted by eyerolling. Being an ally means that you are proactive in your support, and call injustice out when you see it....

CEO Advisory

Why We Need To Recognise Our Own Gender Bias

CEO AdvisoryDr. Karen Morley

Traditionally, we expect women to be warm, kind, gentle, and understanding while we expect men to be tough, competitive, assertive and competent. We associate women with nurturing, support and lower status roles while we associate men with power, authority and higher status. We like women and respect men. While these...

CEO Agenda

How To Stop Co-workers Stealing Your Time

CEO AgendaDr. Karen Morley

Well before COVID-19 there were significant biases and challenges that disrupted work fairness for women. Women were, and remain, more likely to have their time stolen. And guarding it is not as easy as it sounds. The expectation, often tacit, that women’s time should be spent creating value for others...

Executive Insider

How to create Champions for gender inclusion

Executive InsiderDr. Karen Morley

Many of us don’t believe we can be powerful enough to make change, let along to make Champions. It seems to take a lot of effort and is something that other, more powerful people do. Board chairs and CEOs have the formal levers they can use to shift strategy and...

CEO Advisory

How Can Organisations Debias Their Decisions?

CEO AdvisoryDr. Karen Morley

People whose personal details and experiences signal they come from racially diverse backgrounds are less likely than whites to make it through the first cut in recruitment processes. Even if the organisation says it values diversity. A strategy adopted to beat the system is to ‘whiten’ information, and this makes...

Education and Career

How To Cultivate Trust By Delegating More

Education and CareerDr. Karen Morley

The demands of leadership continue to increase in pace and complexity. Leaders have to care about more things than ever before. If leaders delegated more they could cultivate greater trust, and increase both engagement and productivity. What can HR managers do to encourage leaders to delegate more? Under the pressure...

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Dr. Karen Morley

How to make the right career choices in a dream labour market

Making sure workers have a good day gives companies a competitive advantage

Why are we still overloaded with meetings when we know they don’t work?

He chased females around the office – 6 ways to deal with gender bias in the workplace

How To Be An Ally By Calling Out Your Own Bias And That Of Others

Why We Need To Recognise Our Own Gender Bias

How To Stop Co-workers Stealing Your Time

How to create Champions for gender inclusion

How Can Organisations Debias Their Decisions?

How To Cultivate Trust By Delegating More

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