On this week’s podcast episode, you’ll be hearing from Vernā Myers, a Harvard-trained lawyer and founder of The Vernā Myers Company.

Vernā Myers was recently made VP, Inclusion Strategy at Netflix

For The Fix with Michelle King

COVID-19 is impacting people throughout the world and it’s never been a more important time to practice inclusive leadership. Leaders tend to react in various ways when fear, anxiety and uncertainty reign. Some might ignore or downplay the severity of the pandemic, attempting to move ahead with business as usual to the extent that is possible. Others might feel stunned by all of the chaos and act in ways that exacerbate the problem.

As the world mobilizes to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus, uncertainty abounds. One thing is clear, however: the COVID-19 outbreak underscores the need for business and society to work together, support one another, be resilient and prepared—qualities that all good leaders can foster.

On this week’s podcast episode, you’ll be hearing from Vernā Myers, a Harvard-trained lawyer and founder of The Vernā Myers Company. Vernā was recently made VP, Inclusion Strategy at Netflix. In this episode, Vernā shared how leaders can lead during this crisis using her four Cs of progress – Cultural Curiosity, Compassion, Consciousness, and Courage. In this conversation, we talked about practical tools for connecting and supporting one another in this difficult time.

About Michelle King

For years, we’ve been telling women that in order to succeed at work, they have to change themselves first — lean in, negotiate like a man, don’t act too nice or you’ll never get the corner office. But after nearly two decades of working with major Fortune 500 companies and researching gender equality, I have realized one simple truth — the tired advice of fixing women doesn’t fix anything.

That is why I have written The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers that are Holding Women Back at Work — I want everyone to know the truth, we need to fix workplaces, not women.

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