This presentation was given at the Career Women Interaction (FCI-CWI) 2013 Conference Series in Edmonton "4th edition: Women in Leadership: Leading Competently" on October 22, 2013 at the Edmonton Petroleum Club. Description: Challenge: create a new business in an existing, established institution. Drive innovation, implement organizational change, and build new talent while you’re at it. Don’t forget to bring in significant new revenues. Session outcomes: • Discover the opportunities women leaders have to blaze a new path in establishing teams that enable the edges of innovation, whatever your industry may be. • Recognize your “secret sauce”; your authentic leadership attitude that drives innovation. • Learn specific tactics on how to implement institutional change across a complex landscape. • Understand who your edges are or might be, how to embrace them, and how to help them thrive.

1. Leadership and Attitude:
Enable the Edges
Jennifer Chesney
Associate Vice-President, University Digital Strategy
Twitter: @JGChesney #UAlberta
Email: jchesney@ualberta.ca

2. Framework of Challenge
Create a new business in an existing, established institution.
Drive innovation.
Implement organizational change,
and build new talent while you’re at it.
*Don’t forget to bring in significant new revenues.*

3. Session Outcomes
• Discover the opportunities women leaders have to blaze a
new path in establishing teams that enable the edges of
innovation, whatever your industry may be
• Recognize your edge – the “secret sauce”; your authentic
leadership attitude that drives innovation
• Learn specific tactics on how to implement institutional
change across a complex landscape
• Understand who your edges are or might be, how to
embrace them, and how to help them thrive

4. Session Outcomes
• Discover the opportunities women leaders have to blaze a
new path in establishing teams that enable the edges of
innovation, whatever your industry may be

5. Women as Innovators
You see subtleties he does not
You use your networks of knowledge
You take risks in the face of ambiguities
Reality Check

6. Session Outcomes
• Recognize your edge – the “secret sauce”; your authentic
leadership attitude that drives innovation
• Learn specific tactics on how to implement institutional
change across a complex landscape

10. Session Outcomes
• Learn specific tactics on how to implement institutional change across
a complex landscape

18. Session Outcomes
• Understand who your edges are or might be, how to
embrace them, and how to help them thrive

19. Tenacious
Persistent
Have perspective
Unflappable
Inspired
Inspiring
Intuitive
Who are your organization’s edges?

20. 8 Supports to
Help the Edges Thrive
1. Hire them into your team or
2. Create cross-functional team to focus on new solutions
3. Give them innovation time
4. Tear down the cubicle walls
5. Empower them to form their own teams
6. Support their professional development
7. Encourage outside interests or consulting
8. Family first
Help the Edges Thrive

21. A final word (and challenge) to women:
Are you helping each other?
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help
other women”
- Madeleine Albright, Former US Secretary of State
From Keynote speech at “Celebrating Innovation” luncheon with the WNBA’s All-decade team, 2006

22. Questions?
Jennifer Chesney
Associate Vice-President, University Digital Strategy
Twitter: @JGChesney #UAlberta
Email: jchesney@ualberta.ca

23. Thank you!
Jennifer Chesney
Associate Vice-President, University Digital Strategy
Twitter: @JGChesney #UAlberta
Email: jchesney@ualberta.ca

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