Published Works
What is Global Leadership?
10 Key Behaviors That Define Great Global Leaders
In What Is Global Leadership?, the authors draw on cutting-edge research conducted by Aperian Global, including first-hand interviews with successful global leaders, which highlights ten key behaviors critical to international settings, such as cultural self-awareness, frame-shifting, and developing "third-way solutions."
In addition to providing a detailed description of each behavior, the authors demonstrate how these can be applied in the context of leadership development programs, executive coaching, global teams, and leader-led action learning. Whether one is leading an entire organization, a business unit, or a geographically dispersed team, this essential guide provides an important resource for developing global leadership talent.
“This wonderful book addresses the hottest talent issue facing global organizations ... a serious shortage of leaders who can work across the world. You'll have a deep grasp of the capabilities required to lead globally. Filled with concrete and insightful guidance, this is an invaluable resource.”
―Jay A. Conger, author of Growing Your Company's Leaders and The Practice of Leadership
Leading Across Borders
How To Succeed As The Center Shifts
An insightful, real-world look at the skills today's global leadership demands
Leading Across Borders is the leadership guide for the new business environment. The world's economic center of gravity is shifting at a rapid pace – huge emerging economies have already emerged. As businesses operate in an increasingly global context, the most successful leaders are able to see through the eyes of others and to hear the voices of customers and colleagues from around the world. They build their own personal networks, navigate differences, and work effectively across new borders – both the physical borders between countries and the limits of old leadership paradigms.
“What makes this book stand out from other books on leadership is that it is so thoroughly global in its approach. It challenges leaders and their organizations to embrace the big shift that is taking place in the world’s center of economic gravity, from advanced to emerging economies.”
―Pankaj Ghemawat, author of Redefining Global Strategy, Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy, IESE Business School, Barcelona and Global Professor of Management and Strategy and Director of the Center for the Globalization of Education and Management, Stern School of Business, New York University
Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing
How To Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
This collection is a go-to resource for individuals wishing to heighten leadership effectiveness through access to vanguard theory and practice. It highlights stories and insights from leadership practitioners and scholars around the world, in the process offering invaluable insights into diverse lessons, models, and practices, and it offers case and place-based chapters that bridge theory and practice to empower diverse actors around the world. Karen is the author of chapter 8 in this book, “Perspectives and Possibilities.” This chapter aligns closest with Sustainability Development Goal #16: to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development; provide access to justice for all; and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
“This uplifting volume is packed full of inspirational stories and practical tools from a wide range of leadership practitioners. Evoking the 'winds of hope' the UN Secretary-General is calling for; it inspires both optimism and positive action for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.”
―Amanda Ellis, Senior sustainability Scholar and former Ambassador to the UN (Geneva)