Women Suited to Green Leadership - Building Gender Balanced Business

• Female leadership skills, such as the ability to lead complex, long-term projects in a collaborative manner, may put women in a good position to seize leadership roles in the green industry, argues a new article on the Glass Hammer website.

• It profiles a number of senior women working in sustainability, including Sue Cischke, Group Vice President, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering at Ford Motor Company — responsible for the company’s approach to sustainability and the environment — and Nancy Gioia, Ford’s Director, Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs.

• The article also refers to women in fund management, working in favour of environmentally strong companies. For example, Karina Funk and Elizabeth Levy work in equity research for Winslow Green Mutual Funds, an equity fund that invests in companies that have a strong record in tackling environmental challenges. And Wendy Wendlandt is President of Green Century Capital Management and Trustee of environmentally responsible mutual funds, Green Century Funds.

• Alexia Vernon, a leadership coach in the US, said, “Our nation is demanding green leaders who can ensure that the short and long term impacts of individual, business, and government actions on local, national, and international communities are for the greater good. This means leaders will need to possess such traditional female traits as balancing vision and mission, effective communication, consensus building, and ethical decision making to carry out these roles successfully.”

Source: The Glass Hammer website.