Rising Together

How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace

By: Sally Helgesen

Narrated by: Marshall Goldsmith, Sally Helgesen

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

In this follow-up to her international bestseller How Women Rise, Sally Helgesen draws on three decades of work with executives and aspiring leaders around the world to offer practical ways to build more inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces.

Participants at leadership conferences often tell Sally, “Please don’t spend your time telling us why developing and retaining a diverse workforce is important. We get it. The problem is, we don’t know how to do it.” Rising Together provides that missing how in full detail by identifying both what holds us back and specific tactics that can help us move forward.

First, Sally identifies the eight common triggers most likely to undermine our ability to collaborate across divides—not only of gender, but also of age, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and life experience. These triggers are widespread, yet rarely acknowledged. They include differences in how people from different backgrounds view ambition, competence, perceptions, fairness, communication, networks, attraction, and humor.

Sally then offers specific practices designed to address these triggers: simple behavioral tweaks that we can use on a daily basis; a method for informally enlisting allies to hold us to account; and a means for cultivating and disseminating the dynamic power of we.

Rising Together is for listeners at every stage and level in their careers who recognize that building a broad range of relationships is essential to their advancement, now and in the future. This book also serves as an indispensable guide for HR, diversity, and leadership professionals tasked with addressing the misunderstandings, resentments, and derailments caused by the eight triggers. Sally’s focus on behaviors—how we act—rather than bias—how we think—promises to redirect the inclusion conversation in a grounded, real-world way that brings us together.

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Critic reviews

"What so often gets left out of the conversation on diversity is the how. By focusing on inclusive behaviors, Sally Helgesen provides it. Rising Together is a much-needed guide to going from awareness to action.”—Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global

“Sally Helgesen has been highly influential in my career. When I first started on Wall Street, her books The Female Advantage and The Web of Inclusion were revelatory. How Women Rise and Rising Together are equally so. Elegant, enlightened, powerful and sage.”—Whitney Johnson, Top #10 Management Thinker and WSJ bestselling author of Smart Growth

“Sally Helgesen has been the architect of my awakening on the importance of women’s leadership and the pressing need for inclusive leadership. With Rising Together, she shows how it’s done.”—Tom Peters, author of The Excellence Dividend and The Compact Guide to Excellence

Great Opportunity To Change Our Story

This book made me stop and think. It’s about taking a good look at ourselves and being open to shaking things up. "Rising Together" is eye-opening. It’s like having a heart-to-heart with a wise friend who wants the best for you. Diving into this book has been illuminating for me. Taking the time to soak in her wisdom is like investing in a better, more enlightened you. Highly recommend giving it a read!

LGBTQ'er loves this book

I work for a Fortune 200 company now and definitely flavors of the OBC (old boys club) everywhere around here. This book taught me things just a few chapters in that I used the following day. TY for helping us Rise Together!