CV Harquail
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CV Harquail, PhD, is an author, management scholar, consultant, writer, and tool maker. She is a co-founder of:
- FeministsAtWork.com, a feminist business practice consultancy - The Entrepreneurial FeministForums.com, a conference series for feminist entrepreneurs, and - The Feminist Enterprise Commons community. She advises LiisBeth.com, the international media group for feminist changemakers, and she mentors startup teams in the Canadian Film Centre’s Fifth Wave Feminist Media Business Accelerator. CV blended lean startup tools and feminist values to create the Feminist Business Model Canvas and the Feminist Project Canvas, as well as a suite of additional feminist business practice tools. CV recently published Feminism: A Key Idea in Business and Society (Routlege, 2020) the first book to explore business practice through a feminist lens. As a management professor, she’s taught entrepreneurship, leadership, and organizational change at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ) and The Darden Graduate School of Business at University of Virginia. She |
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pursued her master’s certificate and taught in the Women’s Studies at University of Michigan, and received her PhD in Leadership and Organizations from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Born and raised in Morris County, NJ, CV and her family now live in the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations, also known as Chicago.
Born and raised in Morris County, NJ, CV and her family now live in the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations, also known as Chicago.
General Session Topic:
Rethinking and Re-Doing Empowerment:
From “taking our places” to transforming the systems of business
If we want to support the success of “women in business”, what we’ve been doing for the past three decades won’t get us where we want to go in the future.
The current conversation about women’s empowerment in business has told us to improve ourselves so that we can become good enough—confident enough, mentored enough, professional enough – to fit the expectations of conventional business. This kind of empowerment has encouraged us to smush our women-shaped lives, our women-shaped visions for the future, and our women-shaped ambitions into a business world designed to fit men.
To make a real difference and fulfill our full potential as women, as contributors, and as business leaders, we actually need a different kind of empowerment. This is not an empowerment that is given to us, or an opportunity bestowed on us that we can ‘lean in’ to. Rather, it’s a form of empowerment that we take together.
This talk will unveil a new system to challenge the status quo and effective ways we can use our everyday roles and positions at work and in business to shift towards transformation. I’ll outline several of these tactics, so that participants can consider real-world ideas for empowering themselves and each other to reshape and transform their own workplaces together.
The current conversation about women’s empowerment in business has told us to improve ourselves so that we can become good enough—confident enough, mentored enough, professional enough – to fit the expectations of conventional business. This kind of empowerment has encouraged us to smush our women-shaped lives, our women-shaped visions for the future, and our women-shaped ambitions into a business world designed to fit men.
To make a real difference and fulfill our full potential as women, as contributors, and as business leaders, we actually need a different kind of empowerment. This is not an empowerment that is given to us, or an opportunity bestowed on us that we can ‘lean in’ to. Rather, it’s a form of empowerment that we take together.
This talk will unveil a new system to challenge the status quo and effective ways we can use our everyday roles and positions at work and in business to shift towards transformation. I’ll outline several of these tactics, so that participants can consider real-world ideas for empowering themselves and each other to reshape and transform their own workplaces together.
