Kellie McElhaney

Kellie McElhaney

Dr. Kellie McElhaney is on faculty as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow and the Founding Director of the Center for Gender, Equity and Leadership at Berkeley Haas. Launched in November, 2017, the center is focused on agitating, activating, and fiercely turning up the volume and velocity on diversity and inclusion leadership in the business leadership world. Berkeley Haas graduates over 1,000 leaders a year, and the center will ensure that Berkeley leaders are diversity fluent. It will also partner deeply with the powerbase that is the corporate sector. In 2003, Kellie founded the Haas School's Center for Responsible Business, solidifying corporate responsibility as a core competency and competitive advantage of the school. She has received the Founder and Visionary Award at Haas.
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A Berkeley EMBA student

Women in Leadership | 2 MIN READ

The value of an MBA for women aspiring to leadership

Many people think of an MBA simply as another qualification—a piece of paper to frame and hang on your office wall. While a degree from a quality MBA ...
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balanced stones

Women in Leadership | 2 MIN READ

How to get what you need to be a successful leader

No matter who you are, if you want someone to do something for you, the best way to achieve your goal is to simply ask. Unfortunately, for many of ...
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Keys

Women in Leadership | 2 MIN READ

The keys to shaping culture to foster gender equity

Unfortunately, the American workplace has not been making significant progress towards gender and racial equity. According to Catalyst, there are ...
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Truth torn paper sized for blog

Diversity and Inclusion | 2 MIN READ

Four myths that (still) get in the way of women and leadership

Surprisingly, almost two decades into the 21st century, there are still myths about women in business and leadership that get in the way of our ...
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paper boats with pink in the lead

Women in Leadership | 10 MIN READ

The gender gap at work: Real and pervasive, but not invincible

For decades we have known that there’s a significant and deeply-entrenched gender gap in the workplace—that women are paid less than men for doing ...
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