It's Not The Glass Ceiling, It's the Sticky Floor

International market, human capital and societal trends all indicate that now is the time for women to fill the leadership ranks in corporate America.

But do today's statistics show that women are well represented at the senior level? With women currently holding only 14.5% percent of the executive positions in F500 companies ...the answer is NO.

Rebecca Shambaugh, President and CEO of SHAMBAUGH and Founder of WILL, will present a provocative and engaging discussion regarding the "glass ceiling", also known as the organizational and cultural obstacles that women face in the workplace, as well as the "sticky floors", which are women's own limiting behaviors and beliefs that can hold us back from reaching our career aspirations.

Learn about seven key behavioral traits that can become "sticky floors" and learn ways to break free of them.

Rebecca is author of an upcoming book, It’s Not The Glass Ceiling, It’s The Sticky Floor. Her book is flagged as a potential best seller by its publisher, McGraw Hill. This book will illustrate her unconventional approach towards women in leadership. It brings to life her organization’s leadership programs for women and the thousands of speaking engagements she's given around the nation for the past 15 years, which focus on how women can get unstuck, empowered, move up, and prosper in their career.

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Rebecca ShambaughA nationally known leadership strategist, Rebecca Shambaugh has over twenty years of experience helping organizations and executives respond to critical leadership challenges and opportunities in today's business environment. Rebecca is President and CEO of SHAMBAUGH, where she founded Women In Leadership and Learning (WILL), an organization dedicated to the research, advancement, and retention of women leaders and executives.

Throughout her career, Rebecca has coached and worked with top senior executives on timely leadership areas such as crisis and change management, communications strategies, culture development, human capital development, and corporate governance. Prior to starting her own company, she worked for such premier organizations as General Motors, Fairchild Industries, and Amax Inc. as a senior executive in the leadership and human resources arena. Rebecca is known for her groundbreaking 21st Century Inclusionary. Rebecca founded the first executive leadership development program in the country devoted exclusively to optimizing the leadership skills of executive women, her WILL programs are must-attend events for women leaders.

Rebecca's pioneering approach to women and recent research in leadership was featured on National Public Radio and showcased on a two-hour telecast on PBS to over 20,000 executives around the United States. She has been featured in such known publications as Leader to Leader, New York Times, Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today, Washington Business Journal, Fortune Magazine, Fast Company, Pink Magazine, American Executive Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, American Management Association, Computer World and Professional Woman's Magazine.