Success Across Generations
Last year at the Outsell Women’s Conference Karyn Schoenbart, CEO of The NPD Group, a leading research company, talked to the audience…
Outsell’s Third Annual Gender Diversity Study: Flat-Lining
With barely a pulse, the heartbeat to improved gender diversity in our industry’s executive ranks is imperceptible. We expect companies to…
Lessons Climbing the Career Ladder
Every career journey is a personal one and each has its own challenges and successes. Companies that seek to improve diversity and…
When Format Falls Over: Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education
Systemic change in sectors of the data, information, and analytics economy — we’ve seen them before, and we’re seeing it play out in…
Springer Nature’s appointment of a Global Director for Diversity & Inclusion in 2018 signaled how…
While we have so much to analyze and write about, our posts the last few weeks have taken a decided turn toward diversity and inclusion…
Getting to Yes & Achieving and Managing Wealth
When we programmed this year’s Outsell Women’s Conference we were doing so against rave reviews from last year and requests for more…
Outsell Women’s Conference: Follow the Pioneers
One of the things I love about the Outsell Women’s Conference is the focus on tangible advice and earning but through story and the power…
Outsell Women’s Conference — The Importance of Mentoring and Sponsoring
With women holding only 6% of the CEO positions in our industry’s top 350 companies and only 22% of the C-suite in those firms, we have…
Outsell Women’s Conference: Breaking Ground
One essential consideration in improving gender diversity in our industry’s leadership is paying attention to the generations that went…
Official Gender Gap Data UK
As we benchmark gender diversity in our industry’s largest companies and publish the data about which C-suites are well balanced and which…
Best-in-Class
We were asked a month or so ago to analyze best-in-class companies operating in the data, information, and analytics ecosystem that had…
We MUST Do Better
When Outsell first started we were a predominantly female-led company for many years. We then migrated more to a 50/50 split which was a…
CEO Sentiment and What We’re Advising
What’s on the minds of CEOs in our industry? A host of issues that evolve over time. We poll our leaders three times a year: once formally…
40/60 — Who Promotes Women
For three years in a row, we have surveyed the websites of the industry’s top 350 companies and measured their gender diversity in the…
The Outsell Growth Framework — Quick Checklist
We published details of the Outsell Growth Framework in an earlier blog post. Here’s a simple checklist for keeping key milestones in…
Improving Sales Effectiveness
You can lay down odds that when we speak with CEOs two things come up:
The CEO Product Mindset
I nearly cried the other day when I learned one of our clients hired a big name IT consultancy who recommended their Head of Product report…
The Exponential Power of Potential
So the BBC said it needed to ensure a better mix in male/female experts and says they will measure it. CNBC said only 2 out of 37 leaders…
5 Reasons to Attend the Outsell Women’s Conference
Our program for the Outsell Women’s Conference has gone live! We’ve designed it for women and men who want to improve diversity in our…
Facebook Reckoning
Cambridge Analytica shows Facebook is blind to the fact that users are just a click away from saying enough.
5 Lessons from D&B, Thomson Reuters, Informa, Gartner, and Other Industry Stalwarts
One can’t wake up these days without some major announcement shaking and rattling the industry to its core.
Announcing the Outsell Women’s Conference
Join us June 7 in New York, Hotel Sofitel. The program’s in motion, and you’re invited.
For the Love of Startups
A little love for Outsell’s first podcast on Valentine’s Day
About Purpose and Why We Started Outsell
I’ve been in the midst of writing some posts about Outsell and our most recent event Outsell DataMoney when two things came together…
How Companies Make Money with Their Data
Over 170 executives interested in commercializing data joined us at the Conrad Hilton on February 1 for Outsell DataMoney 2018 — and what a…
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