How to Get More Women Into Leadership Through Mentorship | Chinasa Ude Imo

How do we get more women into leadership, and help the women already leading grow even stronger? Behavioral scientist Chinasa Ude Imo argues that women in leadership is about more than balancing the numbers. It takes access to training, real capacity, and women already in those seats reaching back to show the path they walked.

Chinasa grew up in Abia State, Nigeria, and lost her mother young. Her mother, a teacher who fought to keep her daughters in school, was her first mentor, and that loss shaped the work Chinasa does today. She talks with Greg Aden about why she chose Chicago, what studying human behavior taught her about fear of the unknown, and how she built a set of mentors by studying people from a distance long before she could meet them.

In this conversation: - Why access and capacity matter more than parity alone when moving women into leadership roles - The first question Chinasa asks anyone who wants her as a mentor: where do you want to be in ten years - Why mentorship is not limited by gender, and how support groups open doors to indirect mentorship - How to find mentors by following their work, events and reasoning before you ever meet them

Guest: Chinasa Ude Imo, https://linkedin.com/in/chinasa-ude-imo

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