Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership

Thrive in a senior leadership role as your best self. Inspire excellence in your team by channeling your own well-being. Lead a highly fulfilled life. This practical guide shows you how.

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About the book

How do you thrive as a formidable leader while combatting systemic barriers that add to the complexity of the challenges you face? The leadership book Arrive and Thrive from Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership’s Susan MacKenty Brady, Deloitte’s Janet Foutty and Simmons University President, Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten, is an impactful guide for women in leadership positions. Featuring personal stories from executives at today’s most successful organizations, Arrive and Thrive peels back the curtain on how to overcome obstacles through intentional practices to help you flourish.

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7 Impactful Practices for Arriving & Thriving^™

The paradigm for women for far too long has been about surviving if you’re lucky enough to arrive at the top. The 7 Impactful Practices for Arriving & Thriving^™ enable you to thrive and, in so doing, help others flourish as well. Grow as a person. Become a more effective leader. Champion change in your community.

1. Investing in Your Best Self: Lead from the best part of yourself―and ensure you tend to your mind, body, and spirit for continual renewal.
2. Embracing Authenticity: With intention and ease, bring your whole self to work.
3. Cultivating Courage: Commit to action, alongside your fear of doing so.
4. Fostering Resilience: Keep up with the pace and intensity while overcoming setbacks and emerging stronger than before.
5. Inspiring a Bold Vision: Enroll others in a mission that awakens their spirit and desire to create a stronger future.
6. Creating a Healthy Team Environment: Create an environment that is supportive, collaborative, and healthy.
7. Committing to the Work of an Inclusive Leader: Create the culture of inclusion and advancing equitable outcomes needed for high performance.

As you rise into your position of greater responsibility, risk, and reward, Arrive and Thrive offers the groundwork for making effective and fulfilling choices for yourself, your team, your industry, and your community.

Meet the authors

This trio of renowned women leaders from very different worlds—a powerful C-Suite executive, a top leadership well-being coach, and a respected university president and academic researcher—distill their collective knowledge into seven essential practices for any leader who wants to thrive in organizational life.

Susan MacKenty Brady is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership and CEO of Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership. A highly sought-after author and expert on self-aware leadership, Susan has keynoted or consulted at over 500 organizations worldwide.

Janet Foutty is the Executive Chair of the Board of Deloitte US. She previously was the chair and CEO of Deloitte Consulting. Janet is committed to purposeful leadership and recognizes that business can and should make a broader societal impact that matters.

Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten is President of Simmons University. Her academic research focuses on everyday leadership, crisis management, and workforce diversity. She also maintains a robust clinical practice devoted to leadership development.