Organizational Strategies & Workplace Culture
The Organizational Strategies & Workplace Culture spoke focuses on the decisions and actions that the leaders of any type of organization (e.g., business, nonprofit, government, schools, universities) take to elevate the stature of women in business and boardrooms and to support them to do so. This spoke highlights the organizational level strategies, initiatives, and programs that organizations use, including family-friendly practices and policies that support all employees and help them thrive. Areas of focus include increasing the percentage of women in senior leadership positions, increasing the retention rate of women at all levels of an organization, increasing the number of women on an organization’s board of directors, monitoring pay by gender and race to identify and close gaps, and establishing or enhancing leadership development and other types of programs.
Spoke Leaders
Heather MacDonald
Principal Consultant, Pluralsight
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Heather MacDonald is a Principal Consultant at Pluralsight designing workforce transformation strategies for a global portfolio of industry leading companies and academic institutions. She has spent over 15 years in corporate and community engagement roles.
Pat Jones
CEO, WLI
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Pat Jones is the CEO of the Women’s Leadership Institute. After spending 14 years in the Utah Legislature, 12 of those in leadership, and as she co-founded and presided over her own company, she is acutely aware of the challenges Utah women face. 
Pete Codella
Managing Director, GOEO
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Bold Goals
To make Utah a place where more girls and women can thrive, the Organizational Strategies & Workplace Culture spoke leaders, affiliates, and participants are currently working to craft bold goals for 2026 and 2030. These goals will be linked to measurable outcomes, connected to visual dashboards, and will be posted in June of 2023. Through finding, collecting, and visualizing data for this spoke, changes over time can be tracked and utilized to create momentum for additional changes.