Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine: Why Only 4% of Million-Dollar Companies Are Run by Women

"Aggressive is assertive. Men are assertive and women are aggressive. Same behavior."Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine has a PhD in conflict resolution and has coached leaders through Disney, iHeartRadio, and beyond — and she spends up to half of every coaching session doing one specific thing: rehearsing how her clients talk, not what they know. Because on paper, the barriers are gone. In practice, 40% of American companies are run by women — and only 4% of the companies making seven figures or more are.Karl and Dr. Liz dig into the "bitch vs. boss" double standard, why the advice to "just be your authentic self" can actually sabotage women leaders, and why the leadership skills the modern business world actually needs — empathy, listening, consensus-building — are the ones women have been told for decades to downplay.What you'll get from this episode:The stat every executive should sit with: 40% of companies are women-run, only 4% of million-dollar companies areWhy "just be authentic" is often bad advice — and what Dr. Liz does instead with high-performing clientsThe role-playing exercise Dr. Liz runs with a top-10%-intelligence attorney client, and why it takes up half their coaching timeHow unconscious bias — not individual malice — is what actually keeps this gap in placeWhy the leadership skills the AI-era business world rewards most are the ones historically coded as "soft" — and who's already better at them#H2H #HumanConnectionPodcast #StartupLeadership #CompanyCulture #WomenInLeadership===You can connect with Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine here:Website: https://drlizdubois.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bizdrliz/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bizdrlizInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrliz/You can connect with Karl Pontau here:www.vouchedconnections.comwww.thehumanconnectionpodcast.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kpontauhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbf_bDWwB9KVrFn5Sj3u2w?sub_confirmation=1Please like, subscribe, and share this episode with somebody you care about!