062: Stephanie Murphy - Leadership: Old Wine in New Bottles

Leadership Is Changing

Dr. Stephanie Murphy currently leads the Assessments & Analytics practice at Dell Technologies. Here she manages global projects such as Dell's employee engagement survey reaching over 140,000 team members, conducts research and surveys to improve Dell’s global performance management and career practices, develops and implements strategies for key executive solutions, and validates skills and assessments that are used to identify and develop talent. She aided in the culture integration efforts as Dell Technologies made history with one of the largest acquisitions in the Tech industry. Stephanie also teaches management courses to undergraduate and graduate students at McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

In the past, Stephanie served as project manager at AROS Consulting, a University-based consulting firm. Here she gained both practical experiences, from working with Fortune 500 hundred companies to nonprofit and local organizations, and research experiences, from measure development to experience sampling methods and Smartphone research.

Stephanie holds a B.S. in psychology from the University of New Orleans and a Ph.D. and M.A. in industrial-organizational psychology from Louisiana Tech University.

On this Episode:

• Hear Stephanie’s background and how she “stumbled” into her area of work.
• Stephanie shares her journey as an African-American woman and how she had others advocate for her to become a leader.
• Hear Stephanie talk about humility in leadership.
• Stephanie and Denis talk about the differences in human and virtual leadership and how to manage both.
• Stephanie talks about moving from hierarchy to collaborative leadership.
• Hear Stephanie share her thoughts on adaptability in leadership and why it is key.

Key Takeaways:

• Don’t be afraid to be on someone’s level to build trust.
• To make leadership personal- check in on people more than once.
• Shift your view of leadership from “power” to “empower”.

Tweetable Quotes:

“There is more to leadership than being in power over a team. There was this need to influence people and motivate people.” - Dr. Stephanie Murphy

“Leadership is putting your team before yourself.” - Dr. Stephanie Murphy

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