Sally Helgesen was the first writer to focus on what women have to contribute to organizations rather than how they need to change and adapt. Her bestselling book, The Female Advantage, widely hailed as "the classic work" on women's leadership styles, is used in companies, training seminars, and college classes around the world.

She speaks before, coaches, and consults with organizations interested in attracting, retaining, and developing terrific women.

She is the author of four other books, including The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time. In 2001, she published Thriving in 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work, which shows how people at every level can achieve satisfaction and balance in today's intense and demanding workplace.

Sally has delivered seminars, keynotes, and workshops at hundreds of the world's leading corporations, partnership firms, universities and non-profits. She has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at Smith College and been Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University and the Culinary Institute of America. She has consulted for several UN Agencies about building effective grassroots and women's organizations in the developing world. Articles about her work have been featured in Fortune, Business Week, and Fast Company, and she has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs.

She has also been nominated as one of the Ten Top Thinkers of the World and to the advisory board of the Best Practices Institute, founded by Louis Carter.

Sally is a member of The Learning Network and The New York Women's Forum. She lives in an old farmhouse in rural Chatham, New York, with her husband, the painter Bart Gulley.

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