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Transformational Product Offerings from Linkage, a SHRM Company  

SHRM now offers the Linkage Signature Solutions set of leadership development tools focused on advancing women and accelerating inclusive leadership to propel organizations across industries to thrive.

For more than 35 years, Linkage Signature Solutions have been changing the face of leadership by impacting organizational effectiveness and equity. More than 1 million leaders have used Linkage’s unique datasets, insights and innovative products to create comprehensive solutions, empowering top organizations to solve their most pressing talent challenges.

Featured Products

The Redesigning Inclusion solution empowers organizations to engage their leaders and their broader workforce in inclusion programming in ways that are actionable and placed within the current context of organizational challenges. Gain access to a research-backed framework that creates and supports a culture of inclusion where all employees can thrive.

The Advancing Women Leaders™ solution is a practical framework that enables organizations to attract, retain, develop and advance women leaders at all levels. Explore a transformational framework tailored to the experiences of women, informed by the latest research on women in the workplace, which has identified the common hurdles to advancement in the workplace—and the leadership competencies needed to overcome them.

The Accelerating Purposeful Leadership solution equips leaders to be more inclusive, more purposeful and ultimately more effective in how they lead. Discover a framework informed by the latest research on leadership, which has identified the five areas leaders must focus on to become truly effective and inclusive.

Cutting-Edge Enterprise Solutions

Unlock your organization's full potential with human-centric, customizable solutions.

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Tamla Oates

Tamla Oates-Forney, CEO of Linkage, a SHRM Company

With decades of executive and human resources experience, Oates-Forney brings a wealth of knowledge and leadership to her role as CEO of Linkage, a SHRM Company. She has served as CHRO of USAA and Waste Management, in addition to her outstanding career at General Electric, where she received the GE Chairman Award. She has been recognized numerous times for her accomplishments, including being named one of the Top 30 Influential Women of Houston, the Most Influential Black Corporate Directors, and the Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America.

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Women in Leadership Institute

Leading organizations rely on the Women in Leadership Institute to equip their women leaders with actionable strategies to scale the common hurdles to advancement in the workplace. Join the ranks of organizations such as Parexel, Oracle, Kraft Heinz and Dentsply Sirona through group registration and partnership at the Women in Leadership Institute.