Charlene Li
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    Mentor

    SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity)

    - Present 5 years 11 months

    Education

    I mentor a junior attending a San Francisco public high school who will be the first in her family to attend college.

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    Elected Board Member, Harvard Alumni Association

    Harvard University

    - 2 years 10 months

    Education

    Elected to the Alumni Association Board of Directors by Harvard University alumni. Focused on the digital engagement of alumni, working closely with the Chief Digital Officer of Harvard University. Also worked on digital engagement with the Board of Overseers.

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    Advisory Board Member

    The Poynter Institute

    - 3 years 1 month

    Served on the advisory board for The Poynter Institute. Focused on how Poynter should adjust its activities with the digitization of journalism.

    The Poynter Institute is a global leader in journalism. It is the world’s leading instructor, innovator, convener and resource for anyone who aspires to engage and inform citizens in 21st Century democracies.

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    Global Advisory Council Member

    World Economic Forum

    - 3 years 1 month

    Member of the New Models of Leadership Global Advisory Council, which developed leadership frameworks and priorities for the WEF.

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  • Generative AI and Workplace Transformation

    LinkedIn Learning

    By now, most forward thinking organizations are aware of generative AI, but many are grappling with their own plan of how to think about and deploy gen AI in the way that makes sense. In this course, thought leader Charlene Li offers key insights on what some are calling the biggest change transformation in the knowledge worker era. Drawing from her own work with first movers and leaders across industries, Charlene dives into some of the key issues to consider, including: the impact on the work…

    By now, most forward thinking organizations are aware of generative AI, but many are grappling with their own plan of how to think about and deploy gen AI in the way that makes sense. In this course, thought leader Charlene Li offers key insights on what some are calling the biggest change transformation in the knowledge worker era. Drawing from her own work with first movers and leaders across industries, Charlene dives into some of the key issues to consider, including: the impact on the work force and work force planning; job roles will go away, transform, or not be impacted; and emerging skill sets organizations will need to train for. She also presents her insights on how employees can still learn and thrive amidst the uncertainty. Charlene helps companies and their workers think through an AI first strategy and make sense of a plan to evolve successfully in an AI-powered world.

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  • The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail

    To be competitive, it’s no longer enough to be innovative – you must have a strategy for disruptive growth, a plan to identify and seize an opportunity no one else has the audacity or confidence to reach for. Disruptors don’t just blow things up – they also create and build things that result in huge, positive change. This book will help you build your own disruption mindset.

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  • The Engaged Leader

    Wharton Digital Press

    Winner of a 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award and a 2016 Small Business Book Award

    “This 100-page business and career book is among the first I’ve seen that clearly defines the nuts and bolts of leadership in The Digital Age.”
    —Joyce Lain Kennedy, The Chicago Tribune

    Technology has revolutionized the very idea and nature of relationships between leaders and their followers. Yet, many leaders remain stuck at arm’s-length from those they lead and serve, relying on specialized…

    Winner of a 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award and a 2016 Small Business Book Award

    “This 100-page business and career book is among the first I’ve seen that clearly defines the nuts and bolts of leadership in The Digital Age.”
    —Joyce Lain Kennedy, The Chicago Tribune

    Technology has revolutionized the very idea and nature of relationships between leaders and their followers. Yet, many leaders remain stuck at arm’s-length from those they lead and serve, relying on specialized teams to interact with customers, their direct reports to keep tabs on how employees are doing, and on the digital natives in their organization to stay abreast of new technologies.

    Now, in The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation, Li helps leaders adapt to the demands and opportunities of digital leadership. To be a true digital leader requires a metamorphosis: you must connect directly by listening, sharing, and engaging using digital technologies. This metamorphosis is not easy, comfortable, or painless—if your palms aren’t sweaty or your stomach isn’t churning, then you probably aren’t really practicing digital leadership.

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  • Social Business Governance: A Framework to Execute Social Business Strategy

    Altimeter Group

    Achieving momentum for a social business strategy for many organizations is challenging enough, but execution is often fraught with unanswered questions: Who owns social? How are key decisions made? How do we organize to execute social? Left unanswered, organizations face significant risks, including threats to brand health as the result of inappropriate or disjoint social practices. Hidden between great strategic ideas and business results lies the messy mechanics of governance, which…

    Achieving momentum for a social business strategy for many organizations is challenging enough, but execution is often fraught with unanswered questions: Who owns social? How are key decisions made? How do we organize to execute social? Left unanswered, organizations face significant risks, including threats to brand health as the result of inappropriate or disjoint social practices. Hidden between great strategic ideas and business results lies the messy mechanics of governance, which according to our research only 16% of organizations feel is well understood and deployed. Strategy and governance are natural partners: Strategy lays the groundwork for new opportunities while governance ensures safe execution, managing the risk of change. In this report, we define a social business governance system of 4 P’s: people, policies, processes, and practices. We use that framework to provide a maturity model to assess where you are, and we include best practices, policy templates, and a decision-making matrix that you can use to define Social Business Governance (SBG) that will help you both achieve the potential of your strategy
    and manage risk.

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  • Social Media Education for Employees

    Altimeter Group

    Research report focused on social business education, which includes a framework to structure education programs based on four unique roles, learning objectives and a 10-point checklist of requirements for success.

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  • Open Leadership

    Jossey Bass

    New York Times Bestseller. An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be "open" while maintaining control.

    "Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic" are the current leadership mantras-but companies often push back. Business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness-leaders do not know how to be open and be in control. This must-have resource will help the modern leader understand how to lead in the new open world-where blogging…

    New York Times Bestseller. An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be "open" while maintaining control.

    "Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic" are the current leadership mantras-but companies often push back. Business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness-leaders do not know how to be open and be in control. This must-have resource will help the modern leader understand how to lead in the new open world-where blogging, twittering, facebooking, and digging are becoming the norm. the author lays out the steps that leaders must take to transform their organizations and themselves into being "open" -and exactly what that will mean.

    - Shows how to use social media to become an open organization
    - Offers basic advice for leaders who are adapting to the new era of openness in the marketplace

    The author Charlene Li is one of the foremost experts on social media and technologies.

    In easy-to-understand language, this book will help leaders orient themselves to social networking and other technological advances.

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  • Groundswell

    Harvard Business Press

    Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into your broader marketing efforts? It's an unstoppable groundswell that affects every industry -- yet it's still utterly foreign to most companies running things now.

    When consumers you've never met are rating your company's products in…

    Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into your broader marketing efforts? It's an unstoppable groundswell that affects every industry -- yet it's still utterly foreign to most companies running things now.

    When consumers you've never met are rating your company's products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity.

    In this updated and expanded edition of Groundswell, featuring an all new introduction and chapters on Twitter and social media integration, you'll learn to:

    · Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge

    · Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas

    · Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy

    · Build social technologies into your business

    Groundswell is required reading for executives seeking to protect and strengthen their company's public image.

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Honors & Awards

  • 2016 Small Business Book Award

    Small Business Book Awards

    The 2016 Small Business Book Awards had 178 nominations across our eight categories and nearly 11,000 votes with thousands of Facebook comments from fans across the spectrum of small business book readers and supporters of the nominees.

  • 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award for "The Engaged Leader

    Independent Book Publisher Awards

    “The ‘IPPY’ Awards, launched in 1996, are designed to bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers. Established as the first awards program open exclusively to independents, over 3,000 ‘IPPYs’ have been awarded to authors and publishers around the world.”

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