Michelle King (journalist)
Michelle King | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michelle Penelope King |
| Education | |
| Occupation(s) | Head of the Inclusion Department at Netflix (since December, 2019) |
| Employer | Netflix |
| Known for | women rights advocacy through UN Women’s Integrated Strategy for Gender Innovation & Global Innovation Coalition and publications about gender equality |
| Website | Michelle Penelope King |
Michelle Penelope King is a white South African born journalist, writer, women's rights activist and advocate for gender equality.[1][2][3][4][5] Since December 2019, King has been director of inclusion at Netflix, a department responsible for inclusion and diversity among corporate employees.[6][7][8]
Biography
King attended Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand and graduated with a M.A degree in psychology in 2005. In 2008, King completed a post-graduate diploma in journalism from Auckland University of Technology (AUT).[9][10] King continued her study at Australian Graduate School of Management where she earned her master's degree in business administration in 2013.[11]
King began her journalism career reading the news for George FM and freelance writing for the Independent Financial Review. She then pursued her work as a reporter for Breakfast Business and also worked as a television reporter for New Zealand's national news program and Radio New Zealand.[11][12] She has written for TIME, Huffington Post,[13] Forbes,[14] Bloomberg L.P.,[3][15] and Harvard Business Review[16] on topics related to gender and the advancement of women in organizations.[17][18]
King also took several positions in human resources and gender equality and worked for the United Nations at UN Women in the area of communications, diversity and inclusion.[19][20][21] In 2019 Women Tech Founders, a Chicago-based organization dedicated to advancing women in the tech industry, awarded King with the 2019 Inspiring Innovator Award, for her outstanding achievements in the sector.[22]
During her journalism career and PhD research, King conducted numerous interviews with the CEOs and corporate executives. They explained that the corporations expect their ideal employees to work long hours, be extrovert and not to have any social or family responsibilities. She learnt that most of the corporation work conditions match "masculine, aggressive" types of employees and are more suitable for white heterosexual men than for women or minorities. As a result, she launched "the Fix", a radio podcast illuminating gender inequality in corporate business culture and also explaining how to overcome different obstacles at work.[23] Later, she wrote a book, The Fix Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work, on the same subject.[24][5][25][15] The book won Axiom Business Book Silver Award in the category "Women/Minorities in Business".[26]
King is a member of the advisory board of Girl Up, a Washington D.C.-based foundation established by the United Nations.[27]
She is currently pursuing her PhD in the field of organization and gender at Cranfield School of Management.[22]
Book
- King, M. P. (2020). The fix: Overcome the invisible barriers that are holding women back at work. S.l.: Simon & Schuster.[28]
Selected publications
- Women are better leaders. The pandemic proves it., CNN Business, May 5, 2020[29]
- Julia Gillard, Australia’s First Female Prime Minister On Leadership, Education And The Misogyny Speech, Forbes, September 17, 2019[30]
- Women Hit A Glass Ceiling Early In Their Careers, Here's How To Break It, Forbes, Dec 5, 2018[31]
- Is Office Politics a White Man’s Game? by Michelle King, David Denyer and Emma Parry, Harvard Business Review, September 12, 2018[32]
References
- ^ Inc: Why leaders should focus on fixing their companies before asking women to make changes
- ^ Harvard Business Review: #MeToo’s Legacy
- ^ a b Bloomberg: Know the barriers women and minorities face at work, says Inclusion expert
- ^ Yahoo Finance: Know the Barriers Women and Minorities Face at Work, Says Inclusion Expert
- ^ a b C-Span: After Words with Michelle King
- ^ Fortune: Leaders need to ‘disrupt their denial’ to get diversity and inclusion right
- ^ Economist: Women still face barriers in the workplace
- ^ Politics and Prose: The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work
- ^ Insight AUT: Alumni and Friends 2020
- ^ "Breaking invisible gender barriers through storytelling - Insight Magazine - AUT". insight.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ a b TV New Zealand: Michelle King
- ^ King's Linkedin Profile
- ^ Huffpost: Michelle King
- ^ Forbes for Women: Michelle King
- ^ a b Netflix Director of Inclusion Says Women Should Realize How Incredible They Are
- ^ HBR Podcast: How Workplaces — Not Women — Need to Change to Improve Equality
- ^ Nooklyn: TedX Bushwick Women
- ^ Scoop: Looking Back: What Did The Dalai Lama Leave Us?
- ^ Fortune: Leaders need to ‘disrupt their denial’ to get diversity and inclusion right
- ^ Cheddar: Invisible Barriers Women Face at Work
- ^ Business Insider: Gender expert — and director of inclusion at Netflix — says office politics work only for men. To fix things, let's all start 'spending our privilege' in smarter ways
- ^ a b Cranfield University
- ^ Apple Podcast Preview: The Fix with Michelle King
- ^ Union Journal City News: Not getting ahead at work? It’s not YOU – It’s men!
- ^ Ideas. Ted.com: One invisible barrier holding back women at work: the conformity bind
- ^ Axiom Business Book Awards: AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2020 RESULTS
- ^ Girl Up: Meet our squad
- ^ King, Michelle P (2020). The fix: overcome the invisible barriers that are holding women back at work. S.l.: SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD. ISBN 978-1-4711-9304-0. OCLC 1152861634.
- ^ "Women are better leaders. The pandemic proves it". CNN.
- ^ Forbes: Julia Gillard, Australia’s First Female Prime Minister On Leadership, Education And The Misogyny Speech (September 17, 2019)
- ^ Forbes: Women Hit A Glass Ceiling Early In Their Careers, Here's How To Break It (Dec 5, 2018)
- ^ HBR: Is Office Politics a White Man’s Game?