We help organizations grow by transforming their most significant barrier to growth, their talent.
AUDREY MCGUCKIN • SPEAKER • AUTHOR • CEO
AUDREY MCGUCKIN
AUTHOR, CEO-MCGUCKIN GROUP + WOTW
Audrey McGuckin facilitates and enables “aha moments” that help leaders transform their organizations and deliver outstanding business results. In 2021, McGuckin founded Women On Their Way (WOTW) to provide a new method for addressing organizational general inequality and creating lasting change.
Audrey has over three decades of experience cultivating talent, reimagining leadership, and transforming culture. As CEO of McGuckin Group, she has partnered with Fortune 100 organizations across 52 countries to design and deliver long-term talent planning processes. Her work ensures people, processes, and cultures align with business strategies.
Audrey spent over ten years as the Chief Talent Officer for Jabil, a $27 billion company. She has led over ten CEO Succession transitions, as well as DEI strategy work that resulted in double-digit growth for minority representation. She spent five years collaborating with Harvard Business School designing cutting-edge leadership programs for executives.
Clients say she has a straightforward and frank approach, and they know they’ll always get clear recommendations and solutions that are practical, executable, and innovative. Being a great leader in today’s world is harder than ever, and Audrey’s mission in life is to empower companies to make the right decisions and put the best talent frameworks in place to assure their team’s success. Audrey currently serves as Founder and CEO of McGuckin Group and WOTW, and she has served as the program director for The Conference Board. She is a regular guest on Bloom TV, leading industry webinars, podcasts, as well as a featured speaker.
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Audrey’s unique background enables her to help clients realize their strategic human capital ambitions in a practical, ‘no nonsense’ way
01. We help you gain blistering clarity on your business strategy.
Effectively align your team with your strategy
Vision leak strikes when leaders assume their team is aligned on a business strategy that seems crystal clear to them; yet, according to Harvard Business Review, 95% of employees on average don’t understand their company’s strategy. We explore practical strategies and proven techniques to ensure every member of your team is working in harmony towards shared goals…so that you can win together.
Must Win Battles for your business strategy
Checking the “I have a strategy”, or “I know our strategy” box isn’t enough anymore. Join us to learn the three MUST WIN battles for success! If you want to differentiate yourself in the market and if you want to see double digit growth year over year, you have to ensure you execute on your strategy.
02. We help you design your talent strategy
Unlock the rewards of a strategic approach to talent
Business strategy and talent strategy are often not integrated. Organizations typically start with business strategy and just add on talent strategy or it sits in isolation. Yet,there are sizable, tangible returns when they are developed hand in hand.
Outpace Your Competition
Talent is consistently reported as leaders’ #1 concern, yet only 5% of CEOs are satisfied with their talent. Only 39% of companies allocate talent well; but those who do are 1.4 times more likely to outperform competition. We’ll show you what it takes to join the elite few and outpace your competition.
03. We help you assess and manage your leadership bench strength
Fortify your talent pipeline
Succession planning is not a one-size-fits-all or a one-time event. Whether you are executing a carefully developed succession plan or reacting to a sudden leadership departure, you’ve learned that a strong pipeline of tuned in and capable people is the number one way to protect your organization. We’ll show you how to fortify your talent pipeline.
Empowering Growth through talent
For leaders, it’s never been more critical to create an agile and efficient workforce that sets you up for success now and in the future. At the same time, it’s never been harder to retain and engage teams – let us share the expert techniques to achieve your goals for growth by leveraging your greatest asset: your people.
04. We help you develop incredible leaders
Leading with Authenticity, Humility and Heart
A study by the Berkeley Haas School suggests that this shortage of authentic leaders is due to overconfidence and feelings of infallibility that often accompany power. Your people deserve to feel connected and people connect to authenticity, yet this takes unique courage as a leader. Leaders join us as we share how to do this deeply personal work and how you bring others along on the journey.
Unlocking Trust Through Building Psycological Safety
Compared with people at low-trust companies, people at high-trust companies report: 74% less stress, 106% more energy at work, 50% higher productivity, 13% fewer sick days, 76% more engagement, 29% more satisfaction with their lives, 40% less burnout (Harvard Business Review, February 2024). If it’s so important, how do you do this important work? Join us as we share the 5 keys to building trust and psychological safety with your teams
05. We help you optimize team effectiveness
Leading with Empathy: starting with “who” and not “what”
Explore the transformative power of empathetic leadership in fostering trust, collaboration, and innovation, and learn practical strategies for prioritizing the human element to unlock your team’s full potential. Discover how focusing on the ‘who’ rather than the ‘what’ can exponentially enhance your team’s effectiveness
Impactful Team Offsites
While getting your teams together can be helpful in reconnecting and getting topics on the table that need discussion, rarely do those meetings have a long-term effect on the course of your business and get to the outcomes you need. And yet, when they are successful, off-site strategy discussions can lead to aligned and stronger teams who have a commitment to implementation and the clarity they need to execute. Together we’ll explore how important the work before the meeting can often be more important than the work at the meeting.
06. We help you accelerate women leaders
Develop your high impact, authentic brand
Discover the keys to unlocking your authentic leadership brand! Learn how to effectively communicate your actions, identity, principles, and values to build a powerful and genuine brand. Gain insights into the biggest pitfalls to avoid and uncover the secrets to crafting an authentic and compelling brand that resonates with your audience
Building and Leveraging Your Network
The world is abundant, and you can partake in that abundance. Ask for what you need, and assume that the answer will be yes. When you build and leverage your network, you can achieve what you want and help others’ dreams come true as well.
Clients
MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
“Audrey has the unique ability to shine a torch to guide you on your journey.”
CY LOW, VP Of Operations Jabil, Shanghai , China
“Audrey led our business as it grew from $82 million to $22 billion to bring the human aspect to our growth plans. In navigating all of this change, Audrey was always committed to being human-centered and helping our leaders through these significant transitions.”
MARK MONDELLO, CEO Jabil, St Petersburg Florida
“We couldn’t have accomplished our goals without Audrey and her team, their vision, passion and commitment to success. The McGuckin Group was very instrumental in planning, assessing, training and coaching the entire team globally and locally, during the most needed transformation.”
ERICH HOCH, EVP, Transformation, Hamburg, Germany
Clients
MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
“Audrey has the unique ability to shine a torch to guide you on your journey.”
CY LOW, VP Of Operations Jabil, Shanghai , China
“Audrey led our business as it grew from $82 million to $22 billion to bring the human aspect to our growth plans. In navigating all of this change, Audrey was always committed to being human-centered and helping our leaders through these significant transitions.”
MARK MONDELLO, CEO Jabil, St Petersburg Florida
“We couldn’t have accomplished our goals without Audrey and her team, their vision, passion and commitment to success. The McGuckin Group was very instrumental in planning, assessing, training and coaching the entire team globally and locally, during the most needed transformation.”
ERICH HOCH, EVP, Transformation, Hamburg, Germany
RECLAIMING THE FIRE IN YOUR BELLY
By Audrey McGuckin
Being a great female leader is harder than ever. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three million women left the U.S. workforce. Women face unique career challenges that include lacking confidence, playing small, working harder for less pay, and failing to strategize. Combined with social pressures, systemic issues, and family life, these hurdles are causing higher rates of burnout than ever before.
Reclaiming the Fire in Your Belly is a guide to strategically rekindle a powerful sense of ambition and strong determination to succeed. McGuckin’s unique approach for women leaders:
- reveals the biggest roadblock holding women back
- illuminates and eliminates old ideas
- helps uncover the landmines that often hamper career progression
- identifies the best path forward
By distilling thirty years’ worth of consulting wisdom, corporate experience, and practical knowledge, McGuckin provides readers with clear recommendations, actionable and strategic advice to maximize career momentum, and solutions that are tangible, executable, and innovative.
