HBR at 100

— 2018 —

CHAPTER THREE

Lead with Authenticity

An interview with Tina Opie by Amy Bernstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, and Nicole Torres

Authenticity is what it feels like when you can bring your whole self to work—when your behavior matches your intentions. But there’s a challenge for women who want to be authentic at work. They are daughters, mothers, sisters, and bosses, and all these different roles can be tough to reconcile. So while authentic leadership is often viewed as geared toward a single norm, women live in a multipolar world. How can they be true to themselves when there are so many competing selves?

Tina Opie is an associate professor at Babson College. She sat down with Women at Work cohosts Amy Bernstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, ...