Executive Presence Reading List

Articles, books and research reports about Sponsorship and Executive Presence are available on the websites of the Center for Talent Innovation and Harvard Business Review.

Among them are:

• Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career By Sylvia Ann Hewlett
• Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit AND Success By Sylvia Ann Hewlett
• Sponsor Effect 2.0: Road Maps for Sponsors and Protégés By Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Melinda Marshall and Laura Sherbin, with Barbara Adachi
• Cracking the Code: Executive Presence and Multicultural Professionals By Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Noni Allwood, Karen Sumberg and Sandra Scharf, with Christina Fargnoli

Available at www.talentinnovation.org/Research-and-Insights/

• The Relationship You Need to Get Right (HBR, Oct. 2011 edition) By Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Melinda Marshall, Laura Sherbin
• The Real Benefit of Finding a Sponsor (HBR, Jan. 25, 2011) By Sylvia Ann Hewlett
• The Sponsor Effect: Breaking Through the Last Glass Ceiling (HBR, Jan. 12. 2011) By Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Kerrie Peraino, Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg

Available at hbr.org