Lynne Segall, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, LIVE from the 2024 GNFCC BOLD Women’s Leadership Summit (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 822)
In this live remote interview, host John Ray speaks with Lynne Segall, an associate professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, at the 2024 GNFCC BOLD Women’s Leadership Summit. Lynne discusses the importance of asking the right questions in both professional and personal contexts. She elaborates on how questions can drive problem-solving and effective communication. Lynne shares insights from her keynote on the structured approach to problem solving she teaches her MBA students, highlighting the different types of questions and their strategic use. The conversation also touches on the specific challenges women face in asking questions and how to overcome them.
This interview was originally broadcast live from the 2024 GNFCC BOLD Women’s Leadership Summit held at The Commons at Phase in Alpharetta, Georgia.
John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced by the North Fulton affiliate of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.
Lynne Segall, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School
Lynne Segall is an Associate Professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in the Practice of Organization & Management. Lynne also serves as Associate Dean, Management Practice Initiatives.
Lynne joined Goizueta after spending 15 years with Accenture, where she served as Director of Talent and Organization Offering Development. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and an MBA from Goizueta in 1999.
Emory University’s Goizueta Business School
The goal of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School is to make a positive impact on society by developing future leaders through their suite of undergraduate, MBA, and PhD degree programs and their tailored non-degree courses, and by creating and disseminating impactful knowledge and insights.
Business is a vehicle capable of delivering meaningful, lasting impact to society. Embracing this view unlocks their collective ability to innovate in the most important ways on the most pressing topics. For more than 100 years, Goizueta Business School has been a training ground for principled leaders and a laboratory for powerful insights. Their history includes an ethos of ethical business and empowers us all to strive for lifelong progress. By navigating the complex interdependency of business and society, we seek to convene the brightest minds to solve the biggest problems with integrity, ingenuity, and grit.
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Topics Discussed in this Episode
00:00 Welcome to the GNFCC BOLD 2024 Women’s Leadership Summit
00:55 Introduction to Lynne Segall and Her Work
02:55 The Power of Questions in Professional Settings
05:49 Types of Questions and Their Impact
09:08 Challenges Women Face in Asking Questions
10:32 Conclusion and How to Connect with Lynne Segall
2024 GNFCC BOLD Women’s Leadership Summit
The 2024 GNFCC BOLD Women’s Leadership Summit was held on October 30, 2024, at The Commons at Phase in Alpharetta, Georgia.
The mission of BOLD—Businesswomen Organizing for Leadership and Development—is to connect businesswomen to build outstanding networks and spheres of influence, to collaborate with each other and with partner organizations to develop their businesses, and to celebrate and recognize the women of North Fulton.
About North Fulton Business Radio and host John Ray
With over 800 shows and having featured over 1,200 guests, North Fulton Business Radio is the longest-running podcast in the North Fulton area, covering business in our community like no one else. We are the undisputed “Voice of Business” in North Fulton!
The show welcomes a wide variety of business, non-profit, and community leaders to get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, their community, and their profession. There’s no discrimination based on company size, and there’s never any “pay to play.” North Fulton Business Radio supports and celebrates business by sharing positive business stories that traditional media ignore. Some media leans left. Some media leans right. We lean business.
John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, and many others.
The studio address is 275 South Main Street, Alpharetta, GA 30009.
John Ray also operates his own business advisory practice. John’s services include advising solopreneurs and small professional services firms on their value, their positioning and business development, and their pricing. His clients are professionals who are selling their expertise, such as consultants, coaches, attorneys, CPAs, accountants and bookkeepers, marketing professionals, and other professional services practitioners.
John is the national bestselling author of The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices.
