Dr. David Smith, PhD, a Professor of Practice and Co-Director of the Gender & Work Initiative in the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School joins Enterprise Radio. Dr. Smith is the co-author of Fair Share: How Men and Women Can Create a More Equitable Workplace Together (2026).
This episode of Enterprise Radio is in association with the Author Channel.
Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Dr. David Smith discuss the following:
- Although interpersonal and public ally-ship are essential, why are structural ally-ship and inclusive leadership critical to finally realizing a gender-fair society and workplace?
- In your new book, you’ve written that “the workplace is broken.” Can you talk about why you say this and what we’ve gotten wrong?
- How is gender collaboration at work deeply connected to equity and fairness at home?
- When men lean into their caregiving roles, take parental leave, use flex-work benefits, and talk openly about their obligations outside the office, how does this reduce the stigma associated with caregiving—for everyone?
- You emphasize routine measurement of gender-fair progress and demanding (high-quality) data. What should gender-fair organizations be assessing?
David Smith, PhD, is a Professor of Practice and Co-Director of the Gender & Work Initiative in the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. A former Navy pilot, David led diverse organizations of women and men, culminating in command of a squadron in combat and flew more than 3,000 hours over 30 years, including combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As a sociologist, he focuses his research in gender, work, and family issues, including allyship, inclusive leadership, mental load, gender bias in performance evaluations, and dual career families.
David is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters—many on the topic of gender and the workplace—and 3 books in the area of gender in the workplace. These books include
Fair Share: How Men and Women Can Create a More Equitable Workplace Together (June 2026 with Brad Johnson), Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace (October 2020 with Brad Johnson) and Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women (September 2016 with Brad Johnson).
David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and his work has also been featured in ABC News – Good Morning America, Chief, Fast Company, Female Quotient, Financial Times, Forbes, Globe and Mail, Inc.,
Kiplinger, Los Angeles Times, Management Today, MarketWatch, McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.Org, MedPage Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Reuters, Rutgers Business Review, SHRM, theSkimm, and The Wall Street Journal, He speaks around the globe on the topics of allyship, leadership and gender and workplace relationships.
Website: workplaceallies.com
Book: davidgsmithphd.com/thebook
Social Media Links:
Instagram: instagram.com/davidgsmithphd
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/davidgsmithphd
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