Career acceleration, Culture, Gender diversity, Leadership, Performance
As I looked around the boardroom table, I noticed once again the lack of diversity in the leaders assembled. It isn’t that those present are not talented: they are. It’s not that they’re not well-intentioned: they are. It’s just that affinity bias remains...
Career acceleration, Coaching, Leadership
Lynda Grattan says ‘There’s a ‘silver lining’ to the pandemic: the opportunity to make work lives more purposeful, productive, agile, and flexible.’ My silver lining, as we’ve lurched from one version of lockdown to the next here in Melbourne, has been my...
Career acceleration, Gender diversity, Inclusion, Unconscious bias
When the revelations of #metoo caused a storm in Hollywood, and raised the lid on the mind-numbing extent of sexual harassment women experience at work, I caught myself thinking how lucky I was. At no time during my career had I been forced to have sex in return for...
Career acceleration, Gender diversity, Inclusion, Motivation, Unconscious bias
It’s a bit of a Catch-22. To be prepared to be visible, to feel authentic and to advance your career is so much easier when you can follow women who’ve already blazed the trail. It’s so much easier to follow a path that someone has created than to forge your own. And...
Career acceleration, Gender diversity, Leadership
It was Madeleine Albright who used the powerfully galvanising phrase “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” She was ostensibly supporting Hillary Clinton’s US presidential candidacy. However, what she did was to reinforce the Queen Bee...