Executive Leadership Strategies

Eight ways organisations can stop underestimating women, and help them to fit and feel valued

Coaching, Inclusion, Leadership, Performance

If women are more likely to be under-estimated why would they think they are frauds? This question continues to puzzle me. Imposter syndrome continues despite the reality that in many organisations women’s talents and skills are more likely to be under, rather than...

What do organisations need to do to take more responsibility for burnout

Coaching, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Performance

Between being engaged and feeling vital, and feeling burnt-out, there’s a lot that can be done. But too much stress continues to beset high achievers and that affects many organisations. One of the factors that commonly tips workers into burnout is a sense of...

We are not invincible after all

Gender diversity, Inclusion

Helen Reddy’s inspiring feminist anthem ‘I am woman’ was a clarion call to many women; she was a role model of strength and courage. It is however insupportable that we should think that feeling invincible is enough. There’s no shortage of...

What ‘Price’ inequality? What should we make of opposition to equality?

Gender diversity, Unconscious bias

How should we understand the spate of recent derogatory comments by high profile figures such as Steve Price and Eddie Maguire about women, and Sonia Kruger and Pauline Hansen with their anti-Muslim comments? How do we understand this increasingly public declamation...

A strategy to achieve the equal social, civic and economic participation of women

Gender diversity, Leadership, Unconscious bias

SUBMISSION TO VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT GENDER EQUALITY STRATEGY: HAVE YOUR SAY MARCH 2016 Last week I submitted the following suggestions in response to its invitation to have a say about a Victorian Gender Equality Strategy. What a great opportunity to accelerate the...