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Leadership Influence: Strategies for Women in STEM

Leadership influence: a critical skill for women in STEM The ability to influence others is an important leadership skill. Leadership influence is therefore critical for women in STEM to master…

Embracing the real work, discarding the fake. How female leaders can invest in the work that will achieve their leadership goals.

I recently listened to an interview between productivity expert Grace Marshall and Renessa Boley Layne (founder of Creating Your Perfect Work) on the psychology of being busy. Among other things, Grace…

Emotional Resilience: A Key Factor in Leadership Success

Emotional resilience is an important contributor to broader resilience and wellbeing. It is also a key factor in leadership success. To understand why, let’s begin by exploring resilience. Resilience is…

Understanding STEM leadership barriers for women

Women in STEM professions are talented, committed, and passionate about their chosen professions. Women increase the diversity of thought, talent and experience in STEM industries, and boost innovation and creativity.…

Overcoming Barriers to Women’s Participation in Strategic Decision-Making

In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg popularized the idea that women needed to ‘lean in’ to leadership roles. However, research suggests that women may be pushed out rather than opting out of leadership and that women…

Amplify your power to maximise your influence

When was the last time you stopped to consider your power and how you are using it to maximise your influence?

Navigating Emotional Conversations in the Workplace

Emotions permeate everything we do, including in the workplace. It’s great to see conversations in the workplace that are driven by passion, commitment, belief, and even a little frustration at…

How Emotions Influence Your Decisions

I was recently offered the opportunity to rent a co-worker’s beach house for a year while she was overseas. I had been wanting a beach house for the past few…

How Connected Are You?

Research indicates that the presence of women in leadership positions as role models, and the opportunity to network with female leaders, shapes a woman’s view of leadership in the workplace...

Confidence: A Key Influencer for Female Leaders

Confidence is one of the key elements that influence a woman’s ability to lead. This was a key learning from a 2015 KPMG Women’s Leadership Study: Moving Women Forward into Leadership…

5 Sure-Fire Ways to Motivate Your Team

Motivation is one of the key factors when it comes to having a productive team that are committed and prepared to stick around for the long haul. Here are 5…

10 Questions You Should Be Asking Yourself Regularly

All leaders experience ups and downs in their leadership practice: living their values, inspiring their teams, making the right decisions, modelling their best actions and reaching their goals. How are…

8 Qualities Female Leadership & Cheerleading Have in Common

I know you’re thinking ‘what!?’. In no way, shape or form does female leadership sharing anything in common with cheerleading! Right? Wrong. Cheerleading is a sport of skill, determination, strength,…

Why Empathy is Such a Critical Leadership Skill

Early on in my leadership journey I had a challenging staff member I just couldn’t connect with; extremely good at their job, inspiring and motivating to those they worked with,…