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Financial Services – Fast Tracking Successful Business Women for Top 120 Key Roles

Case Study / By Suzanne Doyle-Morris / 14 December 2022 / consultancy, Finance Sector, Financial Services

Problem: One global financial services firm with over 50,000 employees was struggling to move adequate numbers of successful business women into positions of leadership. There had been multiple leadership changes over a five year period. The organisation had made positive progress around racial diversity, mainly driven through government legislation, but they did not have sufficient […]

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How is recognition in a recession as motivating as money for successful business women?

Behaviour, Books, Building Confidence, Diversity, Harnessing workplace psychology / By Suzanne Doyle-Morris / 8 November 2022 / Career development, Competence, Confidence, Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris, women in stem, womeninbusiness, workplace diversity

It won’t pay the bills and you certainly can’t eat it during a recession. However, recognition can be as motivating as money for many of the women I work with. This can be useful in a recession, as many sectors face an effective pay freeze and relative wage erosion caused by inflation. Plus, while it

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Best self-promotion techniques to gently stretch your comfort zone

Books, Building resilience, Diversity, Getting a promotion, Getting recognition for your work, Self-promotion / By Suzanne Doyle-Morris / 25 October 2022 / Career development, Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris, women in stem, womeninbusiness, workplace diversity

Anxiety, particularly around self-promotion, can stymie a career. It can stem from too frequently being outside your comfort zone. Equally, it can get worse when you always play it safe and get stuck. If left unchallenged for too long, stretching your comfort zone suddenly becomes a very big deal. That’s why self-promotion is much the

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Women in tech: unexpected routes in and why it matters for workplace diversity

Being authentic as a leader, Books, Building Confidence, Diversity, Overcoming gender-based barriers, Overcoming impostor syndrome / By Suzanne Doyle-Morris / 28 September 2022 / Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris, women in stem, womeninbusiness, workplace diversity

How do many women in tech end up in their jobs? Probably not the way non-technologists often assume. Indeed, I’m an ‘accidental technologist’ myself! As someone who founded an online learning games start-up several years ago, I know that many women in tech are exactly like me. While the rate of women studying technology is

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How this leadership training technique breaks negative assumptions

Being authentic as a leader, Building Confidence, Coaching, Developing a strong mindset, Diversity, Getting a promotion, Harnessing workplace psychology, Leadership, Overcoming gender-based barriers, Speaking in Meetings / By Suzanne Doyle-Morris / 13 September 2022 / Coaching, Reflective thinking, women in stem

As a work coach, many of my clients are conscientious and logical. This can mean they are sometimes slow to make rapid-fire remarks in meetings. The leadership training technique of reflective thinking is a great attribute – and particularly vital for women in STEM. They like to think things through, particularly as they are often

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