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Impostor syndrome isn’t cured with BS.

You, no doubt, like to do a bit of ‘due diligence’ when facing a challenge. This is particularly true when your impostor syndrome rears its head. In my due diligence to prepare for a short interview with Kaye Adams on BBC Radio Scotland, I searched beyond the attention-grabbing headline of ‘Bluffing is a Sign you are […]

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What does success smell like in male-dominated sectors? Oxytocin

Does success have a scent – particularly in fields where testosterone is the main hormone? For women in male-dominated sectors, this is vital as it seems like the world has woken up to the power of our pheromones and oxytocin in particular. You may know the chemical peaks after sex and when mothers bond during breastfeeding with

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How jokes with a misogynistic meaning can be challenged

A distraught client of mine recently challenged a meme with a racist and misogynistic meaning sent by a peer in a private WhatsApp group. They were all very senior white male leaders of his organisation, the ’status quo’ as I call them in ’The Con Job: Getting Ahead for Competence in a World Obsessed with

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Recovering from Interruptions at work

You likely heard about how well Yorshiro Mori, who recently departed the Japanese Olympic Committee, came across when he voiced his ‘concerns’ about female representation in high profile meetings by lamenting ‘When you increase the number of female executive members, if their speaking time isn’t restricted to a certain extent, they have difficulty finishing, which is annoying.” Galling stuff

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International Women’s Day -how to keep momentum afterwards

International Women’s Day has come and gone, and its passage highlights a ridiculous assumption: Let’s honour women and all they’ve given us during a single day of the year! This is particularly ridiculous once you pair it with the ever increasing data about how much harder Covid has hit women, particularly Brown and Black women,

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