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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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 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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No matter the year, choosing to challenge will always be a key goal for any International Women’s Day and beyond. If there’s one thing the pandemic taught us, it’s that we have to challenge antiquated systems now more than ever. As we think about how we want to live now, we have to challenge convention. In discussion
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While most women in STEM say they want advice, what they most often want is simply more support from those around them. They are eager to want to avoid micromanaging, as it simply takes too much time. Most of my coaching clients, after several sessions, admit to me they’ve used coaching techniques they’ve learned in
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