I recently spoke with a STEM coaching client, Zadie, who was leaving her employer. Her mistake? ‘Not paying attention to red flags before, and then not being willing to face them when they appeared later! If only I had learned all this at 30, I would have been so much better off!’ I thought I’d share […]
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I had a final session with a coaching client who had decided to leave her STEM employer. Her reasons exposed the other side of executive coaching – that some of the time, when coaching has been successful in building confidence, the client decides to leave their job. They opt out of an environment they find
Sarah, an executive coaching client from a life sciences company, started one of her final sessions with me saying that ‘the past year had been the hardest in her life.’ It certainly was not a year anyone would envy; she’d taken on her biggest management role to date and had nursed and then experienced the
At the halfway point of our Peak Resilience Accelerator programme, I asked the participants, all women in STEM, when they had experienced the evidence that their inner critic or ‘judge’ had been wrong? The evidence was key for women in STEM because we often believe that our inner judge, our self-limiting beliefs, are completely true. However, these
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In the Peak Resilience Accelerator workshop, we discuss which of the tools we are learning work particularly well for the participants. These group discussions are vital for the women leaders who attend; hearing what’s working for others can help them triangulate their findings and discover new ways they could use these skills. It’s a big
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