What I highlight in my talks
I’m known for the work I do in the area of gender equity. In my talks I highlight what needs to change to ensure there are more women in senior decision-making roles. My experiences as an executive coach of both men and women leaders and being the only woman NED on an all-male board has helped me to see the issue of gender from a number of different perspectives. In my coaching and writing I explore this very nuanced subject always with an eye on what’s needed to fix the system but not the women.
Speaking on Gender Equity
I hope to offer a fresh take, advocating different ways for achieving change such as a shift to inclusive leadership and a re-evaluation of work culture, especially its impact during the demanding mid-career phase. This phase often sees work pressures clashing with increased home responsibilities, threatening derailment off the leadership track.
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In 1994, I founded ECC (Yes we all still look like this now)
Starting out with the Burton Group, my previous employer where I had been Head of Group Management Development, we quickly expanded across multiple industry sectors introducing the idea of one to one coaching well before it was mainstream. Initially coaching predominantly men we soon realised that the leak in the pipeline was largely when women became mothers. This led us to launch Parental Transition Coaching making us pioneers of this much-needed coaching service. To date we have coached well over 20,000 women and men at this key transition giving us real in-depth expertise.
In 2022, I wrote a book...
As I became fascinated by women’s career journeys I felt the urge to capture what I’d learned in a book. Coaching Women, Changing the System Not the Person gave me the opportunity to bolster my hands-on coaching experience with academic research. What I found was that there were significant differences in coaching men and women and my talks aim to draw attention to these differences. In essence coaching women is more complex as they are operating in a system that has unseen and unintended barriers, it’s like playing with two hands of cards while men simply need to attend to one hand.
In my talks I raise awareness about the unseen barriers and I give advice on how to navigate them as well as how to eliminate them.
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