Why Work? Why 50:50? … It’s Good For Your Kids

Often mornings before work are a pressure point, where the tensions between home and work are front and centre. On those morning when we rush to get ourselves presentable and our kids ready and delivered to childcare or school our best laid plans can get derailed; kids are sick, there are no clean socks, hairContinueContinue reading “Why Work? Why 50:50? … It’s Good For Your Kids”

The ‘Best’ Leadership Books are Written By…?

You may have already noticed that relatively few books on leadership are written by women. And not just books for women but leadership books for everyone written by women. I was searching Blinkist (a great app which provides bite-sized summaries in text or in audio of over 2000 non-fiction books and used by over 6ContinueContinue reading “The ‘Best’ Leadership Books are Written By…?”

Fantastic Podcasts for Women, Work, and Leadership

One of the keys to sustaining ourselves while navigating through our days carrying the added baggage of gender bias at work and in our wider lives, is to get active support from our women friends and peers and wider village. My ‘Village’ includes diverse groups of friends, family members, other school-parents, professional bodies, networks, andContinueContinue reading “Fantastic Podcasts for Women, Work, and Leadership”

How Power Can Operate in a Workplace

I was reading the Power Threat Meaning Framework published the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology and authored by Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle and others the other day. Find it here if you’re interested. I was struck by how the examination of power relationships in the Framework’s perspective of emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled orContinueContinue reading “How Power Can Operate in a Workplace”