Lessons in Leadership in 7 Songs from the Women In Leadership Podcast with Angie Mezzetti Music is one of those things you can tap into in your head to change your mood. If you are in a tight spot, or in a new or difficult situation, you can galvanize yourself to face into it by […]
Align yourself with people who can help you Kelly Roach is a business coach from USA. She is a former NFL Cheerleader and has boundless energy when it comes to fitness. She also has her own podcast and has published a book called Unstoppable about the 9 Principles of Unlimited Success in Business and In […]
Listening, Learning and Calling it Out Leading woman Carol Andrews of BNY Mellon and the 30% Club Lead in Ireland, is the guest in this episode of the Women In Leadership podcast and she is a leading light when it comes to advancing diversity and inclusion. As well as being a savvy business person, she […]
The WoW effect in the workplace requires relentless focus, relentless measurement. These are some of the key pieces of advice Clodagh Hughes of Motive8 has for organisations who want to do more than pay lip service to gender diversity in the workplace. “You need to do a diagnostic on your business first, to see how […]
Eimear Caslin says the business world is learning to work with women going on maternity leave and particularly coming back from leave and she sees how this is working to the employers’ advantage. “I look back over my career and I have had three maternity leaves over a career of 23 years, so two years […]
Why We Can’t Wait for Change It is going to take 180 years if we want to wait for gender parity, according to Sandra Healy Head of Diversity and Inclusion at DCU. Sandra is one of many women in leadership in Ireland today who is not prepared to sit around and wait for that change […]
Women For Election wants to get #morewomen into Irish politics. Bridging the gap, getting women from ‘being busy in the background’ to ‘going on the ticket’ when it comes to election to office, is what women for election is all about. In the podcast Niamh Gallagher co-founder of the organisation with Michelle O’Donnell Keating, talks […]
Suzanne Anderson of ‘Mysterial Woman’ is the guest on this podcast. Suzanne is a psychologist, executive leadership coach international speaker and co-author of ‘The Way of The Mysterial Woman: Upgrading How You Live, Love and Lead.’ She believes we have to break free of limiting beliefs that we as women are somehow ‘not enough’ and […]
Jennifer Davis is the guest on this episode of the Women In Leadership Podcast. She is the Chief Marketing Officer with Planar a multi million dollar technology enterprise based in Portland Oregan in the United States which was recently taken over by a Chinese company Leyard so her experience of that transition is enlightening as is […]
Gillian Harford of AIB on Diversity Initiatives Gillian Harford heads up human resources planning and strategy in AIB and this is an exciting week for her as several initiatives she has been working on to improve equality and fairness in the bank are launched. Top of the list is two weeks paid paternity leave for […]
‘What we treasure we measure,’ is the motto of Dr Anne Laure Humbert who is a senior research fellow at the Global Centre for Gender and Leadership at Cranfield University in England. She is an expert statistician who analyses complex sets of data to see what is really going on and to analyse the effectiveness […]
Prof Beate Sjåfjell brings a whole new insight in the real meaning of ‘sustainability’. A Professor of Corporate Law and an expert on sustainability and business law at University of Oslo she is fearless when it comes to taking on big issues and corporate lobbyists. In this podcast she talks about the role of diversity […]
Dame Ann Dowling, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge, recently addressed a gathering in Trinity College Dublin on the topic of ‘Diversity and inclusion: a value proposition for engineering’, on the invitation of WiSER Women in Science and Engineering Research. She spoke to Angie Mezzetti […]
Most women are great at advocating for others but when it comes to advocating for themselves that is a different story. So says Esther Weinberg of the Mindlight Organisation. Esther talks about strategies for women who want to have successful careers in any organisation but especially in the Media, film and TV industries on the […]
“We’ve done Diversity the wrong way round, we started with the women,” according to Sandra Ondraschek-Norris Senior Director with Catalyst. “Women know the issues. A lot of companies have unwittingly created groups whose approach to diversity is to bring groups of women together to tell women what they already know.” Catalyst is a leading nonprofit organisation whose […]
Monique Svazlian Tallon joins us from the US to talk about what she has learned about leading gracefully. It is the title of her new book ‘Leading Gracefully – a woman’s guide to confident, authentic and effective leadership’. It claims to offer a new roadmap for women who want to take their career to the […]
Mary Carroll is Vice Chair of WITS Ireland -Women in Technology and Science. Mary is a mechanical engineer now working with companies to improve their diversity policies and training especially in the area of unconscious bias. Companies need to get the best from their workforce and there is a battle on to retain good women she […]
Margot Slattery CEO of Sodexo in Ireland says Letting Go of your expectations of yourself and opening yourself up to the unexpected is one of her three pieces of career advice to both women and men. “When you let go of your expectations of what you think you are going to be and how it […]
Women are much more ‘purpose oriented’ in work by about 10% according to a survey by Arthur Woods of Imperative. “Women are really driving the conversation that work is more than about a paycheck and a promotion”, work can be a source of fulfilment and work can be a means of helping other people. In […]
DUWGA is the Dublin University Women Graduates Association (Trinity College). Last Autumn DUWGA under the Presidency of Marion Courtney McKillen hosted the 2015 Irish Federation IrFUW Annual Conference. The DUWGA AGM is on this Saturday 23rd January in Trinity so we thought we would share one of a series of short interviews here to reflect on […]
Professor Nancy Hopkins of MIT visited WiSER at TCD to talk about ‘Stemming the Leaky Pipeline The MIT approach’. She had some valuable recommendations based on MIT’s experience in redressing gender imbalance which you can hear in this interview. One of the things she said was that the problems faced by women in science and academia will […]
Independent Consultant Veronika Hucke from Germany talks about how women’s networks can work to improve employee engagement. Veronika was a guest speaker at Women Empowerment Forum in Brussels 2015. Veronika is currently researching women’s networks and you can read more about her and her work on this website www.di-strategy.com Veronika is also on twitter at https://twitter.com/HuckeV
Lynda Barnes is the Managing Director of 360 Search in Baggot Street in Dublin and they are a specialist recruitment company who work and focus on senior appointments in life and pensions, general insurance, reinsurance, property and captive markets. I first met Lynda a few weeks ago when she was a guest speaker at a Connect […]
Petronela Zainuddin of Good Morning Creativity is a woman on a mission to awaken the innate creativity in us all that tends to get stifled particularly in the workplace. She does workshops for companies and conferences and several of her exercises will literally get you thinking outside the box. In this news podcast she talks […]
There’s Something About Catherine Catherine Guy is the only woman to head up one of Ireland’s Top Ten law firms. She is not the first and won’t be the last but she is unique at the moment. ByrneWallace has almost 50:50 female to male ratio though all its leadership teams and Catherine believes that this […]
Women In Leadership at# FEWomen15 Brussels met Paola Ottonello Policy and Communications Assistant, Gender Equality in Sport, European Commission In this short podcast Paola talks about the EU Commission’s Policy The 4 Stategic Actions on Gender Equality Main areas of action Decision Making How there is a need to get more women in key positions on […]
Louise Glennon is Women In Leadership Officer with the National Women’s Council of Ireland. In this episode of the podcast she says we need to get ‘game changers’ those women in existing leadership positions to leverage their position and to show that the issue of quotas and targets for gender equality in leadership roles is […]
“You have to want a sense of adventure, the Naval Service needs well qualified technical people.” It is obvious just be listening to her that Lieutenant Commander Mary Elizabeth Lane of the Irish Naval Service loves getting up in the morning and going to work. “It is a challenging responsible interesting job you won’t find […]
Brid Horan is on the Steering Committee of 30% Club Ireland. She is a non executive director at FBD and DCU and is Former Deputy CEO of the ESB (the Electricity Supply Board) and has had an impressive career which she talks about in the podcast. She has always been an advocate for women and […]
Vivienne Jupp is Chairman of CIE and is also on several other boards including the Irish Hospice Foundation. She has had a terrific career with Accenture and was the first woman director in Accenture in Europe before going on to hold a global role. Vivienne is never afraid to ask the awkward question whether it […]
