The Rising Leader

Rising Women in Leadership with Helen Appleby

Jan 25, 2023

32:13

Helen Appleby is an executive coach who helps senior leaders and high-performing women deliver powerful results, grow their leadership styles, build high-performing teams, and take their careers to the next level. She was VP and Global Business Leader for Respiratory Health at GlaxoSmithKline until she founded the Powerful Growth Group in 2015. In her book, The Unwritten Rules of Women’s Leadership, Helen shares the lessons she wishes she had learned while rising through the ranks.

Helen joins me today to discuss the obstacles she encountered while rising as a leader and how she overcame them. She reveals why navigating the corporate world is different for women. She recounts her early challenges with handling conflict and shares coping tools. She explains the importance of knowing your own triggers and self-soothing methods and points out how the loneliness of leadership is underestimated. Helen also offers advice on seeking mentors and sponsors in an organization and highlights why community plays a vital role for women leaders.

“Being a woman in a male-dominated, competitive organization can be very lonely; being a woman in a community with other women in the same journey is soul-filling.” - Helen Appleby

This week on The Rising Leader Podcast:

● Helen’s background and what life was like for her before she became a global business leader

● Learning to take conflict less personally and stand in the discomfort

● Getting mentors and sponsors when the people above you don’t look like you

● What sponsors are and how to find and cultivate your relationships with them

● Stages in the leadership journey and how mentorship helps the mentor

● Stacking the deck and the process of stakeholder management

● Characteristics CEOs look for in their trusted advisors

● Why Helen developed a course based on The Unwritten Rules of Women’s Leadership

Resources Mentioned:

● The Unwritten Rules Quiz

Connect with Helen Appleby:

● Helen Appleby Coaching

● Book: The Unwritten Rules of Leadership: Step Into Your Power, Write Your Own Rules, and Succeed in Your Career

● The Unwritten Rules Podcast

● Helen Appleby Coaching on Instagram

● Helen Appleby Coaching on Facebook

● Helen Appleby on LinkedIn

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