Have you asked yourself why despite great HR Diversity and Inclusion practices, workplaces look alike and senior management positions are not very diverse. Or have you ever wondered - How unconscious biases are dampening the spirit of diversity?Insights you will get from the episode:What are unconscious biases?What are some typical unconscious biases around women of color?What challenges exist as a result of unconscious biases around women of color and how can one overcome them?1 Key advice for women of color, what can they do in situations of discrimination?What can people around do to build more inclusive cultures? How can you be a lever for change?About Advita PatelAdvita Patel is the co-founder of A Leader Like Me, a global platform that helps women of colour progress further into leadership roles. She is a specialist in internal communications, and Chartered PR practitioner. In 2018 the Northern Power Women movement named her as one of their future leaders.Website: https://www.commsrebel.comA community to help women of colour: https://aleaderlikeme.com

Is your organisation pivoting in this time of social, economic and health crisis. While this might be strategic for your company, you definitely don’t want to make this particular mistake. Key points from this episode:With the increase in competition, pivoting your business as become if not essential quite essential to the survival of many companies.Technically pivoting requires investments in information technology, marketing, and logistics but as as much as this is needed, Mindset has been the biggest game changer.People who allow fear to run them find themselves freezing unable to respond to the needs of the crisis.While people are reinventing themselves and their organisations are gaining momentum in a new direction, so the question is what do they do differently ?Listen to this short episode to find out what are those simple things you can do and the 1 biggest mistake to avoid.

It is sometimes hard to know how to lead in tough times. What should my leadership look like? What are some simple things I can do during the social, economic and health crisis that we are going through with COVID 19. Valerie Rocoplan CEO & Founder of Talentis gives us insights on what leadership can look like in changing times. What insights you will get from this episode:If leadership is not about status, knowledge and hierarchy anymore and if leadership is about helping people to decide, then what must be done to build that environment? What challenges do leaders face in complex times?The 5 key elements that can help you as a leader wade through times of social, economic and health crisis.How to best manage your energy energy?How expressing emotions moves you into action?What is the one thing you can do to feel less fear and more connected to people?About Valerie RocoplanValérie Rocoplan founded Talentis in 2003. Talentis is an international company, specialised in executive coaching and leadership development. Valérie Rocoplan is on a mission to develop leaders and optimise collective intelligence. She manages a team of 85 coaches as partners in more than 23 different countries worldwide.Website: https://www.talentis-coach.comValérie Rocoplan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/talentis/ 

Are you fatigued by your job and want to make a change in your career and just don’t know how. Andy Storch is a talent development specialist and if you wanna to know how to make that shift listen in. It is time to S.T.O.P drifting along in your career, especially if you don’t find meaning and purpose in what you do.Is your job supporting the greater vision of where you want to get to in your life?Does it get you excited to get to work?Is your job connected with your purpose?You get the picture it is important to own your career and own your life.What insights you will get from this episode:What does it mean to take ownership of your career?How do you take ownership?Taking ownership might look scary, but there are ways to not let norms of society run you and take away what you truly want to do. Ideas to get started on how you can shift your career. How to let go of the fear of judgement from others?What are those tough conversations you need to have?What kind of support can help you move ahead?About Andy StorchAndy Storch is a talent development specialist. He is the host of 2 podcasts. Author of the forthcoming book Own Your Career Own Your Life.Website: https://andystorch.comTop 5 common mistakes people make in the career world: http://ownyourcareerownyourlife.com/mistakes

We all make sense of the world differently and make meaning differently. As we move into complexity that becomes a greater challenge. Do you question the way decisions are taken in complex times? What might be going wrong in the way decisions are made in meetings?I have been observing senior executive meetings and providing feedback and I found Keith Johnston from Cultivating Leadership has some great insights on this topic.What insights you will get from this episode:Typical mistakes executives make in meetings.How early convergence and polite agreements get in the way of solving problems in complex times?Why letting go of – “holding on to rightness” – is so important?What assumptions get in the way of running a great meeting?Key ingredients of running meetings in complex times.About Keith JohnstonKeith Johnston co-authored with Jennifer Garvey Berger Simple Habits for Complex Times. Leadership development was the focus of his PhD. He has explored the capability for complexity required of senior leaders and how this might be enabled.Email: keith@cultivatingleadership.co.nzWebsite: https://www.cultivatingleadership.com

Are you a shy introvert? Are you struggling to get your voice out there and be heard?Bob tells us we often see mediocre people standing up and taking all the attention and amazing people hiding their light and it is completely irrational. So how do you get yourself out there and not let your shy nature limit you?"We don't change being shy and or being an introvert, but we can learn to get our of our comfort zone and not let that limit our potential." - Bob GentleInsights you will get from this episode: 20"What is it to be shy and how does it steal your potential?How can you break down the barriers of being shy and or being an introvert and get out of your comfort zone?How does comparing yourself with others help or hinder you?How can you change the way you are so that you can stand in the spotlight?

 Do you wake at 3am and worry what if they find out that "I'm a fraud" or "I am not as good as people think?"Then maybe it is imposter syndrome that you are suffering from. You don't have to pretend anymore to be someone. You can end imposter syndrome and be yourself.The four signs of Imposter Syndrome for Clare are:PerfectionismProcrastinationProject ParalysisPeople pleasingWe can’t rationalize with our logical mind, coz if you do that you will only end of wresting with those thoughts giving it more attention and you will end up making it worse. One can’t use mindset level tools to deal with identity level issues.What Insights you will get from this episode:What is imposter syndrome?How does it manifest in the workplace?How can you identify if someone at work is suffering from imposter syndrome?How to men and women cope with it? What’s the difference?Why does changing negative self-talk with positive ones does not work?How do develop natural resilience?What can you do in 60sec to turn them over?About Clare JoseClare Josa is a professional speaker and the author of seven books.She has specialized in helping business leaders and high achievers to clear the self-sabotaging thoughts and change behaviors caused by Imposter Syndrome. The stuff that goes deeper than mindset or confidence, but which gets in the way of you making the difference you really want to make in the world.She is the author of eight books. Her latest book: Ditching Imposter Syndromewas published in 2019.Get your ABC technique:http://www.clarejosa.com/meetmypotential/ 

This is a true story of an entrepreneur who set up his business and made millions in a short time, got published in Forbes as a digital health thought leader, owned a Ferrari, and then everything came tumbling down the point that his business partner went to prison and he had 2M in personal debt.One of the most painful moments for Dr. Tamer Shahin was to call his business partner’s pregnant wife and tell her that her husband won’t be home for the delivery.Tamer then rebuilt success in digital health, won a UK national innovation award, and gave a TEDx talk. He has learnt from extraordinary success and catastrophic adversity! Today, he is on a mission to help business owners and entrepreneurs learn those precious lessons.What insights you will get from this episode:What failure feels like? How to break out of your cocoon and not be a hermit when failure hits you.How can we embrace failure and move forward?How can we as leaders, bear responsibility for ourselves, as well as others during times of failure?We can’t engineer our way out of failure, but we can talk about how we feel when things don’t work out.What is needed for “Rising Strong”? How do we turn the page and become resilient?Simple tips to raise up again with resilience after a failure.About Dr. Tamer ShahinDr. Tamer Shahin went from academia, to advising country ministers on national policy and multi-billion-dollar productivity programs, founding and growing multi-seven figure businesses, living large (then not so large) in Dubai, and taking a global health start up stratospheric. He’s advised corporate titans, authored several textbooks, taught at universities around the world, spoken at TEDx, and published in Forbes as a digital health thought leader.Tamer has gone through rags to riches and (seriously) back again. He’s designed learning at every level — and learned the hard way that capacity often starts with belief, and that success often starts with failure.Tamer now enjoys being a serial entrepreneur, investor, business coach and mentor. Currently the founder and CEO of CEO Entrepreneur, he transforms entrepreneurs into CEO’s and small businesses into global companies; without stress or overwhelm. CEO Entrepreneur: https://ceoentrepreneur.comTake the 3-min super intelligent business clarity quiz and get a free customised report on your single biggest business challenge: https://ceoentrepreneur.com/quiz

Top Insights from this episode:Success is not just about achieving goals at work, it’s important to be fulfilled, which comes from inspiring others and creating impact around you.Find one person who supports your cause and helps you in the organization. One sponsor is enough to help you embark on your path.If you struggle to get heard in a meeting, here are 4 tips that Virginie share:Use humor to shift the energy of the meeting.Talk about the elephants in the room.Put the hard topics on the tableBuild alliances with people you work with.To create gender balance in your teams, set clear rules and boundaries on the values that are important. Every time it is violated, speak about it until becomes a practice. Say it in a non-blaming non-judging way, and don’t be silent about it.To ensure you are involved in decision making ensureYou are building the necessary and right bilateral relationships.Don’t be shy!Don’t care much how others perceive you.Having an executive presence is about the ability toHave the real quality conversations.Make quality decisions.Give space to people to move forward with autonomy.To grow stronger with debates.How do we manage time as an individual, mother, wife and businesswomen?Accept all the different part of you.It may not be possible to have a 24hr period where you are efficient in all areas of your life. Accept that there will be periods where you will be more at work and then there will be time for kids and other things.Being just in one area of life can be boring.Final Advice:Surround yourself with people who can give you candid feedback, i.e. give you both the tough and good feedback.Connections: Build true meaningful relationships and stay connected. About Virginie BoucinhaVirginie Boucinha works at the headquarters of Sanofi,Paris, as the Global Head of Transformation. At Sanofi, she was previously the Chief of staff CEO Office. She is mother of 4 children. Virginie Boucinha is icon of intelligence, strength and humbleness. A strong women leader from whom we can learn a lot. She has also lived abroad in Morocco and India.

What insights will you get from this episode ?If you are an executive and wondering how to setup your brand image in the industry, do not miss this episode.Decide how you want to be perceived and remembered.In a world of competition where business cards and job titles are not sufficient currencies, building a reputation brand is becoming critical for most executives.Learn what is reputation branding? How can you create this currency for yourself both internally in your organization and outside?How can your reputation brand be aligned with that of your company?Mary Henderson shares valuable content here. Don’t miss this episode!About Mary HendersonMary Henderson Coaches, Consultants & Corporate Professionals commercialise their PersonalBrand to stand out, become an authority in their niche or industry and build a sustainable & profitable digital business.Links: Apply for a free consultation with her: https://www.maryhendersoncoaching.com/applyHer website: www.maryhendersoncoaching.com