Women leaders can experience backlash when they display assertive behaviour, paying a social penalty on the back of gender stereotypes. But there are tools to mitigate this while we change the system.

The most generous and reassuring thing you can do for your team as a leader is to act with real authority as a leader. Professor Deborah Gruenfeld takes us through how to do that in her book Acting with Power.

Conversation with Professor Mara Olekans on managing ourselves as women leaders to become successful negotiators.

In this episode I talk to Dame Inga Beale, most recently CEO of Lloyds of London, about her leadership, her learning and her legacy.

In this episode I speak to Dr Raina Brands of London Business School on the power of networking and making invisible career ladders more visible. With great advice on navigating the Think Manager /Think Male stereotype for individual women leaders, and advice for organisations on how to ensure recruitment processes don’t disadvantage women aspiring to executive roles.

Building a business and a leadership self when you believe change is inevitable, but suffering is optional.

I talk with the inspiring Geeta Sidhu-Robb CEO OF Nosh Detox. We explore what women leaders are capable of doing, and becoming, especially when you have no choice.

I talk to Professor Natalia Karelaia at INSEAD about her fascinating research on leadership and how the link between confidence and influence plays out for women leaders.

From village school in Kenya, when no girl had gone to university, to Oxford PhD in Aerospace engineering. Gladys Ngetich tells her inspiring story.

I talk to Dame Stephanie Shirley about how she built her IT business from dining room table to become Xansa plc. Great wisdom and insight into how to make a difference in every aspect of your life and career.

I speak to Dr Caroline Kisia Executive Director of Action Africa Help International about her leadership career, the importance of mind-set and energy, and courage being at the heart of great leadership.