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?

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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 and 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?

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?

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.

Are you a shy introvert? Are you struggling to get your voice out there and be heard?

Bob Gentle 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 Gentle

Insights 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:

• I'm a fraud.

• I am not as good as people think I am.

• I am not.....

• I am not....

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 Josa are:

• Perfectionism

• Procrastination

• Project Paralysis

• People pleasing

She says we can’t rationalize with our logical mind, because if you do that you will only end up wresting with those thoughts and give it more attention and you will end up making it worse. One can’t use mindset level tools to deal with identity level issues.

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 do men and women cope with it? What’s the difference?

• Why does changing negative self-talk with positive ones not work?

• How can you develop natural resilience?

• What can you do in 60sec to turn down imposter thoughts?

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 to 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.

If you are women in a leadership position in corporates this episode is for you. Virginie Boucinha works at the headquarters of Sanofi,Paris, as the Global Head of Transformation.

She shares her keys principles of success. In this episode she answers questions like: How can you get heard in a meeting? How can you get involved in decision making? How do you balance time as a woman in different areas of your life?

She closes the episode with a strong advice to surround yourself with people who will give you candid feedback and she insists on building and maintaining connections.