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 […]

Julie O Neill a proud Wexford woman, is former Secretary General of The Department of Transport in Ireland and a board member of both Ryanair and Permanent TSB. Julie is a terrific example of authentic leadership and of leading in a way that values feminine characteristics like emotional intelligence without being too ‘girly’. Julie learned to […]

Females make great leaders and operators. So says Niamh Bushnell the new and first Dublin Commissioner for Startups. Female entrepreneurs in Dublin she says are very calm and collected, very focused, knowledgable about their business and they are taking risks. She started her first company in her mid twenties. Niamh says she would have loved to […]

Julietta N.Fierro is an astrophysicist and full time researcher at Mexico’s National University UNAM. In this podcast she talks about her life and her science work in outreach and has plenty of advice for women especially women scientists. I spoke to her after her talk when she spoke to women scientists last week in Trinity […]

Bullying and Harassment advice from Margaret Considine of EQUITA Consulting ‘Jawdroppers‘ are those comments that women sometimes face in the workplace. They are usually offensive and totally inappropriate in the workplace or learning environment. The reaction of the person on the receiving end is often one of stunned shock at the audacity and rudeness of […]

Unconscious Bias is something we all have, yes even you! Unconscious Bias is our way of categorising people automatically without our even thinking about it. For example we may think of men as leaders in traditional male roles and of women in traditional female caring roles, and we ascribe certain attributes to women as typically […]

Danuta Gray features in this podcast from Women In Leadership. It was recorded in 2014 as part of the ‘Leading Women’ Radio Documentary funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Her advice to both men and women on developing their careers and stretching yourself outside your comfort zone when it comes to leadership, is very […]