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When people request to join my High Achieving Introverted Women Facebook group, I ask them what their biggest challenges are as leaders. We analysed responses and identified the top 7 challenges that they said they faced.

The key to being impactful in the boardroom is to be a leader of influence. Mastering these challenges moves you towards leading with confidence, influence, and impact.

The challenges are not in any specific order, and this week I address how to deal with number one. Over the coming months I will address the other six.

Showing your true identity at work was the topic of conversation recently and is something that frequently comes up in coaching. In this episode I talk about whether introverted women find it challenging to show their true identity at work. I explore some of the barriers that prevent them from doing so, and look at the consequences when they don't.

Do introverted women find it challenging to bring show their true identity at work? What do you think? Take the poll on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6854382676816773120/ and see what other people think.

Janice Sutherland shares her story of making history when she became the first female CEO in the Telecoms Sector in Antigua and Barbuda. She talks about both the internal challenges and the external ones, and offers tips and advice on how women can navigate their careers as executive leaders.

About Janice Sutherland

Janice Sutherland is Founder and CEO of the award winning leadership and career development consultancy This Woman Can. Janice's professional career has spanned over 25 years of leadership with prestigious multinationals in the UK and Caribbean and she made history when she became the first female CEO in the Telecoms Sector in her ancestral home of Antigua and Barbuda, where she is also the Chair of the Caribbean Women in Leadership Antigua & Barbuda Chapter. Her passion lies in: 

• Consulting with organizations to support them in developing their female leadership resource. 

• Supporting women in developing the confidence, presence and influence to create career advancing strategies to navigate the Board room and beyond. 

She is the author of international best-seller This Woman Can - The no bullsh*t guide for women who lead and host of the This Woman Can Podcast, sharing the career journeys of Caribbean and Diaspora women.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamjanicesutherland

This episode's discussion is about the importance of sales. It's not just about pitching, it's about understanding the other person and matching their needs to your solutions. And as a leader, being able to sell yourself, your team, and your business when necessary. 

Whether you are selling a product or a service, selling an idea to the board, or selling yourself at an interview, listen to get techniques that will help you to influence and sell. 

About Justin Leigh

Justin is not only the Founder of Focus4Growth. A Sales & Leadership Training Company specialising in B2B sales environments, but bestselling author of INSPIRE, INFLUENCE, SELL (Master the psychology, skills and systems of the world’s best sales teams).  

Justin has trained thousands of sales professionals throughout his career in amazing companies like 3M, Align Technology, W&H, Septodont, Vitality, Odeon and many more. He’s the British Dental Industry Association's preferred Sales Trainer and is invited to speak for many business organisations including the Association of Professional Sales & The Institute of Directors. Justin works with some of the fastest growing businesses in the world, they do things differently. His mission is to share those differences with our clients, so they can become the market leaders in their field and make a positive impact in the world.

Take his scorecard and discover your sales and influencing score, AND receive a free copy of his best selling book at https://salesacceleration.scoreapp.com/.

Zaheer Anwari is a UK & US stocks, commodities and currency investor and in this episode we discuss the lack of financial literacy amongst so many people. Zaheer busts the myths and dispels the fears about investing, sharing great tips and advice so you can take the fear out of investing in your future.

About Zaheer Anwari

Co-founder of Sublime Trading. Mentors busy professionals to compound their wealth investing in stocks, commodities & currencies between now and retirement. Leading the revolution in simplifying good financial literacy.

Find out if you are on track to retire wealthy at https://sublimetrading.scoreapp.com/

Find out more about Zaheer and Sublime Trading at https://www.sublimetrading.io/

Whilst social anxiety and introversion are not synonymous with each other, if you are an introverted leader and experience social anxiety when put in the spotlight, it can be stressful and worrying. The more senior you get as a leader, the more get put in the spotlight Your role automatically thrusts you into the spotlight and you are expected to perform in front of your audience.

But not all leaders are comfortable being in the spotlight, neither do they want to hog it. They are the face of their organisation or department and because it is a requirement of their role, they push themselves to do it. In this episode I talk about how to manage social anxiety when you are put in the spotlight.

One of the misconceptions about introversion is that we don't like public speaking, but many extroverts don't like public speaking either. Whilst some introverts don't like public speaking, some of us love it. One of the reasons why so many people hate public speaking is fear. It was reported in the Times some years ago that a fear of public speaking was found to be a more pressing concern than death according to a ranking of society's most pervasive fears.

If you can get over your fear of public speaking it makes it a much more enjoyable experience. And with public speaking being a requirement of so many leaders roles, in this episode I share tips on how you can move from fear to fabulous with it and keep your audience engaged.

Mildred Talabi specialises in helping female coaches leverage the power of LinkedIn to build profitable coaching businesses.  She lives in the UK with her husband and two daughters and in this week's episode discusses how she bounced back from a major setback (brain tumour) to thrive as a professional business woman.

About Mildred Talabi

As an accomplished entrepreneur with a varied career background in Journalism, PR and Communications, Mildred specialises in helping female coaches leverage the power of LinkedIn to build profitable coaching businesses. She is also a 4x published author and the founder of Visible Women Tribe - a global membership community for women business owners. 

Find out more at www.mildredtalabi.com

If you want to get your next promotion or make a career move, develop your plan, position yourself, and place yourself in the best possible position to get the role. In this episode I share some ways in which you can do this

Chris Delaney, has a lisp and is dyslexic. He is also an introvert.  On leaving school and entering the job market, Chris saw himself as a loser, suffering from both anxiety and low self-esteem.   Now a published author, hypnotherapist and interview coach, in this episode he shares his personal story, discusses unconscious bias and how employers behaviour effects the applicant.  He also talks about what makes a high scoring interview answer, overcoming interview anxiety and your interview identity.

About Chris Delaney

Founder of Employment King.  Chris is a hypnotherapist, interview coach and published author (latest release: 'What is your Interview Identity'). With many years experience, his mission is to help job applicants succeed in their careers by making it easy to pass a job interview; securing the ideal job, increase their salary and work in a career sector they are passionate about.

https://www.employmentking.co.uk/