Jodie Graver works at Locker & Riley an award-winning fibrous plaster specialist based in the UK. Jodie shares her journey of her young career as an architecture student and CAD designer to now training to be a construction manager.

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Clare Downham is the Queen of Calm. Clare shares her experience from being a Head Teacher to her journey of becoming a transformation coach to access calm, clarity and contentment.
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Nadine Rose is a consultant and researcher.  Her most recent work is in the field of social sustainability with a particular focus on women working at the bottom global supply chains in Africa. She has over twenty years of working in business and social responsibility having led a CSR programme with corporate partners in the Middle East. Recently Nadine has had her own business sourcing textiles and ceramics from women in Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Turkey. She has worked with street children in Mexico and Ethiopia. Nadine has lived in France, Iran, Belgium, New Zealand, Oman and the UAE as well as the UK.

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Beatriz Araújo is Senior Counsel, Head of Corporate Governance at Baker & McKenzie the world’s fourth largest law firm. She is based in the Firm's London office and has served on its Board/Management committee. She has also served on the Firm's global Board, the Executive Committee. She advises clients on Corporate Governance and ESG. 

She is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and was recently promoted to Co-Chair, Global Future Council on the Future of Responsible Investing at the World Economic Forum.

She was awarded Euromoney’s European Women in Business Law award - Best in Corporate Governance 2018.  As well as the Acritas Star 2020 and 2021 and Thomson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyer 2022.

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Paula Holland is a partner at Cooley, a global law firm. Paula Holland has more than 20 years’ experience of executive compensation and equity incentives in the UK, the US and internationally.

In this episode, listen to how Paula has navigated her career from Oxford to becoming a partner and growing a team. We talk about her background and family, to the challenges of working in a male dominated environment, how she is championing women in her work place, and female artists and her relationship with her daughter.

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Sally Kleyn is a highly accomplished business coach, working with executives at prestigious organisations. She has also been the designer of Leadership, Coaching, and Communications development programmes for PwC.

With a background in psychology and counselling, Sally Kleyn and I discuss the unconscious programming that women suffer from and how they can change it to experience greater freedom, strength and confidence. The conversation provides deep insights into women's psychologies with definite action points to make a real difference in your own and other's lives.

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Briege Leahy is the current CEO of the Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce. In this interview, we discuss her career, the choices she made, and very importantly the attitude that she took as a woman operating in various Board level positions. As a ‘baby boomer’ woman, she experienced the challenges of breaking into a man’s world, standing up for herself, asking for what she wanted, and then taking the entrepreneurial risks of starting her own business. She succeeded in strongly growing her company and then selling it. Her approach in going after what she wanted demonstrates the belief in herself and straightforward approach that can aid anyone suffering from ‘imposter syndrome’ – she just does not go there!

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Sandra D'Souza is the CEO and Founder of Ellect, a platform for businesses to achieve diversity, equality and inclusion

Sandra is a gender equality advocate with a passion for entrepreneurship especially social entrepreneurship

She has a 20 year background in all aspects of business from finance, operations, technology, marketing and sales.

She is based in Sydney, Australia and is focused on helping businesses to achieve their ESG Goals in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Mary Mackintosh is the Global General Counsel of Watson Farley Williams, an international law firm.

Mary has had a distinguished career as a solicitor, achieving partnership with Freeths, a UK law firm, then Head of Corporate Legal Services, in-house lawyer at Travis Perkins plc a UK FTSE listed company. She then moved to be the General Counsel of WLG Gowlings, a multi-national law firm with responsibilities for the firms UK LLP jurisdictions in China, Singapore, Dubai, Germany, France and UK. She has recently moved to take on an even bigger role, as Global General Counsel at Watson Farley William.

Lara Bezerra is the Chief Purpose Officer, founder of consultancy WorkCoherence.

Lara has had an extended and brilliant career in the pharmaceutical industry. She begun work at Pfizer, then Bayer in Germany, then promoted to country manager of Hungary, then Mexico. Her responsibilities were increased to Head of Sales and Marketing Operations for the whole of Latin America, then head of Venezuela, overseeing all 3 areas, Bayer Material Science, Bayer Cropscience and Bayer Healthcare. She was head-hunted by Roche in Venezuela as General Manager, then moved to India, as Managing Director (or her preferred title Chief Purpose Officer,) where citizen well-being was their main objective. As a woman in the industry, her 26 year experience in the field has enabled her to identify unique approaches to leadership and management.

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