Standing In Her Power

Dorothy Woods, private chef in LA and UK, trained at Le Cordon Bleu and author of Cook Together. Dorothy's book Cook Together is all about strengthening family bonds through cooking together. Healthy Dot - https://www.healthydot.com/ Cook Together - https://www.healthydot.com/store Follow Penny Sophocleous Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pennysophocleous Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

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. Follow Penny Sophocleous Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pennysophocleous Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennysophocleous/

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. https://claredownham.com/ Follow Penny Sophocleous Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pennysophocleous Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennysophocleous/

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 a...

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 recent...

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 e...

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, st...

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 t...

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 helpi...

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 respo...

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,...