Women Emerging Podcast

‘An accidental leader’ this is how Folawe Omikunle describes herself. Avoiding leadership right through her education, jumping into jobs because she fell in love with their cause and blind to their leadership challenges, leadership was never on her agenda. But Folawe does now accept that even if she still doesn’t think of herself as a leader, the people around her do, so “I have to accept it”. Loo...

Music was everywhere in Bellagio. Sung by all, composed by Anna Kuk , played by Katya Guryeva , shared by Hinemoa Elder and Ana Luz Porzecanski and Dr Ayesha Mian , danced to by Aparna Uppaluri. Why? Surely we were there for the serious business of capturing - as our #expedition drew to a close - an ‘approach to leadership that resonates with women’. We did. And it called for music to bring us tog...

women leaders need female friendships if they are to survive and thrive.

Mothering teenagers is generally considered to be a nightmare. Samia and Saba make it look easier. And show us how it makes us better leaders. Saba even admits to reading many leadership books that persuaded her that she had to change but that it was only when her teenage sons said the same thing to her that she actually did. Of mothering she says “I thought I was there to teach my sons but r...

 If you have to conceal how much mothering has changed you when you return to work after your first baby, all the extraordinary learning and growing could get squandered.

If you are the conductor of a famous orchestra who must accept leading from the front, even if it’s hard to be so visible. And then you throw your whole body into your leadership. As it suggests and invites your team to give not just with their hands but their heads and hearts too. I hope i express the glorious nature of Martyna Pastuszka interview this week. She was complemented by Anna Kuk who l...

These two women in Brazil are amazing. I just had to divert the podcast and speak to expedition member Camila Pontual who knows and loves them both about what they did last week. 24 hours after the building had been trashed, when many leaders were hiding in their bunkers, Anielle Franco and Sonia Guajajara joined forces and became ministers in the new government. I wanted to both celebrate them an...

Yes,  the devil still wears Prada . This second new year episode speaking to young women who are leaders makes this very clear. My generation has to wake up and make inter generational work between women given the urgent modern problems we face.

This episode is the first of our two episodes where young women, globally, are sharing their views on how they think about leadership. Olivia Grobocopatel, Temilade Salami, Enaya Noor Mian, Karimot Odebode and Meenakshi Arundhati Banerjee are some of our fantastic young women to be interviewed. Enaya Noor Mian says its “very very hard”, Olivia Grobocopatel that its “about being clear and optimisti...

I have tried to answer all your #Expedition questions in one episode! What have I myself learnt about #leadership while leading an expedition about leadership? Of the joy of working with other women. About creating the right culture. Of listening ferociously. About digging myself out when I got lost. About leading real diversity. About holding to the task. And if keeping agile and playful. What ha...

The language of leadership is dominated by English. This episode reveals just what a flaw this is. 12 members of the expedition translate the definition of leadership we have adopted for the expedition into their mother tongues. Or rather they try to. Selvie Jusman admits her translation doesn’t really mean anything and falls back in love with her own #bahai. Uma Chatterjee reveals that none of us...

In this weeks episode we speak to Nichol Bradford, Founder/ Partner, NIREMIA Collective and Leila Toplic, Head of Technologies Initiative, NetHope who make the case for Artificial Intelligence and explain how we can lead AI as Women. We then speak to Paula Langton, Partner, Campbell Lutyens who discusses the current world financial order and actually just how little it would take to shift it a lit...

The world is filled with complex and challenging issues, this weeks episode looks at the context in which the Women Emerging Expedition is taking place. By discussing some of difficult and traumatic situations leaders must lead through, along with helpful tips and insights from some incredible female leaders across the world. First we speak to Francesca Cavallo, an Italian bestselling author, entr...

This episode is dedicated to our virtual expedition to find an approach to Leadership that resonates with women. But as opposed to being focused on the women taking part expedition we speak to some of the women around the expedition. supporting the journey in different ways. DEEPALI KHANNA, Vice President, The Rockefeller Foundation who has been instrumental in bringing the 24 women together. THEO...

In this weeks episode we speak to Leila Toplic, Head of Technologies Initiative, NetHope and Julienne Lusenge, Directrice du Fond, Les femmes Congolaises and they give us a number of tips and insights on how to lead a fight. Covering everything from the self-care necessary to leading in the fight and dealing with raw anger.

In this weeks episode Julia delves into the topic of women's place in society and how that looks in different countries and cultures across the world. Anna Afeyan Governor, Board of Trustees UWC Dilijan College, Alfonsina Penaloza, Director, Programs, Global & Latin America, Co-Impact, Anila Dehart, Managing, Director, Global Talent, Deloitte & Selvie Jusman, Finance Professional all of wh...

How do you have difficult conversations as a Leader? This week we dive into how we have those tough conversations, especially around performance. We speak to Dr Monica Medina, Literacy Consultant, International & US schools and Karen Lord, Entrepreneurial Publisher, KADELO GROUP LIMITED/Author, St. Martin's Press, who discuss how we can make those hard conversations more comfortable, how to pr...

In this weeks episode we speak to Catherine Ruggles, Director of Software Engineering at Google and Nosipho Damasane. Who discuss rising up in the current meritocratic systems as someone from a marginalised group, being the ONLY woman, women in STEM and making successful challenges of systems.

How do you cope as a leader when a traumatic situation occurs? On this weeks episode we speak to Erin Robinson, Head of Secondary, Atlanda International School and Elsa Donohue, Head of School, Vientiane International School. They discuss the traumatic situations that occurred in their relative schools, how they dealt with it, and give us some wonderful leadership insights for how we too can lead...

On this weeks episode we speak to Jennifer Stein, a freelance Producer/ Director and Viviana Tellas, a Theatre Director and Curator about leadership & Creativity within the arts. Both share a number of tips and insights they have learnt along their journeys as women in the Arts and how to lead as a Director.

On this weeks episode Melissa Berman, Founding President & CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisor and Uma Chatterjee, Founder & Director of Sanjog India continue the conversation what it takes to lead movements. Story telling and setting the pace stand out as two essential skills for leaders of movements in this episode and as usual there is learning for us all. Be it for Leaders of great...

What are the leadership traits of women who lead movements? In this weeks episode we sit down with two incredible women who lead important movements. Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women and Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords, discuss what they believe to be the key leadership t...

Midwives provide stunning leadership learning. Totally fascinating. About how they lead when they are “ in the room”. How they use (or choose not to use) their power, listen hard, build trust,  cope with stress. And about how their voice disappears when they step out of the room and into the wider world. They may well have perfected listening themselves “in the room” but out of it no one list...

This weeks episode looks at what we can we learn from Leaders who were successful male leaders who have transitioned. One of our expedition members, Yvette Hopkins, thought that the insight of what trans women have experienced as being both male and female in the workplace would be fascinating and she was right! Antonia Belcher speaks about transitioning into being her authentic self how that auth...

 Dipping into the expedition a third of the way through. Aparna Uppaluri and Ana Luz Porzecanski have repositioned privilege as responsibility and power as energy. Aparna has got me through my struggles on the link between motherhood and leadership with the word motherness. Ana Luz has brought love into the equation, and she is playing with ideas around cycles in leadership, cyclical being a conc...